Definition of Gittern. Meaning of Gittern. Synonyms of Gittern

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Definition of Gittern

Gittern
Gittern Git"tern, v. i. To play on gittern. --Milton.
Gittern
Gittern Git"tern, n. [OE. giterne, OF. guiterne, ultimately from same source as E. guitar. See Guitar, and cf. Cittern.] An instrument like a guitar. ``Harps, lutes, and giternes.' --Chaucer.

Meaning of Gittern from wikipedia

- The gittern was a relatively small gut-strung, round-backed instrument that first appeared in literature and pictorial representation during the 13th...
- 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...
- in Spain in the early 16th century, deriving from the guitarra latina. Gitterns (small, plucked guitars), were the first small, guitar-like instruments...
- 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...
- Men Behind Bars (German: Menschen hinter Gittern) is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Pál Fejös and starring Heinrich George, Gustav Diessl...
- the concepts needed to quickly switch to the newly arriving lutes and gitterns. Two possible descendant instruments are the Portuguese guitar and the...
- ancestral instruments of similar construction and range, the mandore and gittern, were used across Europe (including Spain, Italy, England, France, Germany...
- 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...
- Cry for Help or Cry for Help Behind Bars (German: Notschrei hinter Gittern) is a 1928 German silent drama film directed by Franz Hofer and starring Hans...
- modern guitars have appeared in Scottish folk music for centuries. The Gittern, an ancestor to the modern guitar, featured in medieval Scottish appearing...