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around 1600. He taught and wrote music for lute, cittern, orpharion, bandora ... book, The Schoole of Musicke, a tutor for lute and other instruments. It ...

(a zither) and the gakubiwa (a short-necked lute) had been introduced in Japan ... * Gakubiwa, lute * Gakuso, zither of Chinese origin * Yamatogoto/Wagon ...

and mastered many instruments, including the lute, as well as the art of singing, writing poetry, and composition. Villani, in his chronicle, also ...

them to the accompaniment of the biwa (lute). The most widely read version ... four-stringed instrument reminiscent of the lute. Around 1240 the stories were ...

Being a musician as well, Francis played the lute or the violin frequently for the natives. He was noted for singing hymns to to the Virgin Mary before ...

is an orchestral piece based on Renaissance lute pieces by Simone Molinaro ... Suite No. 2 of 1924 is based on pieces for lute, archlute, and viol by Fabrizio ...

uniquely English ensemble of two viols, flute, lute, cittern and bandora, notably as published in 1599 in The First Booke of Consort Lessons, made by ...

was trained in music, to sing and play the lute. She died in childbirth four ... and play the harpsichord, clavichord, and lute, having been privately tutored ...

painting, and playing the guqin (lute), he warned his sons against ... painting, and playing the guqin (lute), he warned them against practicing ...

depth of his life-long admiration for Elizabethan lute songs. The theme of the work, John Dowland's Come, Heavy Sleep, emerges in complete form ...

* Lute (Europe) **Archlute **Theorbo * Lyre * Mandolin ** Mandola ... * Tar (lute) * Tea chest bass * Tiple (Puerto Rico) * Tiple (South America) ...

his lack of ceremony, and calmly played his lute as he awaited execution. Several ... postures, playing the qin (zither) or lute, savoring food or wine, or ...

(Arnold de Lantins), and songs for the lute and viol (Thomas Robinson ... the villanella, the villotta, and the lute song. Mixed forms such as ...

also appeared in this time period. The short lute, a pear-shaped form of a western instrument that spread through many cultures, came into use in ...

writings. Beside them stand a folding koto and lute. My bed on the ... on places he has visited or strums the lute. Depending on the season he ...

in playing the veena, an Indian form of lute). Venkatanatha was named Guru ... of Krishnabhatta, a veena (Indian form of lute) scholar, who had taught ...

Timbarū's home and played a melody on his lute constructed of beluva-wood, singing a love-song into which he wove themes about the Buddha and his ...

derived from the Turkish tanbûr, which is a long, lute-like instrument with no gourd resonating chamber. Both the tembûr and sehtar were used in pre ...

::And that simplest Lute, ::How by the desultory breeze caress'd, ::Like some coy maid half-yielding to her lover, ::It pours such sweet ...

drums, hoddu (a plucked skin-covered lute similar to a banjo), and riti or riiti (a one-string bowed instrument similar to a violin), in addition ...

teaching methods are simple but sound."--Lute Olsen, coach of the Arizona Wildcats. "Ralph Miller was one of the finest coaches in the ...

pot (Kamandalu), a mirror, the lotus flower, the lute (or vina), a drum (damaru), or a small parrot. When three-armed, two of Ardhanarisvara's ...

the many varieties of harp guitar and harp lute, while chordophones, belong ... ancient veena was a harp vice the modern lute-type instrument. Some Samudragupta ...

the qin is called The Lore of the Chinese Lute, the guqin is sometimes inaccurately ... ocarina), pipa (four-stringed pear-shaped lute), dizi (transverse bamboo ...

(conical oboe), đàn tỳ bà (pear-shaped lute with four strings), đàn ... is the dan nguyet or moon-shaped lute. The genre is famous for its ...

must be included, such as a harpsichord, organ, lute, theorbo, guitar, or harp. In addition, any number of instruments which play in the bass register ...

was accompanied by a four-string biwa (Japanese lute); after the introduction of the three-stringed, plucked samisen (or shamisen) from the Ryukyu ...

elliptical, violin-shaped, fish-shaped, and lute-back. *Courting Dulcimer: One unusual variant is the "courting dulcimer." This instrument ...

of the Moorish oud and the European lute. In favor of the latter view ... quot; or "citar" and the Arabic lute. *Flat-top (steel-string ...

right|300px|An oud, a short-neck fret-less lute-type, pear-shaped stringed ... Traditional instruments include: Dombra (lute), doyra (drum with jingles ...

*The Lute Player by Norah Lofts *Standard of Honor by Jack Whyte *Wyrd by Sue Gough * The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott en before = Eleanor of Aquitaine ...

musical instruments such as conch (shankh), lute (veena), flute (bansuri), ... It is performed with a tanpura (long-necked lute) and a pakhawaj (barrel-shaped ...

sexual exploitation of women. She also painted The Lute Player (with a female subject) in 1610. It was at this time that she also learned to write. ...

Chaozhou, Hakka and Shandong. The pipa, a kind of lute, believed to have been introduced from the Arabian Peninsula area during the sixth century and ...

For other uses see Conductor [[Image:full score.jpg|thumb|250px|A conductor's score and batons]] Conducting is the act of directing a musical ...

piano part imitates, at times, the sonorities of lute music. The culmination of his series of neo-classical works was the Second Orchestral Suite ...

The stringed instruments tar (skin-faced lute), the kamancha (skin-faced spike fiddle), the oud, originally barbat, and the saz (long necked ...

Stringed instruments in Azerbaijan include the tar (skin-faced lute ... Ashiqs are traveling bards who sing and play the saz, a form of lute ...

