Search Results - "History of lute-family instruments

The long necked lute's eternal return : mythology, morphology, iconography of the Tanbūr Lute family from Ancient Mesopotamia to Ottoman Albania by Charest, Jeffrey Paul

“…Musical instruments exist as both material and imaginal cultural objects. This Thesis explores the intersection of these modes of being as pertaining to long necked lutes…”
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Chordophone Culture in Two Early Modern Societies: "A Pipa-Vihuela" Duet by MILLWARD, JAMES A.

“… development of plucked stringed instruments in sixteenth-century Spain and Ming China. An examination of the interrelationship of vihuela, lute, and guitarra, on the one…”
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Lute and theorbo in vocal music in 18th-century Dresden: A performance practice study by Burris, Timothy Allen

“… An examination of twenty-six surviving theorbo parts suggests strongly that, of all the instruments of the lute family, the theorbo was the most…”
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Rhetoric and the performance of seventeenth-century English continuo song by Pauley, Scott Mitchell

“…The close relationship among the arts of rhetoric, poetry, and music in seventeenth-century England led to the formation of a declamatory song repertoire of…”
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THE EARLY Banjo by Shaw, Robert, Szego, Peter

“… in America, and a number of these ancient instruments form the lute family are still played in Africa today…”
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Continuo for lutenists and guitarists: A tutor and music theory supplement by Stearns, Roland Huffman

“… today which de facto excludes them through musical exercises beyond the history and capacity of their instruments…”
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