10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GITTERN»
Discover the use of
gittern in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
gittern and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Lute in Britain: A History of the Instrument and Its Music
Two other important plucked instruments that appear in the Cantigas miniatures
are the gittern and citole. Laurence Wright has conclusively shown that the term '
gittern' should be applied to the small plucked instrument with a rounded back ...
2
A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music
Cittern Closely related to the lute in form and playing technique is the gittern. This
instrument— according to the number of surviving depictions and taking Europe
as a whole — was more common than its larger relative in the thirteenth and ...
3
Music from the Age of Shakespeare: A Cultural History
[i.e., wooden and ugly]11 Gittern The Gittern (sometimes spelled Gittron) most
closely resembles a guitar, an instrument that did not come into England until
after the Elizabethan era. Like a guitar, the gittern was a fretted instrument, with ...
Suzanne Lord, David Brinkman,
2003
4
The Musical Sounds of Medieval French Cities: Players, ...
It was popular not only among minstrels, but also among amateur musicians, and
particularly for informal music making. Unlike many other soft instruments,
multiple references to the gittern have been identified in French city records, and
they ...
5
Performance Practice: A Dictionary-guide for Musicians
Giovanni da Cascia may be represented in the Squarcialupi Codex playing a
portative. (See *Italian trecento polyphony, *musica ficta, *tuning and
temperament.) Gittern ( l2th-l4th c.). Plucked string instrument with gut strings and
a flat back, ...
Roland John Jackson,
2005
6
Music as Concept and Practice in the Late Middle Ages
Its short string length indicates that it was relatively high pitched, capable mostly
of playing cantus parts (if in fact it ever participated in the performance of
composed polyphony) or treble melodies.140 Notices about the virtuoso gittern
player ...
Reinhard Strohm, Bonnie J. Blackburn,
2001
7
The British Museum A-Z Companion
A. medieval. Gittern. England, late 13th-early 14th century ad Gittern England c.
1280-1330 AD MLA1963,10-2,1 h. 76 cm (30 in) Purchased with the aid of the
Pilgrim Trust and the National Art Collections Fund ...
8
A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music
(Meanwhile, Wright has demonstrated that the holly-leaf–shaped instrument we
had been calling the gittern was actually the citole,ancestor of the Renaissance
cittern;see later in this chapter.) The early gittern shares many characteristics with
...
Jeffery T. Kite-Powell,
2007
9
Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
I know not, fair Sir," said the girl, slowly recovering herself ; " but my father is poor
; and I had heard ftst,tn these holiday occasions, one who had some slight siill on
the gittern might win a few groats from the crawly of the bystanders. So I stole ...
William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone,
1843
10
Ancient songs and ballads from the reign of King Henry the ...
Sum tyme," says Langham, “ I foote it with dauncing: noow with my gittern, and
els with my cittern, then at the virgynalz : ye kno nothing cums amisse to mee:
then carroll I up a song withall :" &c. Letter signifying the queenz entertainment at
K ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GITTERN»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
gittern is used in the context of the following news items.
Roger Rees im Alter von 71 Jahren verstorben
2001 beehrte der Schauspieler "Oz - Hölle hinter Gittern", im Jahr 2002 war Rees gleichsam als King Pheron im Abenteuerspektakel "The ... «TV Wunschliste, Jul 15»
Artur Trofimov - Auf der Flucht vor Interpol
Drei Monate sitzt er in der Wiener Justizanstalt Josefstadt hinter Gittern, ehe er gegen 75.000 Euro Kaution freikommt. Die Asylbehörde prüft ... «NEWS.at, Jul 15»
Ägypten nimmt Journalisten ins Visier
... der Journalisten (CPJ) festgestellt, dass Ägypten derzeit die höchste Zahl an Medienvertretern hinter Gittern hat, die je erhoben wurde. Am 1. «derStandard.at, Jul 15»
Eine Welle der Hilfsbereitschaft
Ihre mit Handys gemachten Videos zeigen überfüllte Lager und Kinder hinter Gittern. Bedroht werden sie auch von rechtsextremen Gruppen: ... «Tages-Anzeiger Online, Jul 15»
Beihilfe zum Völkermord
Ein Aufenthalt hinter Gittern fördert die Gedächtnisleistung enorm."[5] Vergangene Woche hat sich nun auch der bayerische Ministerpräsident ... «german-foreign-policy.com, Jul 15»
James Franco stiehlt Jonah Hill seine Identität
Longo landet daraufhin hinter Gittern und bekommt anschließend Besuch vom wahren Finkel, der nun versucht hinter das Geheimnis dieses ... «MOVIEPILOT NEWS, Jun 15»
One Direction: Bombast-Spektakel in Wien
Eingepfercht wie Sardinen in ein fast fünf Kilometer langes Labyrinth aus Zäunen, Absperrbändern und Sicherheits-Gittern rund um das ... «oe24.at, Jun 15»
Vor den Europaspielen in Baku: Bundestag will …
Mehr als 100 Regimegegner, Journalisten und Bürgerrechtler sitzen in Aserbaidschan hinter Gittern. Die Abgeordneten der Koalition wollen ... «tagesspiegel, Jun 15»
Ausgeschlagene Zähne, Gehirnerschütterungen, innere Blutungen
... den Aufzug der Rechtsextremen. Die Polizei hatte materialstark aufgefahren, um die Aufzugsstrecke der Neonazis mit Gittern abzuschirmen. «ZEIT ONLINE, May 15»
Swaledale Festival happy to retain the ability to surprise
The two-week festival opens on May 23 with an opportunity to hear strange instruments from the Middle Ages, including gittern, shawm, ... «Darlington and Stockton Times, Apr 15»