Search results for "Lute" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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 ...51 KB (7,778 words) - 19:17, 4 June 2024
