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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.
321: Instruments in which the strings run in a plane parallel to the sound table . For the western lute, see ... Pages in category "Lute family instruments"
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 ...
For other instruments also labelled "lutes", see Category:Lute family instruments. Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. C.
The clavichord is an example of a period instrument. In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written. Often performances by such musicians are said to be "on authentic instruments".
The masenqo (Amharic: ማሲንቆ; Tigrinya: ጭራ-ዋጣ (ዋጣ), also known as masinko, is a single-stringed bowed lute commonly found in the musical traditions of Eritrea and Ethiopia. [1] As with the krar, this instrument is used by Ethiopian minstrels called azmaris ("singer" in Amharic) . [2]
A kontigi or kuntigi is a one-stringed African lute played by the Hausa, Songhai and Djerma. [1] [2] A 3-string version teharden is used among the Tamashek. [2] The instrument is used in Hausa music, primarily in northern Nigeria and Niger, [1] and among Hausa minorities in Benin, Ghana, Burkina Faso and Cameroon.