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Theorbo, the Glossary

The theorbo is a plucked string instrument of the lute family, with an extended neck that houses the second pegbox.^[1]

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Accompaniment

Accompaniment is the musical part which provides the rhythmic and/or harmonic support for the melody or main themes of a song or instrumental piece.

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Alessandro Piccinini

Alessandro Piccinini (1566 – 1638) was an Italian lutenist and composer.

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An allemande (allemanda, almain(e), or alman(d), French: "German (dance)") is a Renaissance and Baroque dance, and one of the most common instrumental dance styles in Baroque music, with examples by Couperin, Purcell, Bach and Handel.

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Andreas Martin (lutenist)

Andreas Martin (born 1963) is a German lutenist.

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Angélique (instrument)

The angélique (French, from Italian angelica) is a plucked string instrument of the lute family of the baroque era. Theorbo and angélique (instrument) are baroque instruments and Necked bowl lutes.

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Angelo Michele Bartolotti

Angelo Michele Bartolotti (died before 1682) was an Italian guitarist, theorbo player and composer.

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Archlute

The archlute (archilaúd, arciliuto, Erzlaute) is a European plucked string instrument developed around 1600 as a compromise between the very large theorbo, the size and re-entrant tuning of which made for difficulties in the performance of solo music, and the Renaissance tenor lute, which lacked the bass range of the theorbo. Theorbo and archlute are Necked bowl lutes.

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Arpeggio

An arpeggio is a type of broken chord in which the notes that compose a chord are individually sounded in a progressive rising or descending order.

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Athanasius Kircher

Athanasius Kircher (2 May 1602 – 27 November 1680) was a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works of comparative religion, geology, and medicine.

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Baroque music

Baroque music refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750.

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Bassline

Bassline (also known as a bass line or bass part) is the term used in many styles of music, such as blues, jazz, funk, dub and electronic, traditional, and classical music, for the low-pitched instrumental part or line played (in jazz and some forms of popular music) by a rhythm section instrument such as the electric bass, double bass, cello, tuba or keyboard (piano, Hammond organ, electric organ, or synthesizer).

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Basso continuo

Basso continuo parts, almost universal in the Baroque era (1600–1750), provided the harmonic structure of the music by supplying a bassline and a chord progression.

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Bellerofonte Castaldi

Bellerofonte Castaldi (1580 – 27 September 1649) was an Italian composer, poet and lutenist.

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Bouzouki

The bouzouki (also; μπουζούκι; alt. pl. bouzoukia, from Greek μπουζούκια) is a musical instrument popular in Greece. Theorbo and bouzouki are Necked bowl lutes.

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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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Cello

The violoncello, often simply abbreviated as cello, is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Theorbo and cello are basso continuo instruments.

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Charles Hurel

Charles Hurel was a French Baroque composer, lutenist and theorbist active between 1665 and 1692.

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Chitarra Italiana

Chitarra Italiana ('Italian guitar') is a lute-shaped plucked instrument with four or five single (sometimes double) strings, in a tuning similar to that of the guitar. Theorbo and Chitarra Italiana are Necked bowl lutes.

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Christina Pluhar

Christina Pluhar (Graz, 1965) is an Austrian theorbist, harpist, conductor, and director of L'Arpeggiata ensemble.

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Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player.

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Commedia dell'arte was an early form of professional theatre, originating from Italian theatre, that was popular throughout Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries.

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Courante

The courante, corrente, coranto and corant are some of the names given to a family of triple metre dances from the late Renaissance and the Baroque era.

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Course (music)

A course, on a stringed musical instrument, is either one string or two or more adjacent strings that are closely spaced relative to the other strings, and typically played as a single string.

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David Loeb (composer)

David Loeb (born May 11, 1939) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.

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Drone (sound)

In music, a drone is a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout most or all of a piece.

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Early Music (journal)

Early Music is a peer-reviewed academic journal specialising in the study of early music.

