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Part of these collections: Baroque Lute Customers who bought Doc Rossi also bought: Magnatune Compilation Monks and Choirs of Kiev Pechersk Lavra Stephane Potvin and the Con Brio Choir John Williams ... Christopher of the Wolves Doc Rossi baroque cittern - Demarzi-6 Sonatas for Cetra o Kitara play hifi lofi license BUY Pasqualini Demarzi - Six Sonatas for Cetra or Kitara plus a selection of Irish tunes The Instruments Another difference is the variety of shapes used in the 18th century; whereas the Renaissance cittern was more or less fig- shaped, a form that persisted and dominated into the 18th century and beyond, many examples of 18th-century cittern can be found in the shape of a pear, a figure-eight (like the guitar), an almond (sometimes with a bowled back, like the lute and mandolin), with pointed "shoulders", and even undulating shapes resembling a cloud or shell, reminiscent of the Renaissance Orpharion and Bandora. French makers produced a number of elegant, asymmetrical instruments with extra basses, and others with two necks - one long and one short - for tuning at two different pitches. The adjective "English" seems to have been used in the 18th- century to distinguish the cittern-type instrument from other types of guitar when that became necessary. The earliest occurrence that I have been able to find comes from colonial America: on 12 November 1764, and again on 3 August 1767, ex- patriot German Jacob Trippell announced in the New York Gazette that he made and repaired "all sorts of [...] English and Spanish Guittars". Others speak of Italian, French and German guitars as well, not to mention the "Italian pocket guitar". The term "English guitar" is used today by some scholars to distinguish the 18th-century cittern from the Renaissance variety. | |
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