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The cithara is also mentioned in other places in the Latin Vulgate version of the Bible, including Genesis 4:21, 1 Kings (1 Samuel) 16:16, 1 Paralipomenon (1 Chronicles) 25:3, Job 30:31, Psalms 32:2, Psalms 56:9, Psalms 70:22, Psalms 80:3, Psalms 91:4, Psalms 97:5, Psalms 107:3, Psalms
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depicts King David wielding an instrument that has a broad neck, a circular pegbox (without pegs depicted), and three strings, and whose total length is three times as long as its body, which is of a circular shape. This instrument resembles a lute more than a cithara, but it is associated with
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was widely used as a teaching instrument in boys’ schools, the cithara was a virtuoso's instrument and generally known as requiring a great deal of skill. The cithara was played primarily to accompany dance, epic recitations, rhapsodies, odes, and lyric songs. It was also played solo at the
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This psalter contains several images of an instrument having a long neck and a narrow body with parallel sides, sloping shoulders, and a pear-shaped pegbox. In the text, next to all these miniatures, the instrument is called a
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receptions, banquets, national games, and trials of skill. Aristotle said that these string instruments were not for educational purposes but for pleasure only. It was played by strumming the strings with a stiff
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is mentioned a number of times in the Bible, generally translated into English as "harp" or "psaltery", but historically rendered as "cithara". Psalm 42 in the Latin Vulgate (Psalm 43 in other versions), says,
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made of dried leather, held in the right hand with elbow outstretched and palm bent inwards. The strings with undesired notes were damped with the straightened fingers of the left hand.
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composed of two resonating tables, either flat or slightly arched, connected by ribs or sides of equal width. At the top, its strings were knotted around the crossbar or yoke (
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Most vase paintings show citharas with seven strings, in agreement with ancient authors, but those same authors also mention that occasionally an especially skillful
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146:7, Psalms 150:3, Isaiah 5:12, Isaiah 16:11, 1 Machabees 3:45, and 1 Corinthians 14:7.
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was an intermediate stage, as the cithara developed from the lyre. Detail from an Attic
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was also used generically for stringed instruments, including lyres, but also including
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mentions that Phrynnis was the first to play the cithara at Athens and won at the
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depicting women in a peristyle, listening to another woman play a kithara and
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D'Euripide aux premiers chretiens: musique de l'antiquité grecque et romaine
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Apollo Kitharoidos. Painted plaster, Roman artwork from the Augustan period.
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of later times, i.e. the 6th to 3rd centuries B.C., in the Hellenic world."
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is often depicted playing a cithara instead of a lyre, often dressed in a
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Two sketches of string instrument players (citharas, lyres or
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family. It was a seven-stringed professional version of the
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Young kithara player by the Goluchow Painter, Athens,
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would use more than the conventional seven strings.
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Index

Cithara
Cythara

Greek
romanized
Latinized
ancient Greek
musical instrument
yoke lutes
lyre
folk instrument
lyre
kitharodes
modern Greek
guitar
etymologically

fresco
sambuca (instrument)
Minoan
Mycenaean
swan
M.L. West
Anatolia
lyra
plectrum
sounding box
kitharode

Apollo kitharoidos

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