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- # 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 ...27 KB (4,136 words) - 07:23, 5 April 2024
- 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 ...24 KB (3,833 words) - 01:39, 8 December 2022
- 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 ...48 KB (7,186 words) - 19:00, 23 March 2024
- 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 ...56 KB (8,917 words) - 22:11, 25 November 2023
- Traditional instruments include an hourglass-shaped four-stringed lute called the tidinit and the woman's kora-like ardin. Percussion instruments ...28 KB (4,027 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- The star Spica (sometimes called Lute Bearer), and the constellation which roughly corresponded to the modern Virgo, appeared at a time of year ...32 KB (5,200 words) - 06:08, 8 March 2024
- 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 ...36 KB (5,655 words) - 04:07, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...32 KB (4,718 words) - 17:40, 9 March 2024
- at many different endeavors, including lute playing and painting."Eric W. Weisstein, [http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Galileo ...38 KB (5,454 words) - 00:21, 12 April 2023
- hurdy gurdy, harpsichord, bass viol, lute, Baroque violin, and baroque guitar. Baroque music shares with Renaissance music a heavy use of polyphony ...39 KB (5,985 words) - 10:49, 20 September 2023
- 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 ...37 KB (6,079 words) - 04:23, 10 December 2022
- 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 ...41 KB (6,269 words) - 18:41, 11 January 2023
- such as the kora, a 21-stringed harp/lute, and the balafon, a xylophone with gourd resonators. ===Communal dances=== Traditionally, dance in Africa ...41 KB (6,461 words) - 06:06, 16 June 2023
- cello, oboe, flute, viola d'amore, recorder, lute, or mandolin. About forty concertos are for two instruments and strings, and about thirty are ...38 KB (5,736 words) - 05:45, 11 August 2023
- The remaining nomads of Spain (Gitanos and Mercheros like El Lute) were especially affected. In 1954, homosexuality, pedophilia, and prostitution ...40 KB (6,158 words) - 04:53, 9 April 2024
- to the accompaniment of the bandura, kobza (lute) or lira. There is an archaic ... Other common traditional instruments include: the torban (bass lute ...72 KB (10,102 words) - 01:29, 3 May 2023
- Except for modern and contemporary visual arts, Lao artistic traditions developed around religion and the political and social circumstances ...42 KB (6,594 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- 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 ...38 KB (5,603 words) - 05:46, 26 August 2023
- include the komuz (a three-stringed lute), oz-komuz (mouth harp), the chopo choor (clay wind instrument), and the kuiak (a four-stringed instrument ...39 KB (5,879 words) - 16:28, 21 March 2024
- for an instrument called the rubabah, while the lute-like oud, tanbarah (string instrument) and habban (bagpipe) are widespread. Wedding songs include ...41 KB (6,203 words) - 15:18, 22 March 2024
- 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
