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Kinnor (Hebrew: כִּנּוֹר kīnnōr) is an ancient Israelite musical instrument in the yoke lutes family, the first one to be mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.. Its exact identification is unclear, but in the modern day it is generally translated as "harp" or "lyre", [2]: 440 and associated with a type of lyre depicted in Israelite imagery, particularly the Bar Kokhba coins.
"My Lord Chamberlain, His Galliard (an invention for two to play upon one lute)" is a piece by John Dowland for the lute. It was printed in his First Booke of Songes or Ayres (London, 1597). The Lord Chamberlain at the time of publication was George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon who with his wife Elizabeth was the dedicatee of the First Book .
In 2008 and 2015 he gave solo concerts in Beirut, Lebanon at the "Palais de L'UNESCO" under the aegis of the Middle Eastern Bible Society [Lebanon], directed by Dr. Michel Bassous. He was also one of the guests soloists invited by the Armenian government and Garik Israelian for the six hour long '80 years Anniversary Tribute-Concert' in Yerevan ...
The pierced lute had a neck made from a stick that pierced the body (as in the ancient Egyptian long-neck lutes, and the modern African gunbrī [7]). [8] The long lute had an attached neck, and included the sitar, tanbur and tar: the dutār had two strings, setār three strings, čārtār four strings, pančtār five strings. [5] [6]
The meaning of the Akkadian word tigidlû used to be unknown, but it was revealed by a word list from Emar that there was a three-stringed tigidlû instrument, which suggests a lute, and the reference to a "traveling tigidlû" in this list fits well with a lute.
Of Kings and Prophets is an American television drama based on the Biblical Books of Samuel that premiered on ABC in 2016. [1] The series follows an ensemble of characters including Saul and David, the successive kings of Israel, their families, and their political rivals.
Joseph Daniel Turner Mawle (born 21 March 1974) is an English actor. Mawle is best known for his roles as Jesus Christ in The Passion (2008), Benjen Stark in Game of Thrones (2011–2017), Pete in Shell (2012), Firebrace in Birdsong (2012), Thomas Lincoln in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012), Detective Inspector Jedediah Shine in Ripper Street (2013-2016), Odysseus in Troy: Fall of a City ...
Lutes are stringed musical instruments that include a body and "a neck which serves both as a handle and as a means of stretching the strings beyond the body". [1]The lute family includes not only short-necked plucked lutes such as the lute, oud, pipa, guitar, citole, gittern, mandore, rubab, and gambus and long-necked plucked lutes such as banjo, tanbura, bağlama, bouzouki, veena, theorbo ...