Banda Nawaz Gesudaraz. He had a unique tambur (lute) known as Moti Khan in his possession. The famous Persian poet laureate Zuhuri served as his court ...

ft. high, sitting upon a mat. Each one held either a lute, a guitar, a sheng or a yu (mouth-organs with free reeds). All were dressed in flowered silks ...

all dances except the gigues employ the French lute style brisé, sarabandes, and courantes frequently being variations on the allemande. The gigues ...

harder, recipe for the etching ground, using lute-makers' varnish rather than a wax-based formula. This enabled lines to be more deeply bitten ...

other keyboard works, BWV 995–1000 lute music, BWV 1001–1040 chamber ... a similar set for cello and another for lute. He wrote trio sonatas, solo ...

The Lute Platform in Hanyang was where the legendary musician Yu Boya is said to have played. Yu Boya played for the last time over the grave ...

*Sonatas for lute Friedrich Ludwig Aemilius Kunzen *Symphonies Leopold Kozeluch *Symphonies Franz Anton Rössler/Antonio Rosetti *Symphonies ...

interest in anything else. In addition to the lute, he also played the harpsichord and guitar. === The murders === In 1586, Gesualdo married his ...

Thomas Campion wrote lute songs. Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare helped popularize the sonnet. In France, La Pléiade ...

monks to the accompaniment of a melancholic Japanese lute. Significantly the warring sides were known by their colors: red for the Taira clan and white ...

the shape and playing techniques of the Lute (which centuries later evolved ... classical guitar) is a descendent from the lute. The first guitars are thought ...

to have derived from a West African skin-covered lute; such instruments (generally with four strings) are still played today in Senegal, Gambia, Mali ...

# Woman with a Lute near a Window (c. 1663) - Oil on canvas, 51,4 x 45,7 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York # Woman with a Pearl Necklace ...

In his early life he may have been a jeweler, a money-changer, or a lute-player who changed his interest from music to alchemy. Around the age ...

others such the erhu (alto fiddle or bowed lute) and pipa (pear-shaped plucked lute), many of which have later spread throughout East Asia and ...

chamber-pieces—The Musicians, The Lute Player, a tipsy Bacchus, an ... *The Lute Player *Boy Bitten by a Lizard *The Rest on the Flight into Egypt ...

Traditional instruments include an hourglass-shaped four-stringed lute called the tidinit and the woman's kora-like ardin. Percussion instruments ...

The star Spica (sometimes called Lute Bearer), and the constellation which roughly corresponded to the modern Virgo, appeared at a time of year ...

were similar to the modern guitar, such as the lute and mandolin. The hammered dulcimer, similar in structure to the psaltery and zither, was not ...

for twarab, as well as gabusi (a type of lute) and ndzendze (a box zither), and the msondo drum. The primitive oboe, the ndzumara, is now nearly ...

at many different endeavors, including lute playing and painting."Eric W. Weisstein, [http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Galileo ...

hurdy gurdy, harpsichord, bass viol, lute, Baroque violin, and baroque guitar. Baroque music shares with Renaissance music a heavy use of polyphony ...

in The Devil is Loose, Norah Lofts' The Lute-Player, and Jean Plaidy (Eleanor Hibbert)'s The Heart of the Lion. He is generally portrayed ...

fiddle. The second is the circular bodied plucked lute, the ruan. Performances are begun with rigorous beating of the daluo and xiaoluo, large and small ...

such as the kora, a 21-stringed harp/lute, and the balafon, a xylophone with gourd resonators. ===Communal dances=== Traditionally, dance in Africa ...

cello, oboe, flute, viola d'amore, recorder, lute, or mandolin. About forty concertos are for two instruments and strings, and about thirty are ...

The remaining nomads of Spain (Gitanos and Mercheros like El Lute) were especially affected. In 1954, homosexuality, pedophilia, and prostitution ...

to the accompaniment of the bandura, kobza (lute) or lira. There is an archaic ... Other common traditional instruments include: the torban (bass lute ...

Except for modern and contemporary visual arts, Lao artistic traditions developed around religion and the political and social circumstances ...

It is played on the oud (an ancestor of the lute) and the Rebaba (a one-stringed instrument). Sultan Hamid, Ali Bahar and Khalid al Shaikh (a ...

include the komuz (a three-stringed lute), oz-komuz (mouth harp), the chopo choor (clay wind instrument), and the kuiak (a four-stringed instrument ...

for an instrument called the rubabah, while the lute-like oud, tanbarah (string instrument) and habban (bagpipe) are widespread. Wedding songs include ...

Ancient Egypt as a general historical term broadly refers to the civilization of the Nile Valley between the First Cataract and the mouths of ...

drums (most widely used), bells, musical bow, lute, flute, and trumpet. African dances are an important mode of communication, and dancers use ...

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 ...

reed and wind instruments which include the Scottish Lute and the Irish flute, which are incorporated into many traditional and contemporary Celtic songs ...

music, especially the three-stringed shortneck lute played with a wooden plectrum. This is called the rubab-i pamiri. Other instruments include the ...

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America, bordering the Pacific Ocean. The third-largest country in South ...

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 ...

or with instruments such as the two-stringed lute called dutar. After independence, efforts were made to revive the dastan tradition, to promote ...

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 ...

poetry accompanied with a rabab, a stringed lute-type instrument, and reed pipe is popular. Villagers have special songs for births, weddings ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Turkish origin. It derives from the ancient Greek lute known as the pandoura, a kind of guitar, clearly visible in ancient statues, especially female ...

and was focused around instruments including the lute. Ludwig van Beethoven spent the better part of his life in Vienna. Austria's current ...

include the bagpipe (caramusa), 16-stringed lute (cetera), mandolin, fife (pifana) and the diatonic accordion (urganettu). The most popular form ...