The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 263
est upon the shoulder of the E E MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. musician (Fig. 180). The psaltery disappeared in tte tenth century andgave place to the cithern (cithara), a name which had been at first applied toail kinds of stringed instruments. The shape of the cithern, which in thedays of St. Jérôme… … Fig. i8 -Psalter} to produce a prolongea Sound. Ninth Century.(MS. in the Bibl. Imp., Paris.) séquence of thèse local transformations, it became the nabuhim, the c/iorus,and the salfcrion or psalferion (which latter must not be confoimded with thepsaltery, a primary derivative of the lyre). The…
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