Search results for "Lute" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Ancient Egypt as a general historical term broadly refers to the civilization of the Nile Valley between the First Cataract and the mouths of ...44 KB (6,818 words) - 19:13, 26 July 2023
- drums (most widely used), bells, musical bow, lute, flute, and trumpet. African dances are an important mode of communication, and dancers use ...46 KB (6,657 words) - 06:01, 16 June 2023
- strings placed from the viewer's eye to the lute correspond to the rays of light traveling from the same points.]] As art students learn ...52 KB (7,802 words) - 17:57, 26 March 2023
- reed and wind instruments which include the Scottish Lute and the Irish flute, which are incorporated into many traditional and contemporary Celtic songs ...49 KB (7,613 words) - 23:47, 3 December 2023
- music, especially the three-stringed shortneck lute played with a wooden plectrum. This is called the rubab-i pamiri. Other instruments include the ...43 KB (6,221 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
- Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America, bordering the Pacific Ocean. The third-largest country in South ...46 KB (6,833 words) - 23:21, 26 August 2023
- his retirement gave him to read and to play his lute. A few months after his return home, Zhang was appointed to serve under the Imperial Secretariat ...53 KB (7,780 words) - 16:31, 19 January 2024
- or with instruments such as the two-stringed lute called dutar. After independence, efforts were made to revive the dastan tradition, to promote ...47 KB (6,838 words) - 00:25, 3 May 2023
- walnut, along with the Kashmiri saz, a long-necked lute. Sufiana Kalam has been popular in Kashmir since arriving from Iran in the fifteenth century ...52 KB (7,879 words) - 07:24, 5 October 2022
- poetry accompanied with a rabab, a stringed lute-type instrument, and reed pipe is popular. Villagers have special songs for births, weddings ...50 KB (7,586 words) - 20:00, 4 May 2024
- oud, an ancient stringed instrument similar to the lute; small drums held in the lap; and flutes. Damascus has long been one of the Arab world ...53 KB (7,689 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
- thumb|right|200px|An oud, a short-neck fret-less lute-type, pear-shaped stringed instrument]] Iraqi music has a slow tempo, and features predominantly ...56 KB (8,476 words) - 13:04, 6 March 2024
- pastoral tales sung to the accompaniment of a lute or zither. The earliest surviving document in Romanian is a letter written in 1521, sent by Neacşu ...64 KB (9,341 words) - 04:57, 16 December 2022
- Turkish origin. It derives from the ancient Greek lute known as the pandoura, a kind of guitar, clearly visible in ancient statues, especially female ...73 KB (10,722 words) - 18:19, 27 January 2023
- and was focused around instruments including the lute. Ludwig van Beethoven spent the better part of his life in Vienna. Austria's current ...90 KB (13,119 words) - 17:56, 22 August 2023
- include the bagpipe (caramusa), 16-stringed lute (cetera), mandolin, fife (pifana) and the diatonic accordion (urganettu). The most popular form ...109 KB (16,195 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
