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The Anglo-Saxon lyre, also known as the Germanic lyre, a rotta, Hörpu Old Norse [1] or the Viking lyre, is a large plucked and strummed lyre that was played in Anglo-Saxon England, and more widely, in Germanic regions of northwestern Europe. The oldest lyre found in England dates before 450 AD and the most recent dates to the 10th century.
The earliest reference to the word "lyre" is the Mycenaean Greek ru-ra-ta-e, meaning "lyrists" and written in the Linear B script. [5] In classical Greek, the word "lyre" could either refer specifically to an amateur instrument, which is a smaller version of the professional cithara and eastern-Aegean barbiton, or "lyre" can refer generally to all three instruments as a family. [6]
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Apollo is often depicted playing a cithara instead of a lyre, often dressed in a kitharode’s formal robes. Kitharoidos, or Citharoedus, is an epithet given to Apollo, which means "lyre-singer" or "one who sings to the lyre". An Apollo Citharoedus or Apollo Citharede, is the term for a type of statue or other image of Apollo with a cithara.
Print of Clio, made in the 16th–17th century. Preserved at the Ghent University Library. [1]In Greek mythology, Clio (traditionally / ˈ k l aɪ oʊ /, [2] but now more frequently / ˈ k l iː oʊ /; Greek: Κλειώ), also spelled Kleio, Сleio, or Cleo, [3] is the muse of history, [4] or in a few mythological accounts, the muse of lyre-playing.
The lyre section makes up the majority of the band. They play the melodic parts. A member of the band that consists of this section is called a lyrist. In bigger bands, the band may add a bass lyre, a bell lyre with a lower range of keys, and sometimes a grand lyre, a bell lyre with a wide range of keys.
Some translators, for example Wolfgang Heimpel, favor interpreting balaĝ as a harp, [2] but Uri Gabbay argues the available evidence makes it more likely that it was a lyre. [6] This conclusion is also supported by Dahlia Shehata, who points out that possible references to two people playing a balaĝ at once makes it more plausible to ...
The jouhikko (Finnish: [ˈjou̯hikːo]) is a traditional, two- or three-stringed bowed lyre, from Finland and Karelia.Its strings are traditionally of horsehair. The playing of this instrument died out in the early 20th century but has been revived and there are now a number of musicians playing it.