The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 261
pon the shoulder of the E E 2 10 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. musician (Fig. 180). The psaltery disappeared in the tenth century andgave place to the cithern (cithara), a name which had been at first applied toall kinds of stringed instruments. The shape of the cithern, which in thedays of St. Jerome… … Fig. 180.—Psaltery to produce a prolonged sound. Ninth Century.(MS. in the Bibl. Imp., Paris.) sequence of these local transformations, it became the nabulum, the chorus,and the satterion or psalterion (which latter must not be confounded with thepsaltery, a primary derivative of the lyre). The…
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