rebec
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rebec
1745–55; < Middle French; replacing Middle English ribibe < Old French rebebe ≪ Arabic rabāb rebab
Example Sentences
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The vocal parts suggest everything from Gregorian chant to folk song, the orchestra includes such authentic curiosities as a rebec, a vielle and a minstrel's harp.
From Time Magazine Archive
The action is accompanied by music suggestive of everything from Gregorian chant to folk song, played on reproductions of such authentic medieval instruments as a psaltery, a rebec, a minstrel's harp.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rebec was not known in Arabia until nearly two centuries after we find the crwth mentioned by Venance Fortunatus.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)
And it was so ready with refrains and lays and songs and new tunes, that harp, or viol, or rebec were as nought beside it.
From Tales from the Old French by Various
It was the Arab rebec that afforded the starting point for the modern violin, and this instrument was not known in Europe until it came in by way of the crusaders or the Spanish Arabs.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)
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