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    The gittern was a relatively small gut-strung, round-backed instrument that first appeared in literature and pictorial representation during the 13th...
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  • in Spain in the early 16th century, deriving from the guitarra latina. Gitterns (small, plucked guitars), were the first small, guitar-like instruments...
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  • Hinter Gittern – Der Frauenknast (English: "Behind bars - The Women's Prison", in short: HG or HiGi) was a German television series in the form of a soap...
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    the concepts needed to quickly switch to the newly arriving lutes and gitterns. Two possible descendant instruments are the Portuguese guitar and the...
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  • Mark Wheeler (lute, cittern, and gittern) and the German born Dominik Schneider (Renaissance recorder and flute, gittern, and vocals). With the addition...
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    mainstream only following World War II. The guitar's ancestors include the gittern, the vihuela, the four-course Renaissance guitar, and the five-course baroque...
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    short-necked plucked lutes such as the lute, oud, pipa, guitar, citole, gittern, mandore, rubab, and gambus and long-necked plucked lutes such as banjo...
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  • The evolution of classical guitars began with the influences of the gittern and vihuela in the 16th century and ended with the modern classical guitar...
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    pick. This gittern or citole with curved sides is illustrated in the medieval musical text the Cantigas de Santa Maria, alongside another gittern, the guitarra...
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    from lutes, a family of instruments in Europe. Predecessors include the gittern and mandore or mandola in Italy during the 17th and 18th centuries. There...
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    buen amor by Juan Ruiz, arcipestre de Hita, which described the "Moorish gittern" as "corpulent". The use of the adjective morisca tacked to guitarra may...
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    French music books from the 1580s, but can be seen as a development of the gittern. In Spain the mandore was called vandola. Musicologist James Tyler said...
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    modern guitars have appeared in Scottish folk music for centuries. The Gittern, an ancestor to the modern guitar, featured in medieval Scottish appearing...
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    Germany. She gained fame through her role in German television series Hinter Gittern – Der Frauenknast ("Behind Bars - the Women's Prison") between 1997 and...
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    Classical guitars derive from instruments such as the lute, the vihuela, the gittern (the name being a derivative of the Greek "kithara"), which evolved into...
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    Performers dressed as a stag, rabbit and boar dance to the music of a gittern. The image is not labeled and these have been interpreted as "mummers"...
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    music Classical music European Lutes: Angélique Archlute Bouzouki Cobza Gittern Kobza Laouto Mandola Mandolin Mandore Mandora or Gallichon Oúti Swedish...
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    short-necked plucked lutes such as the lute, oud, pipa, guitar, citole, gittern, mandore, rubab, and gambus and long-necked plucked lutes such as the tanbura...
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    Viol Viola Cello Lira da braccio Contrabass Violone Lute Theorbo Archlute Gittern Mandore Harp Cittern Vihuela Cornamuse Cromorne Crumhorn Rackett Rauschpfeife...
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  • Men Behind Bars (German: Menschen hinter Gittern) is a 1931 German-language American Pre-Code drama film directed by Pál Fejös and starring Heinrich George...
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    Electric bass Electric upright bass Gayageum (Korea) Geomungo (Korea) Gittern Gottuvadhyam (India) Guitar Classical guitar Solid-body classical guitar...
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    ancestral instruments of similar construction and range, the mandore and gittern, were used across Europe (including Spain, Italy, England, France, Germany...
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    Retrieved 9 September 2020. "Steuer-Prozess: Staatsanwalt will Becker hinter Gittern sehen – DER SPIEGEL – Panorama". Der Spiegel. 23 October 2002. Archived...
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    the line of lute-family instruments that dominated Europe (lute, oud, gittern, mandore), arguments have been made that they represent a European-based...
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    Lute Types by region Related instruments Citole Cittern English guitar Gittern Guitarra latina Guitarra morisca Laúd Other topics Composers Manufacturers...
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    his second wife, in middle age, was induced 'to learn to play apon the gittern, the lute, the clavichord and the recorders.'" Stevens, John (1961). Music...
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    instruments became the rebec or rabel and the plucked instruments became the gittern. Curt Sachs linked this instrument with the mandola, the kopuz and the...
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    Lute Types by region Related instruments Citole Cittern English guitar Gittern Guitarra latina Guitarra morisca Laúd Other topics Composers Manufacturers...
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    in Rouen or Évreux. General view of the current stained glass window. Gittern player. Panpipes player. Organist. The 19th-century Madonna stained-glass...
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    1996–present: Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei 1999–2000: Hinter Gittern – Der Frauenknast (3 episodes) 2003: Alarm für Cobra 11 – Einsatz für Team...
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