This lowering tendency towards the low church pitch, and the final adoption of the latter as a general mean pitch throughout the 18th century, was no doubt influenced by the introduction of the violin, which would not bear the high tension to which the lutes and viols had been strained. [Please select]
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Yet this noise, though distressing, was as musical as harps and lutes to the mother's ears; and while old Mrs. [Please select]
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"Happy," says he, "is the union with wife and children; it is like the music of lutes and harps." [Please select]
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The music changed into a disordered and wild outburst of citharas, lutes, Armenian cymbals, Egyptian sistra, trumpets, and horns. [Please select]
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There were seen harps, Grecian lutes, lutes of the Hebrews and Egyptians, lyres, formingas, citharas, flutes, long, winding buffalo horns and cymbals. [Please select]
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After him followed the Augustians and a choir of singers, bearing citharæ, lutes, and other musical instruments. [Please select]
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Orpheus and Agne followed next to Herse and the steward, and after them came two slaves, carrying the lutes and pipes. [Please select]
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The red blood should become the rich red burgundy; the sound of trumpets and kettledrums should give way to the melody of lutes and viols. [Please select]
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It seems to have been at this moment that Horemheb appeared, while the clouds of incense streamed up to heaven, and the morning air was full of the sound of the harps and the lutes. [Please select]
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