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Crwth, the Glossary

The crwth, also called a crowd or rote or crotta, is a bowed lyre, a type of stringed instrument, associated particularly with Welsh music, now archaic but once widely played in Europe.^[1]

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Bowed lyres
Celtic musical instruments
English musical instruments
String instruments with sympathetic strings
Welsh music history
Welsh musical instruments

Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth is a university and seaside town and a community in Ceredigion, Wales.

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Acer pseudoplatanus

Acer pseudoplatanus, known as the sycamore in the British Isles and as the sycamore maple in the United States, is a species of maple native to Central Europe and Western Asia.

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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, branded as simply Amgueddfa Cymru (formerly the National Museums and Galleries of Wales and legally National Museum of Wales), is a Welsh Government sponsored body that comprises seven museums in Wales.

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Beddgelert

Beddgelert is a village and community in the Snowdonia area of Gwynedd, Wales.

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Bowed string instrument

Bowed string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by a bow rubbing the strings.

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Bragod

Bragod is a duo giving historically informed performances of mediaeval Welsh music. Crwth and Bragod are Welsh music history.

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Bridge (instrument)

A bridge is a device that supports the strings on a stringed musical instrument and transmits the vibration of those strings to another structural component of the instrument—typically a soundboard, such as the top of a guitar or violin—which transfers the sound to the surrounding air.

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Byzantine lyra

The Byzantine lyra or lira (λύρα) was a medieval bowed string musical instrument in the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire. Crwth and Byzantine lyra are early musical instruments.

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Cancionero (ensemble)

Cancionero is the name of an early-music ensemble based in the Sevenoaks and Maidstone area of Kent who perform the songs and dance music of the Middle Ages and also early Renaissance music from the Tudor court.

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Cardiff

Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital and largest city of Wales.

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Celtic languages

The Celtic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family, descended from Proto-Celtic.

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Cherry

A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit).

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Criccieth

Criccieth, also spelled Cricieth, is a town and community in Gwynedd, Wales, on the boundary between the Llŷn Peninsula and Eifionydd.

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Edward Lhuyd

Edward Lhuyd (1660– 30 June 1709), also known as Edward Lhwyd and by other spellings, was a Welsh naturalist, botanist, herbalist, alchemist, scientist, linguist, geographer, and antiquary.

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Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition

The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911) is a 29-volume reference work, an edition of the real Encyclopædia Britannica.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Fernhill (band)

Fernhill is a Welsh folk band formed in 1996.

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Fingerboard

The fingerboard (also known as a fretboard on fretted instruments) is an important component of most stringed instruments.

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Folklore

Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture.

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Fret

A fret is any of the thin strips of material, usually metal wire, inserted laterally at specific positions along the neck or fretboard of a stringed instrument.

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Harp

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.

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Hornpipe (instrument)

The hornpipe can refer to a specific instrument or a class of woodwind instruments consisting of a single reed, a large diameter melody pipe with finger holes and a bell traditionally made from animal horn.

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Horsehair

Horsehair is the long hair growing on the manes and tails of horses.

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Interval (music)

In music theory, an interval is a difference in pitch between two sounds.

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Irish language

Irish (Standard Irish: Gaeilge), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language group, which is a part of the Indo-European language family.

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Jouhikko

The jouhikko (Finnish: ˈjou̯hikːo) is a traditional, two- or three-stringed bowed lyre, from Finland and Karelia. Crwth and jouhikko are bowed lyres.

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Kithara

The kithara, or Latinized cithara (κιθάρα |translit.

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Lyre

The lyre is a stringed musical instrument that is classified by Hornbostel–Sachs as a member of the lute family of instruments. Crwth and lyre are early musical instruments, English musical instruments and Welsh musical instruments.

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Maple

Acer is a genus of trees and shrubs commonly known as maples.

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Medieval Latin

Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin used in Roman Catholic Western Europe during the Middle Ages.

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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Music of Wales

The Music of Wales (Welsh: Cerddoriaeth Cymru), particularly singing, is a significant part of Welsh national identity, and the country is traditionally referred to as "the land of song".

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National Library of Wales

The National Library of Wales (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru), in Aberystwyth, is the national legal deposit library of Wales and is one of the Welsh Government sponsored bodies.

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Pibgorn (instrument)

The pibgorn is a Welsh species of idioglot reed aerophone. Crwth and pibgorn (instrument) are Celtic musical instruments and Welsh musical instruments.

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Proto-Celtic language

Proto-Celtic, or Common Celtic, is the hypothetical ancestral proto-language of all known Celtic languages, and a descendant of Proto-Indo-European.

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Roman Britain

Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain.

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Rotta (instrument)

The rotta (also rotte, chrotta or hrotta) is a type of lyre that was widely used in north-western Europe from pre-Christian to medieval times. Crwth and rotta (instrument) are early musical instruments.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Softwood

Scots pine, a typical and well-known softwood Softwood is wood from gymnosperm trees such as conifers.

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Sound box

A sound box or sounding box (sometimes written soundbox) is an open chamber in the body of a musical instrument which modifies the sound of the instrument, and helps transfer that sound to the surrounding air.

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Sound hole

A sound hole is an opening in the body of a stringed musical instrument, usually the upper sound board.

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Sound post

In a string instrument, the sound post or soundpost is a dowel inside the instrument under the treble end of the bridge, spanning the space between the top and back plates and held in place by friction.

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Sounding board

A sounding board, also known as a tester and abat-voix is a structure placed above and sometimes also behind a pulpit or other speaking platform that helps to project the sound of the speaker.

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St Fagans National Museum of History

St Fagans National Museum of History (Sain Ffagan: Amgueddfa Werin Cymru), commonly referred to as St Fagans after the village where it is located, is an open-air museum in Cardiff chronicling the historical lifestyle, culture, and architecture of the Welsh people.

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String instrument

In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.

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Surname

A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family.

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Talharpa

The talharpa, also known as a tagelharpa (tail-hair harp), hiiu kannel (originally hiiurootsi (which meant Vormsi island located on the halfway to Hiiumaa) kannel) or stråkharpa (bowed harp), is a two to four stringed bowed lyre from northern Europe. Crwth and talharpa are bowed lyres.

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Timbre

In music, timbre, also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.

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Tiompan

The tiompán (Irish), tiompan (Scottish Gaelic), or timpan (Welsh) was a stringed musical instrument used by musicians in medieval Ireland and Britain.

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Tromba marina

A tromba marina, marine trumpet or nuns' fiddle, (Fr. trompette marine; Ger. Marientrompete, Trompetengeige, Nonnengeige or Trumscheit, Pol. tubmaryna) is a triangular bowed string instrument used in medieval and Renaissance Europe that was highly popular in the 15th century in England and survived into the 18th century. Crwth and tromba marina are early musical instruments.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crwth

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See also

Bowed lyres

Celtic musical instruments

English musical instruments

String instruments with sympathetic strings

Welsh music history

Welsh musical instruments

References