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Eduardo Egüez

Eduardo Egüez (born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1959) is a lutenist, theorbist, and guitarist acclaimed for his interpretations of music by J.S.Bach.

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Ernst Gottlieb Baron

Ernst Gottlieb Baron or Ernst Theofil Baron (17 February 1696 – 12 April 1760), was a German lutenist, composer and writer on music.

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Figured bass

Figured bass is musical notation in which numerals and symbols appear above or below (or next to) a bass note.

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Florentine Camerata

The Florentine Camerata, also known as the Camerata de' Bardi, were a group of humanists, musicians, poets and intellectuals in late Renaissance Florence who gathered under the patronage of Count Giovanni de' Bardi to discuss and guide trends in the arts, especially music and drama.

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François Couperin

François Couperin (10 November 1668 – 11 September 1733) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist.

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Francesco Bartolomeo Conti

Francesco Bartolomeo Conti (20 January 1681 or 168219 July 1732) was an Italian composer and player of the mandolin and theorbo.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Galliard

The galliard (gaillarde; gagliarda) was a form of Renaissance dance and music popular all over Europe in the 16th century.

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German language

German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.

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Gigue

The gigue or giga is a lively baroque dance originating from the English jig.

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Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger

Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (also: Johann(es) Hieronymus Kapsberger or Giovanni Geronimo Kapsperger; c. 1580 – Rome 17 January 1651) was an Austrian-Italian virtuoso performer and composer of the early Baroque period.

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Gittern

The gittern was a relatively small gut-strung, round-backed instrument that first appeared in literature and pictorial representation during the 13th century in Western Europe (Iberian Peninsula, Italy, France, England). Theorbo and gittern are Necked bowl lutes.

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Giuliano Paratico

Giuliano Paratico (1550–1616) was a musician living in Brescia, Northern Italy.

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Giulio Caccini

Giulio Romolo Caccini (also Giulio Romano) (8 October 1551 – buried 10 December 1618) was an Italian composer, teacher, singer, instrumentalist and writer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras.

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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. Theorbo and harp are baroque instruments and orchestral instruments.

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Harpsichord

A harpsichord (clavicembalo, clavecin, Cembalo; clavecín, cravo, клавеси́н (tr. klavesín or klavesin), klavecimbel, klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. Theorbo and harpsichord are baroque instruments and basso continuo instruments.

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Italian language

Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.

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Jacques Gaultier

Jacques Gaultier (or Gauterius, Gouterus, Goutier, Gautier, Gautier d'Angleterre, also James Gwaltier) (born ca. 1600, fl. 1617 – 1652) was a French Baroque lutenist and composer.

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Jakob Lindberg

Jakob Lindberg (born 16 October 1952) is a Swedish lutenist, performing solo, in small and large ensembles, and also directing operas, using instruments of the lute and guitar families.

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Jean-Baptiste Lully

Jean-Baptiste Lully (– 22 March 1687) was a French composer, dancer and instrumentalist of Italian birth, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style.

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Joan Ambrosio Dalza

Joan Ambrosio Dalza (fl. 1508) was a Milanese lutenist and composer.

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L'Orfeo

L'Orfeo (SV 318), or La favola d'Orfeo, is a late Renaissance/early Baroque favola in musica, or opera, by Claudio Monteverdi, with a libretto by Alessandro Striggio.

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Latin America

Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.

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Le nuove musiche

Le nuove musiche ("The New Musics") is a collection of monodies and songs for solo voice and basso continuo by the composer Giulio Caccini, published in Florence in July 1602.

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List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number: 321.321

This is a list of instruments sorted according to the Hornbostel-Sachs number system, covering those instruments that are classified under 321.321 under that system. Theorbo and list of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number: 321.321 are Necked bowl lutes.

