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Definition of Cithara

Cithara
Cithara Cith"a*ra, n. [L. Cf. Cittern, Guitar.] (Mus.) An ancient instrument resembling the harp.

Meaning of Cithara from wikipedia

- The kithara (Gr****: κιθάρα, romanized: kithára), Latinized as cithara, was an ancient Gr**** musical instrument in the yoke lutes family. It was a seven-stringed...
- Cithara octochorda (English: Eight-string kithara) is an 18th-century hymnal, containing hymns written in both Latin and Croatian (Kajkavian) language...
- accomplished cithara player and singer, was performing in a competition when one of the cithara strings snaps. A cicada as offering, alights on his cithara, sustaining...
- a classical Gr**** professional performer (singer) of the cithara, as one who used the cithara to accompany their singing. Famous citharodes included Terpander...
- instrument was adopted in Ancient Egypt and also by the Ancient Gr****s as the cithara. The rotte is shaped differently than these, however, and discoveries from...
- an amateur instrument, which is a smaller version of the professional cithara and eastern-Aegean barbiton, or "lyre" can refer generally to all three...
- instrument, then it likely was referring to a lyre. It was also spelled cithara or kithara and was Latin for the Gr**** lyre. However, lacking names for...
- Quartetto Cetra (Italian for 'Cithara Quartet'; pronounced [kwarˈtetto ˈtʃeːtra]) was an Italian jazz vocal quartet established during the early 1940s...
- reminded him of the "yoke" on the cithara lyre and "enormous ornamental wings" that were remains from the cithara lyre's arms. Under the theory, a neck...
- an Italian descendant of κιθάρα (cithara). It is a synonym for the cittern but has been used for the citole and cithara (the lyre-form) and cythara (the...