cittern


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a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings

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Steve Turner is a singer of traditional and contemporary songs, accompanying them with concertina, cittern, mandolin and banjo.
These asked you--and the Queen herself asked you--to play the cittern. (94) Adelard recalls how in response a young child moved his hands and fingers to the music.
He'll be joined by his tried and trusted band featuring Guy Fletcher (keyboards), Richard Bennett (guitar), Jim Cox (piano), Mike McGoldrick (flute), John McCusker (fiddle and cittern), Glenn Worf (bass), and Ian Thomas (drums).
Many of the traditional oerings date back through the ages, with the likes of the stringed cittern back in demand for the rst time since its heyday in the English barber shops of the Renaissance.
"300 Gems of Irish Music For All Instruments" is a widely varied, carefully sampled collection of familiar Irish tunes for traditional Irish instruments, including fiddle, flute, tin whistle, uilleann pipes, harp, button accordion, piano accordion, melodeon, concertina, harmonica, tenor banjo, mandolin, bouzouki, cittern, guitar and hammer dulcimer.
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.
In 1990 he joined Wolfstone where he played guitar, cittern, whistle, mandola and pipes as well as providing lead vocals.
The concert features Patrick Ball performing the Celtic harp and spoken word; Lisa Lynne on the Celtic harp, Irish bouzouki and mandolin; and Aryeh Frankfurter on Celtic harp, cittern and nyckelharpa.
He sings himself and plays the cittern. (2) The chapter Oxenstierna is referring to is about the dead Knight Lundholm, a well-known brandy distiller in Stockholm; "Ofver branvins-brannaren Lundholm".
Cambises, for instance, demonstrates the instrumental proficiency of the London players' itinerant predecessors: 'On Lute and Cittern there to play a heavenly harmony'; (56) whilst another play from the same period, Common Conditions, releases Players Three and Six for a musical entry.
The band will consist of Richard Bennett on guitar, Guy Fletcher on keyboards, Jim Cox on piano, John McCusker on violin and cittern, Mike McGoldrick on flute, whistle and pipes, Glenn Worf on bass and Ian Thomas on drums.
These are people absorbed in their art, like Belfast-born Cardwell himself, who sings and plays Uilleann pipes, cittern, guitar and whistles with the Backroom Band.
An illustration of King David carrying a harp and cittern in the Utrecht psalter, which was illustrated in the ninth century in France, is the earliest known representation of a harp in manuscript art.
Sadly none of his jigs survive although music parts for a cittern (a small wire-strung banjo-like instrument), recorder and bass viol for a Tarltons Jigge are preserved in manuscript in Cambridge University Library, which suggests that accompaniments could be rich and varied.