The barbiton, or barbitos (Gr: βάρβιτον or βάρβιτος; Lat. barbitus), is an ancient stringed instrument related to the lyre known from Greek and Roman classics.
The Greek instrument was a bass version of the kithara, and belonged in the zither family, but in medieval times, the same name was used to refer to the barbat; a different instrument that is a variety of lute.
The barbiton, or barbitos (Gr: βάρβιτον or βάρβιτος; Lat. barbitus), is an ancient stringed instrument related to the lyre known from Greek and Roman classics...
Bela barbiton is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae. The length of the shell attains 8.5 mm, its diameter 3 mm...
which is a smaller version of the professional cithara and eastern-Aegean barbiton, or "lyre" can refer generally to all three instruments as a family. The...
musical instruments can be classified into the following categories: Aulos Barbiton Chelys Cithara (or Kithara) Crotalum Epigonion Harp Kanonaki Lyre Pan flute...
wall three female dancers, one male dancer and a male musician with a barbiton appear. They are placed between small trees filled with birds. On the right...
are made of wood. Examples of yoke lutes are the lyre, the kithara, the barbiton, and the phorminx from Ancient Greece, and the biblical kinnor, all of...
training. Barbiton A larger, bass-version of the cithara, considered to be east-Ionian, an exotic and somewhat foreign instrument. The barbiton was the...
have recreated the sounds of, including the epigonion, the salpinx, the barbiton and the syrinx. The aulos was also featured in the 2009 movie Agora, wherein...
sometimes compared to an oboe. When string instruments were played, the barbiton was the traditional instrument. Slaves and boys also provided service and...
banqueter with a drinking dish, flirting with a musician holding a lyre or barbiton Symposium, men on couches, the only woman present is a hetaira. Party musicians...
Lawrence Bulleid, 1905 Ancient Greece Ancient Greek music Ancient Rome Barbiton Cythara Gittern, an instrument whose name is derived from Kithara Guitar...
"coquillards". 1484: Olivier Le Daim, confidant of King Louis XI of France. 1525: Barbiton, Jean Charrot and Jean Lubbe, brigands.[citation needed] 1527: Jacques...
Camitlnas et Cnaeve Tarchunies Rumach Fresco of an Etruscan musician with a barbiton, Tomb of the Triclinium, Tarquinia Fuller view of the Tomb of the Triclinium...
quarters of a house, on a classical Greek vase. The photo is focused on a seated woman who is relaxed while fingering a "barbiton" (a stringed instrument)....
have been recreated by ASTRA, including the epigonion, the aulos, the barbiton and the syrinx. History of primitive and non-Western trumpets salpinx....
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verse, which were accompanied by stringed instruments (the cithara and barbiton respectively), elegy was accompanied by a wind instrument (the aulos) and...
in later years included other string instruments such as the kithara, barbiton, and phorminx, as well as wind instruments such as the aulos, a double-reeded...
in honour of his patron, he called a Lyra Barberina or Amphichord (see barbiton). Giovanni returned to Florence once again (around 1640), where he married...
front of him facing right, his head turned to the left. He is holding a barbiton (lyre) in one arm, his fingers splayed across the strings. In his other...
other improvements to it, rather than adopt the rebab, the tanbur or the barbiton from the Persians or Arabians...The transitions whereby the cithara acquired...
ASTRA has recreated the sounds for, including the salpinx, the aulos, the barbiton, and the syrinx. ASTRA describes the sound of their modelled epigonion...
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