Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large chitarra, usually with a double neck, much extended, very similar to that of the theorbo and archlute.
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Examples
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With Patrick Summers on the podium, the San Francisco Opera's company premiere of Xerxes included several instruments rarely heard in operatic ensembles: the arch lute, baroque guitar, and theorbo a long-necked lute sometimes referred to as a chitarrone.
George Heymont: Going For Baroque With Handel's Xerxes George Heymont 2011
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With Patrick Summers on the podium, the San Francisco Opera's company premiere of Xerxes included several instruments rarely heard in operatic ensembles: the arch lute, baroque guitar, and theorbo a long-necked lute sometimes referred to as a chitarrone.
George Heymont: Going For Baroque With Handel's Xerxes George Heymont 2011
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With Patrick Summers on the podium, the San Francisco Opera's company premiere of Xerxes included several instruments rarely heard in operatic ensembles: the arch lute, baroque guitar, and theorbo a long-necked lute sometimes referred to as a chitarrone.
George Heymont: Going For Baroque With Handel's Xerxes George Heymont 2011
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With Patrick Summers on the podium, the San Francisco Opera's company premiere of Xerxes included several instruments rarely heard in operatic ensembles: the arch lute, baroque guitar, and theorbo a long-necked lute sometimes referred to as a chitarrone.
George Heymont: Going For Baroque With Handel's Xerxes George Heymont 2011
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With Patrick Summers on the podium, the San Francisco Opera's company premiere of Xerxes included several instruments rarely heard in operatic ensembles: the arch lute, baroque guitar, and theorbo a long-necked lute sometimes referred to as a chitarrone.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com George Heymont 2011
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The orchestra consisted of one lira doppia, one clavicembalo, one chitarrone and two flutes.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874
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The keyed instrument, of which our pianoforte is the living representative, had found its keyboard and a practical method of eliciting tones, which, whatever their weakness, were at least better than those of the lute, the chitarrone, the psaltery or harp.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874
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His direction as well as his playing on that exotic instrument, the chitarrone was as lively and spontaneous as it was meticulous in detail.
The Seattle Times 2010
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The choirs and directors were originators of the performances, but they always needed two cornetto players, a chitarrone player, two solo tenors and two sopranos who had the necessary coloratura.
The Seattle Times 2010
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VeryCD - 电驴资源订阅 2008
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