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 272
re characteristic instead of the former monotonousconsonances. England was the birthplace of the crout ; France invented the rote, andItaly the viole ; Germany originated the gigue* the name of which mayperhaps be derived from the similarity presented by the shape of the instru-ment to the thigh of… … Fig. 200.—Rebec, of the Sixteenth Century. Fig-. 201.—Long Monochord played on with a Bow. From Willemin. Fifteenth Century. (MS. of Froissait, in the Bibl. Imp., Paris.) a kind of prolongation of the sounding-board. The gigue, which bore aconsiderable resemblance to the modern mandolin, was an…
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