This article is about the medieval musical instrument. For other uses, see Lituus.
The medieval lituus was a musical instrument of an indeterminate nature, known only from records which ascribe it various properties. Johann Sebastian Bach's O Jesu Christ, Meins Lebens Licht contains the only known piece of music written for an instrument under this name.
The medievallituus was a musical instrument of an indeterminate nature, known only from records which ascribe it various properties. Johann Sebastian...
undertaking. The lituus was also used as a symbol of office for the college of the augurs to mark them out as a priestly group. The ancient lituus was an Etruscan...
by suicide featuring prominently. Pilate was also the focus of numerous medieval legends, which invented a complete biography for him and portrayed him...
the lituus were called liticines. Surviving litui are between 78 and 140 cm (31–55 in) long. Being the shortest of the Roman trumpets, the lituus was...
secular and religious precedents in the ancient world. One example is the lituus, the traditional staff of the ancient Roman augurs, as well as the Staff...
to keep sacrificing bigger victims until litatio could be obtained. The lituus is the distinctively curved staff of an augur, frequently depicted on Roman...
procession which indicated his status and prestige, along with the fasces, lituus-bearers, and other emblems of his office. The custom of bearing the curule...
various commands, while the buccina (possibly a trumpet or horn) and the lituus (probably an elongated J-shaped instrument), were used in ceremonial capacities...
edition of 1981), p. 110. The correspondence is available online at Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Letter of St. Ambrose, trans. H. De Romestin, 1896., Fordham...
Roman Empire. Other straight trumpets in antiquity were the Etruscan-Roman lituus and the Greek salpinx. Tuba-shaped trumpets have been around since the mid-3rd...
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