cithara

Definitions

Examples

• There remain then the lyre and the cithara for use in our city; and for shepherds in the country a syrinx (pan's pipes).'

• In another passage (c. 6) Plutarch says of the ancient music of the cithara that it was characterised by perfect simplicity.

• But when we come to the scales actually used on the chief Greek instrument, the cithara, the number falls at once to six.

• The Hypo-dorian octave is seen in two of the scales of the cithara given by Ptolemy (p. 85), viz.

• The learned differ as to the precise purpose of the Hymn, and some even exclude the invention of the cithara.