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Lute can refer generally to any plucked string instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back, or more specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes. The...
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The Renaissance Lute ... click on image for lute sound (144kb wav); or here for same in mp3 format; or here for a 400kb mpg movie ... I know the lute, Oft have I sung to thee: We are both out of tune... Go break this lute upon my coach's wheel as the last music that I e'er shall make; Not as my husband's gift, but my farewell...
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Located in London, they promote the lute and its music. ... Welcome to the Lute Society's website ... , now over 60 years old, exists to promote the lute and its music. Members get a new member's pack of 100 pages of lute music, a quarterly magazine, Lute News, with music supplement, an annual journal, The Lute,
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A History of the lute in Western Europe. ... A Brief History of the Lute; Part One ... The European lute derives both in name and form from the Arab instrument known as al ‘Ud, which means literally ‘the wood’ (either because it had a soundboard of wood as distinct from a parchment skin stretched over the body,
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The name lute refers both to an instrument family or type within the Sachs_Hornbostel classification system, and a specific instrument, the western European lute, whose rich history can be traced back to the Ud, an Arabic instrument used since at least the 6th century.
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This database contains information about printed tablatures for plucked-string instruments from 1500-1599. It is primarily concerned with bibliographical information relating to lute, vihuela, and guitar tablatures ... Sixteenth-Century Printed Tablatures for the Lute, Guitar, and Vihuela:
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on lute (musical instrument), in music, any plucked or bowed chordophone whose strings are parallel to its belly, or soundboard, and run along a distinct neck or pole. In this sense, instruments such as the Indian sitar are classified as lutes. ... Q&A with Lute Olson.
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lute n. A stringed instrument having a body shaped like a pear sliced lengthwise and a neck with a fretted fingerboard that is usually bent just ... The earliest surviving music specifically for the lute dates from the late 15th century. Most of the early repertory, apart from song accompaniments,
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History of the lute and its current revival by Arthur Robb. ... The ancestor of the European lute is the north African and middle eastern musical instrument, the ud, (also spelled oud). The ud resembles the European lute and has four pairs of strings which are played with a plectrum.
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