A chitarrone is a kind of extended lute where it has bass strings, enormously long, connected to the basic lute body. How it’s used: It was an instrument that was invented for this music. It has no ...

The Dutch ex-punk and Jim Jarmusch bandmate talks about his passion to free up a hidebound repertoire and make its strings ‘a real pop instrument’ Nobody can accuse Jozef Van Wissem of doing things by ...

Sonata No. 39 Silvius Leopold Weiss, Composer Jakob Lindberg, Lute Tombeau sur la mort de M. Comte de Logy Jakob Lindberg, Lute Silvius Leopold Weiss, Composer Sonata No. 50 Silvius Leopold Weiss, ...

Upon hearing this terrific release for the first time, I remarked to a friend that it could easily have been titled ‘Jakobean Lute Music’. Because, apart from its being an excellent survey of ...

Stories of falling head over heels for an instrument are not unusual. What is unusual is love at first sight — or sound — when that instrument is the theorbo. In fact, it was the combination of both ...

It could be argued that he, even more than Andrés Segovia, established the guitar’s credibility as a serious solo instrument. By Allan Kozinn Julian Bream, the English musician who pushed the guitar ...

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Collected by George Byron Gordon ...