This rotta must be reckoned among the early ancestors of the violin before the advent of the bow; it was known both as rotta and cithara, and with a neck added it became the guitar-fiddle.
The rotta or improved cithara had a body either rectangular with the corners rounded, or guitar-shaped with incurvations, back and sound-board being nearly or quite flat, joined as in the cithara by ribs or sides.
The genealogical tree of the violin given below shows the relative positions of both kinds of rotta and chrotta.
This old German rotta is an exact counterpart of instruments pictured in illuminated MSS.
Semitic type bearing a rottawhich he holds horizontally in front of him in the Assyrian manner, and quite unlike the Greeks, who always played the lyre and cithara in an upright position.
Both instruments have three strings and the characteristic guitar outline with incurvations, the rotta differing in having no neck.
This rotta was found in an Alamannic tomb of the 4th to the 7th centuries at Oberflacht in the Black Forest.
Then the list proceeds with the tale of the Borgias, Guerre Orrende, Rotta di Ravenna, Mali deportamenti de Franciosi fato in Italia, and so forth, till it ends with La Presa di Roma and Rotta di Ferruccio.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rotta" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
