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  2. Kithara - Wikipedia

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    The kithara (Greek: κιθάρα, romanized: kithára), Latinized as cithara, was an ancient Greek musical instrument in the yoke lutes family. It was a seven-stringed professional version of the lyre , which was regarded as a rustic, or folk instrument , appropriate for teaching music to beginners.

  3. Cythara - Wikipedia

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    The cythara is a wide group of stringed instruments of medieval and Renaissance Europe, including not only the lyre and harp but also necked, string instruments. [1] In fact, unless a medieval document gives an indication that it meant a necked instrument, then it likely was referring to a lyre.

  4. Lyre - Wikipedia

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    The earliest reference to the word "lyre" is the Mycenaean Greek ru-ra-ta-e, meaning "lyrists" and written in the Linear B script. [5] In classical Greek, the word "lyre" could either refer specifically to an amateur instrument, which is a smaller version of the professional cithara and eastern-Aegean barbiton, or "lyre" can refer generally to all three instruments as a family. [6]

  5. Erato - Wikipedia

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    Erato is the Muse of lyric poetry, particularly erotic poetry, and mimic imitation. In the Orphic hymn to the Muses, it is Erato who charms the sight. Since the Renaissance she has mostly been shown with a wreath of myrtle and roses, holding a lyre, or a small kithara, a musical instrument often associated with Apollo. [2]

  6. Yoke lutes - Wikipedia

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    Examples of yoke lutes are the lyre, the kithara, the barbiton, and the phorminx from Ancient Greece, and the biblical kinnor, all of which were strummed instruments, with the fingers dampening the unwanted notes in the chord.

  7. Delphic Hymns - Wikipedia

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    The strings Greek kithara (lyre) were not tuned in exactly the same way as those of a modern piano, and the intervals from C to D ♭ and from D ♭ to D were probably less than a modern semitone. [15] Therefore, in this section the music wanders around a small group of closely spaced notes.

  8. Kinnor - Wikipedia

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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.

  9. Citharode - Wikipedia

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    A kitharode (Latinized citharode) [a] [2] (Ancient Greek: κιθαρῳδός [kitʰarɔː'dós] and κιτηαρῳδός; [3] Latin: citharoedus) or citharist, [1] was a classical Greek professional performer (singer) of the cithara, as one who used the cithara to accompany their singing.