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By the way.... just in case you arrived here looking for the Glasgow Orpheus Choir, you'll find what you want by linking to the Glasgow Phoenix Choir web site. |
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| Some History | This is really just an index arranged in chronological
order. The history is scarcely exhaustive - and is only my opinion. So far, it takes us only to the date of the earliest published lute music. That makes it inevitable that (as is so often the case) one must write about music without hearing it. That shortcoming will be amended as soon as possible. |
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Mesopotamian terracotta reliefs showing lute type instruments from the second millennium BC. |
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Muse playing a Lute(?), late 4th century BC., Greece. |
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Invention of al'ud, in Mecca, 685. |
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Stuttgart Psalter, ca.830. |
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Cantigas de Santa Maria, (Spanish, ca.1270). |
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Masaccio: Enthroned Madonna and Child, 1426.
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Luca della Robbia: Florence, Campanile of the
Cathedral, Music (Orpheus), 1439. |
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Bust of Marsilio Ficino (fl. 1460). .Duomo, Florence. |
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Henri Arnault of Zwolle, ca. 1460. |
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Francesco del Cossa: Detail of Triumph of Venus (ca.1470). |
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Francesco del Cossa: Orpheus (ca.1470). |
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Piero della Francesca: The Nativity (Probably 1470s). |
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Sandro Botticelli: Primavera, ca.1478. |
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Melozzo da Forli: Angel with Lute, ca.1480, Vatican Museum. |
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Death of Orpheus. Anonymous Ferrarese: ca.1480. |
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Petrus de Abano: Commentary on the Problemata of Aristotle (1482). |
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Costa: A Concert (About 1488). |
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Attributed to Albrecht Durer, in Sebastian Brant: Narrenschiff, 1494. |
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Franchino Gafori: Practica musice, 1496. |
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Mantegna: Parnassus, 1497. |
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Luigi Pulci: Recitation with lira da braccio accompaniment (ca. 1500). |
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Leonardo (Associate): An Angel in Red with a Lute (Before 1506). |
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Francesco Spinacino: Intabolatura de Lauto, Petrucci, Venice, 1507. |
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Titian: Fête Champêtre, 1508. |
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