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How to use cittern in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word cittern? Here are some examples.

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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.
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.
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.
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.
Seán's cittern accompaniment brings out both delicate counterpoint and chordal energy from this rare and beautiful instrument.
Other variations on the cittern are the bandore, a bass instrument.
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.
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.
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.
Their instruments are rarely heard on Broadway: sackbuts, rauschpfeifes, shawms, lutes, theorbo, pipe and tabor, cittern, field drum, hurdy-gurdy.
The Cittern, a Renaissance instrument that may be a descendent of the citole, is equipped with metal strings.
Examples from Classical Literature
From every barber shop came the twang of cittern or guitar, while song burst from the lips of every tankard bearer.
Robinson gives instructions for learning to play the cittern and for reading the tablature.
The last development of the cittern before its disappearance was the addition of keys.
A cittern or lute was part of the appointments of a barbers shop of the period.
The instrument here introduced is the cittern, played with or without a plectrum or quill.
The instrument, on which he doubtless accompanied his mournful love-songs, is a form of cittern.
Constantijn Huygens declares that he learnt to play the barbiton in a few weeks, but took two years to learn the cittern.
In 1990 he joined Wolfstone where he played guitar, cittern, whistle, mandola and pipes as well as providing lead vocals.
The cittern of the middle ages was also to be found in oval shape.
The cittern has retained the following characteristics of the archetype.
Sylvain Barou, who is considered as one of the best flute players of his generation, will be joined by Ronan Pellen on the cittern and Julien Stevenin on the double bass.
Crucible perform a mix of English traditional songs, combining voices with instruments including English bagpipes, fiddles, melodeons, guitars and the cittern.
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