- The
cittern or
cithren (Fr. cistre, It. cetra, Ger. Cister, Sp. cistro, cedra, cítola) is a
stringed instrument dating from the Renaissance.
Modern scholars...
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disturb their repose,
disturb not the mystery: If thou hear the
sounds of
cithern or psaltery, It is I, dear Country, who, a song t'you intone. And when...
- gittron, giterninge, giterne. John Playford's A
Booke of New
Lessons for the
Cithern &
Gittern (published in
London in 1652) may
represent a
response to the...
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antiquity who were keen musicians.
Grave Socrates himself began to
learn the
cithern when an old man. Indeed, the
wisest ancient philosophers taught that the...
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Banquet (1651)
Catch that
Catch Can (1652) A
Booke of New
Lessons for the
Cithern &
Gittern (1652,
revised 1666 as Musick's
Delight on the Cithren) Musick's...
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Lewis and
Short translates classical Latin cithara as
English "cithara,
cithern, guitar, or lute". See Lewis,
Charlton T.; Short,
Charles (1879). "cithara"...
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haunted heaven. Thus, The
conscience is
converted into
palms Like
windy citherns,
hankering for hymns. We
agree in principle. That's clear. But take The...
- his
volume of
poems Tofes kinnor ve-'ugav ('Master of the Lyre and the
Cithern', Vienna, 1860), and
especially on his
Hebrew version of Faust, entitled...
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English court,
mentioning his
colleague Somers as a
fellow player of the
cithern, and
listing their mutual friends including Gregory Railton and William...
- Hall, London, (1874) The
Jewel Re****tion [when?] My Only Love (1880) The
Cithern Poems for
Recitation (1886) An
Unruly Spirit, V.F. White, London. (1890)...
