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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- The evolution of classical guitars began with the influences of the gittern and vihuela in the 16th century and ended with the modern classical guitar...
- ancestral instruments of similar construction and range, the mandore and gittern, were used across Europe (including Spain, Italy, England, France, Germany...
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