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Lombard language

The Lombard language (native name: lombard,Classical Milanese orthography, and. lumbard,Ticinese orthography. lumbartModern Western orthography and Classical Cremish Orthography. or lombart,Eastern unified orthography. depending on the orthography; pronunciation) belongs to the Gallo-Italic group within the Romance languages and is characterized by a Celtic linguistic substratum and a Lombardic linguistic superstratum and is a cluster of homogeneous dialects that are spoken by millions of speakers in Northern Italy and southern Switzerland, including most of Lombardy and some areas of the neighbouring regions, notably the far eastern side of Piedmont and the extreme western side of Trentino, and in Switzerland in the cantons of Ticino and Graubünden.

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Lute

A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. Theorbo and lute are baroque instruments, basso continuo instruments and orchestral instruments.

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Lynda Sayce

Lynda Sayce is a British lutenist and theorbo player, known also as a scholar of musical history and a writer on the history of the lute and theorbo.

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Massimo Marchese

Massimo Marchese (born in Savona, Italy) is an Italian musician, lutenist, theorbist and recording artist.

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Matthew Wadsworth

Matthew Wadsworth (born 1974) is an English lutenist.

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Michael Praetorius

Michael Praetorius (probably 28 September 1571 – 15 February 1621) was a German composer, organist, and music theorist.

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Monody

In music, monody refers to a solo vocal style distinguished by having a single melodic line and instrumental accompaniment.

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Musical notation

Musical notation is any system used to visually represent music.

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Musical tuning

In music, there are two common meanings for tuning.

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Neapolitan language

Neapolitan (autonym: ('o n)napulitano; napoletano) is a Romance language of the Italo-Romance group spoken in Naples and most of continental Southern Italy.

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Nicolas Hotman

Nicolas Hotman (also Autheman, Haultemant, Hautman, Otteman; ca. 1610–1663) was a Baroque composer, who spent most of his career in France.

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Nigel North

Nigel North (born 5 June 1954) is an English lutenist, musicologist, and pedagogue.

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Octave

In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the '''diapason''') is a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice the frequency of vibration of the other.

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Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) is a British period instrument orchestra.

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Oud

The oud (translit) is a Middle Eastern short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument (a chordophone in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments), usually with 11 strings grouped in six courses, but some models have five or seven courses, with 10 or 13 strings respectively. Theorbo and oud are Necked bowl lutes.

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Pandura

The pandura (πανδοῦρα, pandoura) or pandore, an ancient string instrument, belonged in the broad class of the lute and guitar instruments.

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Paul O'Dette

Paul Raymond O'Dette (born February 2, 1954) is an American lutenist, conductor, and musicologist specializing in early music.

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Pipe organ

The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called wind) through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard. Theorbo and pipe organ are baroque instruments, basso continuo instruments and orchestral instruments.

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Plucked string instrument

Plucked string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by plucking the strings.

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Prystrunky

Prystrunky (приструнки, sg. приструнок) is a term used for the additional unfretted strings strung across the body of Ukrainian folk instruments such as the kobza, bandura, and torban.

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Reentrant tuning

On a stringed instrument, a break in an otherwise ascending (or descending) order of string pitches is known as a re-entry.

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Richard Stone (lutenist)

Richard Stone is an American lutenist, music director, educator and music editor.

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Rob MacKillop

Rob MacKillop (born 1959) is a Scottish composer and multi-instrumentalist, specializing in lute, theorbo, vihuela, banjo, ukulele and both classical and Russian guitar.

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Robert de Visée

Robert de Visée (c. 1655 – 1732/1733) was a French lutenist, guitarist, theorbist and viol player at the court of the kings Louis XIV and Louis XV, as well as a singer and a composer for lute, theorbo and guitar.

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Rolf Lislevand

Rolf Lislevand (30 December 1961 in Oslo, Norway), is a Norwegian performer of Early music specialising on lute, vihuela, baroque guitar and theorbo.

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Roman Turovsky-Savchuk

Roman Turovsky-Savchuk (Ukrainian: Роман Туровський-Савчук) is an American artist-painter, photographer and videoinstallation artist, as well as a lutenist-composer,.

