Chitarra Italiana
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Chitarra Italiana is a lute-shaped plucked instrument with 4 or 5 single (sometimes double) strings, in a tuning similar to that of guitar. It was common in Italy during the Renaissance Era.
It is believed to have descended from Panduras, the Mediterranean lutes of Antiquity, and to be related to north African Quitra (or Kitra).
Its bass variety was known as Chitarrone.
See also
- Gittern. The gittern was another name for the chitarra.
- Cithara Italica (Cittern in Latina)
- Chitarra battente (Guitar used on southern Italian folk music, also known as Chitarra Italiana)
References
- • Da "chitarra italiana" a "chitarrone": una nuova interpretazione, in Enrico Radesca da Foggia, atti del convegno, a cura di Francesca Seller, Lucca, LIM, 2001, pp. 37-57.
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