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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 31

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XXI.—75- 594 ANCIENT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. | May, It is a great contrast to turn from the wild,plaintive melodies of American Indians to thetide of romantic song that swept over SouthernEurope in the Middle Ages, when troubadourswandered through the rose-bowers of Provenceplaying sweet melodies on… … sian instrument, and it wasduring the Middle Ages thatit was first known in Europe,where it became a great fa-vorite. Poets sang its praises;Shakspere puts lutes in the handsof many of his heroines. This beautiful instrument is now out WcJ^.an-cri&n-ch^-g,W.of use, and all the specimens in…

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