Or if a graver note than, love, With Phoebus' citternand his lyre.
The instrument, a cittern with four strings, is being played by a bear.
Michael Praetorius[6] gives various tunings for the cittern as well as an illustration (sounded an octave higher than the notation).
The cittern consisted of a pear-shaped body similar to that of the lute but with a flat back and sound-board joined by ribs.
The cittern of the middle ages was also to be found in oval shape.
References to thecittern are plentiful in the literature of the 16th and 17th centuries.
The popularity of the cittern was at its height in England and Germany during the 16th and 17th centuries.
A very clearly drawncittern of the 14th century occurs in a MS.
Persian of Albumazar into Latin by Georgius Zothari Zopari Fenduli, priest and philosopher, with a prologue and numerous illustrations by his own hand; thecittern is here called giga in an inscription at the side of the drawing.
It is evident that the kinship of cittern and guitar was formerly recognized, for during the 18th century, as stated above, the cittern was known as the English guitar to distinguish it from the Spanish guitar.
Bagshot, he played to the king on the cittern (cithara), and that his performance was duly appreciated and applauded.
The last development of the cittern before its disappearance was the addition of keys.
Defn: An old instrument of the lute or cittern kind.
Defn: A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
Later on I was fortunate enough to discover a Cittern part in the Bodleian Library, and, later still, a part for the Pandora has been found in the Christ Church Library.
I have married his cittern that is common to all men': meaning that as the barber's cittern was always being played, so his wife was always talking.
In Shakespeare days, the viol, lute, and cittern all had frets on the fingerboard, but they were then simply bits of string tied round at the right places for the fingers, and made fast with glue.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cittern" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
