The sitter was a musical lady who sang and played the cittern, which she holds, and the viola da gamba, the instrument hanging in the background. |
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It will feature a true English consort of flute, violin, viols, cittern, lute, bandore and voices performing music by William Byrd, Thomas Morley, John Dowland and others. |
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One of the commonest consorts in the Elizabethan period was the combination of treble viol or violin, flute or recorder, bass viol, lute, cittern, and bandora. |
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A few hours before his own recital, Mr. O'Dette played cittern and lute in a program of Celtic music by the gamba virtuoso Jordi Savall. |
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Seán's cittern accompaniment brings out both delicate counterpoint and chordal energy from this rare and beautiful instrument. |
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Other variations on the cittern are the bandore, a bass instrument. |
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Driven by passion, he has also crafted a modern version of the cetera, a traditional Corsican cittern, thus contributing to its revival in today's music. |
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His extensive research into the repertoire and playing techniques of the renaissance cittern has earned him a reputation as one of the worlds leading experts on this unduly neglected instrument. |
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I wanted to create my own modern version of this instrument, to contribute to the renaissance of the 17th-century Corsican cittern in contemporary music, both in Corsica and outside the island. |
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Their instruments are rarely heard on Broadway: sackbuts, rauschpfeifes, shawms, lutes, theorbo, pipe and tabor, cittern, field drum, hurdy-gurdy. |
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The Cittern, a Renaissance instrument that may be a descendent of the citole, is equipped with metal strings. |
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