How to use cithara in a sentence
There remain then the lyre and the cithara for use in our city; and for shepherds in the country a syrinx (pan's pipes).'
The Modes of Ancient Greek Music | David Binning MonroIn another passage (c. 6) Plutarch says of the ancient music of the cithara that it was characterised by perfect simplicity.
The Modes of Ancient Greek Music | David Binning MonroBut when we come to the scales actually used on the chief Greek instrument, the cithara, the number falls at once to six.
The Modes of Ancient Greek Music | David Binning MonroThe Hypo-dorian octave is seen in two of the scales of the cithara given by Ptolemy (p. 85), viz.
The Modes of Ancient Greek Music | David Binning MonroThe learned differ as to the precise purpose of the Hymn, and some even exclude the invention of the cithara.
The Homeric Hymns | Andrew Lang
British Dictionary definitions for cithara
kithara
/ (ˈsɪθərə) /
a stringed musical instrument of ancient Greece and elsewhere, similar to the lyre and played with a plectrum
Origin of cithara
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