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Sarabande

The sarabande (from zarabanda) is a dance in triple metre, or the music written for such a dance.

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Scott Fields

Scott Fields (born September 30, 1960 in Chicago, Illinois) is a guitarist, composer, and bandleader.

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Slavic languages

The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants.

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Stephen Goss

Stephen Goss (born 2 February 1964) is a Welsh composer, guitarist and academic.

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Stephen Stubbs

Stephen Stubbs (born 1951) is a lutenist and music director and has been a leading figure in the American early music scene for nearly thirty years.

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String (music)

In music, strings are long flexible structures on string instruments that produce sound through vibration.

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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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Sylvius Leopold Weiss

Sylvius Leopold Weiss (12 October 168716 October 1750) was a German composer and lutenist.

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Syntagma Musicum

Syntagma Musicum (1614-1620) is a musical treatise in three volumes by the German composer, organist, and music theorist Michael Praetorius.

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Tablature

Tablature (or tab for short) is a form of musical notation indicating instrument fingering or the location of the played notes rather than musical pitches.

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Tambouras

The tambouras (ταμπουράς) is a Greek traditional string instrument of Byzantine origin.

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Texture (music)

In music, texture is how the tempo, melodic, and harmonic materials are combined in a musical composition, determining the overall quality of the sound in a piece.

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Thomas Mace

Thomas Mace (1612 or 1613 – c. 1706) was an English lutenist, viol player, singer, composer and musical theorist of the Baroque era.

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Tiorbino

A tiorbino, a small theorbo (tiorbo in Italian), is a rare stringed instrument, a type of long-necked lute resembling a theorbo but significantly smaller and pitched an octave higher. Theorbo and tiorbino are Necked bowl lutes.

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Torban

The torban (Торбан, also teorban or Ukrainian theorbo) is a Ukrainian musical instrument that combines the features of the Baroque lute with those of the psaltery. Theorbo and torban are baroque instruments.

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Transposition (music)

In music, transposition refers to the process or operation of moving a collection of notes (pitches or pitch classes) up or down in pitch by a constant interval.

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Tuning mechanisms for stringed instruments

A variety of methods are used to tune different stringed instruments.

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Turkish language

Turkish (Türkçe, Türk dili also Türkiye Türkçesi 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 90 to 100 million speakers.

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Unmeasured prelude

Unmeasured or non-measured prelude is a prelude in which the duration of each note is left to the performer.

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Voice leading

Voice leading (or part writing) is the linear progression of individual melodic lines (voices or parts) and their interaction with one another to create harmonies, typically in accordance with the principles of common-practice harmony and counterpoint.

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References

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

Also known as Chitarrone, Liuto attiorbato, Theorb, Theorba, Théorbe, Theorbist, Theorbo lute, Theorboe, Tiorba, Tiorbe, Tuorba, Tuorbe, Téorbe.

, List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number: 321.321, Lombard language, Lute, Lynda Sayce, Massimo Marchese, Matthew Wadsworth, Michael Praetorius, Monody, Musical notation, Musical tuning, Neapolitan language, Nicolas Hotman, Nigel North, Octave, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Oud, Pandura, Paul O'Dette, Pipe organ, Plucked string instrument, Prystrunky, Reentrant tuning, Richard Stone (lutenist), Rob MacKillop, Robert de Visée, Rolf Lislevand, Roman Turovsky-Savchuk, Sarabande, Scott Fields, Slavic languages, Stephen Goss, Stephen Stubbs, String (music), String instrument, Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Syntagma Musicum, Tablature, Tambouras, Texture (music), Thomas Mace, Tiorbino, Torban, Transposition (music), Tuning mechanisms for stringed instruments, Turkish language, Unmeasured prelude, Voice leading, William Lawes, Xavier Diaz-Latorre, Yasunori Imamura, YouTube.

Theorbo, the Glossary

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See also

Baroque instruments

Basso continuo instruments

Orchestral instruments

References