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| The '''lute''' is a round-backed plucked-], developed in the Middle East and related to the Arabic ]. | The '''lute''' is a round-backed plucked-], developed in the Middle East and related to the Arabic ]. | ||
| The lute (its name a corruption of the Arabic) was brought to Europe in the ], but its heyday was the European ]. The lute at that time had a variable number of strings, tuned in a pattern of fourths and thirds, rather like a guitar. It was particularly suited for the harmonies of the period, and was used as a solo instrument no less than as an accompaniment to singers or other instruments (sometimes as a ] instrument). Lutes were made larger and more complex (see ], ]) over the course of the seventeenth century. Around the middle of the eighteenth century, musical tastes changed the instrument was abandoned. | The lute (its name a corruption of the Arabic) was brought to Europe in the ], but its heyday was the European ]. The lute at that time had a variable number of strings, tuned in a pattern of fourths and thirds, rather like a guitar. It was particularly suited for the harmonies of the period, and was used as a solo instrument no less than as an accompaniment to singers or other instruments (sometimes as a ] instrument). Lutes were made larger and more complex (see ], ]) over the course of the seventeenth century. Around the middle of the eighteenth century, musical tastes changed and the instrument was largely abandoned until the ] movements of the twentieth centruy brought about a revival. | ||
| Notable ]s of lute music include ], ], ], ], ], ] ,], ]. | Notable ]s of lute music include ], ], ], ], ], ] ,], ]. | ||
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The lute is a round-backed plucked-string instrument, developed in the Middle East and related to the Arabic oud.
The lute (its name a corruption of the Arabic) was brought to Europe in the Middle Ages, but its heyday was the European Renaissance. The lute at that time had a variable number of strings, tuned in a pattern of fourths and thirds, rather like a guitar. It was particularly suited for the harmonies of the period, and was used as a solo instrument no less than as an accompaniment to singers or other instruments (sometimes as a basso continuo instrument). Lutes were made larger and more complex (see archlute, theorbo) over the course of the seventeenth century. Around the middle of the eighteenth century, musical tastes changed and the instrument was largely abandoned until the original instruments movements of the twentieth centruy brought about a revival.
Notable composers of lute music include Francesco da Milano, John Dowland, Denis Gaultier, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Philip Rossiter ,Thomas Campion, Frederick the Great.