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Moorish women in Arab clothes playing chess [Petzold 1986:80]. European woman in headscarf, playing an oud or lute. Alfonso X was the King of Castile, León and Galicia from 30 May 1252 until his death in 1284. Book is kept at the St. Lorenze del Escorial, Madrid.
Ronn McFarlane (born 1953) is an American lutenist and composer, most notable as an interpreter of Renaissance music. [1] [2] He formerly taught lute at the Peabody Conservatory, and has recorded many albums as a solo performer and in collaboration with others, including the groups Ayreheart and The Baltimore Consort, and as a guest artist for countless other groups.
The so-called Capirola Lutebook is one of the most important sources of early 16th century Italian lute music. It is an illuminated manuscript which comprises the entire surviving output of Vincenzo Capirola. The Capirola Lutebook was compiled in 1520 by Vitale, a pupil of Capirola. The compositions included probably date from around 1517.
The Britannica Lute. Wilson studied the lute at the Royal College of Music in London with Diana Poulton.He has performed widely in Great Britain and abroad, as a soloist and with other prominent musicians and ensembles, [1] such as Michael Chance, Fretwork and The Hilliard Ensemble.
The qinqin (秦 琴; pinyin: qínqín; Vietnamese: Đàn sến [1]) is a plucked Chinese lute. It was originally manufactured with a wooden body, a slender fretted neck, and three strings. [2] Its body can be round, [3] hexagonal (with rounded sides), or octagonal. Often, only two strings were used, as in certain regional silk-and-bamboo ...
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A lady playing a lute in an interior. The Master of the Female Half-Lengths (sometimes referred to as Master of the Half-Lengths) [1] is the notname given to a painter, or more likely a group of painters of a workshop, active in the Low Countries in the early sixteenth century.