- The
gittern was a
relatively small gut-strung, round-backed
instrument that
first appeared in
literature and
pictorial representation during the 13th...
- in
Spain in the
early 16th century,
deriving from the
guitarra latina.
Gitterns (small,
plucked guitars), were the
first small, guitar-like instruments...
-
Hinter Gittern – Der
Frauenknast (English: "Behind bars - The Women's Prison", in short: HG or HiGi) was a
German television series in the form of a soap...
- Mark
Wheeler (lute, cittern, and
gittern) and the
German born
Dominik Schneider (Renaissance
recorder and flute,
gittern, and vocals). With the addition...
- the
concepts needed to
quickly switch to the
newly arriving lutes and
gitterns. Two
possible descendant instruments are the
Portuguese guitar and the...
- pick. This
gittern or
citole with
curved sides is
illustrated in the
medieval musical text the
Cantigas de
Santa Maria,
alongside another gittern, the guitarra...
- short-necked
plucked lutes such as the lute, oud, pipa, guitar, citole,
gittern, mandore, rubab, and
gambus and long-necked
plucked lutes such as banjo...
-
French music books from the 1580s, but can be seen as a
development of the
gittern. In
Spain the
mandore was
called vandola.
Musicologist James Tyler said...
-
modern guitars have
appeared in
Scottish folk
music for centuries. The
Gittern, an
ancestor to the
modern guitar,
featured in
medieval Scottish appearing...
- from lutes, a
family of
instruments in Europe.
Predecessors include the
gittern and
mandore or
mandola in
Italy during the 17th and 18th centuries. There...
