Search results for "Lute" - New World Encyclopedia
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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
