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It is also an accompanying instrument in vocal works. The lute player either improvises ("realizes") a chordal accompaniment based on the figured bass part, or plays a written-out accompaniment (both music notation and tablature ("tab") are used for lute). As a small instrument, the lute produces a relatively quiet sound. The player of a lute ...
The lautenwerck (also spelled lautenwerk), alternatively called lute-harpsichord (lute-clavier) or keyboard lute, is a European keyboard instrument of the Baroque period. It is similar to a harpsichord , but with gut (sometimes nylon ) rather than metal strings (except for the 4-foot register on some instruments), producing a mellow tone.
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 ...
The instrument was popular in the 18th century and there are various surviving instruments and manuscript sources (see below), mainly from Germany. The mandora often had only 6 courses, resulting in a simpler technique than the complex and difficult 13-course lute , so was more suitable for amateur players.
The instrument has a gourd body or soundbox and is about 75 centimeters long. [3] The komo (also 2 strings) is equivalent to the garaya. [3] It has a soundbox made from a gourd (instead of wood) and is about 75 centimeters long. [3] The instruments have traditionally been played to make "praise" songs for hunters, accompanied by gourd rattles.
The instrument uses a calabash gourd as the body of the instrument, covered by skin, with a stick for a neck. [1] [2] Modern instrument have had the gourd replaced by a can, such as a large sardine can. [1] [3] The neck on the Kontigi has "metal disk surrounded by small rings" which make noise as the instrument is moved or played. [2]
Yoke lutes, commonly called lyres, are a class of string instruments, subfamily of lutes, indicated with the codes 321.21 and 321.22 in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification. Description [ edit ]
The first mention of a theorbo in France was in 1637, and by the 1660s it had replaced the 10-course lute as the most popular accompanying instrument. [3] The theorbo was a very important continuo instrument in the French court and multiple French theorbo continuo tutors (method books) were published by Delair (1690), Campion (1716 and 1730 ...