The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 259
st upon the shoulder of the E E MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. musician (Fig. 180). The psaltery disappeared in tlie 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, if -Psalterj to produce a prolonged sound. Ninth Centurj-(MS. in the Bibl. Imp., Paris.) sequence of these local transformations, it became the nabulum, the chorus,and the salterion or 2)snIfenon (which latter must not be confounded with thepsaltery, a primary derivative of the lyre). The…
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