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REGINA M. MARRON.(Obit)
; ...Peter of Pittsford; 16 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren. Services: Saturday in Olean. Guenther Funeral Home, Olean, has arrangements. Contributions: Cithara Magazine, in care of St. Bonaventure University, Box 2519, St. Bonaventure 14778. Read more
Legacy bookshelf.(Recommended readings)
; ...Indigenous People an Act of Violence?: Willa Cather's Missionaries in Shadows on the Rock and Death Comes for the Archbishop. Cithara 46.2 (2007): 25-34. Laegreid, Renee M. The Good, the Bad, and the Ignored: Immigrants in Willa Cather's O Pioneers! Great Plains... Read more
LEGACY BOOKSHELF
; ...Indigenous People an Act of Violence?: Willa Gather's Missionaries in Shadows on the Rock and Death Comes for the Archbishop." Cithara 46.2 (2007): 25-34. Laegreid, Renee M. "The Good, the Bad, and the Ignored: Immigrants in Willa Gather's O Pioneers!" Great... Read more
DISCS: WORLD HHHHI Synaulia Music from Ancient Rome: Volume 2 ARCD 1002
; ...elsewhere with flutes - The Gladiator used two of his tracks - he now gives us the sounds of his reconstituted lyre, pan pipes, and cithara, in the modes known to have been used two millennia ago. Tricked out with vocal incantations by his daughter and her friends... Read more
Classical
; ...Part's recent (1992) Te Deum are most enjoyable. **** Dukat: Cithara Nova. Musica Florea. Supraphon SU3474-2 231 DUKAT is not a...composers and only three of his works are known to survive. The Cithara Nova is a set of 12 church cantatas for vocal soloists, two... Read more
Implements From The "Tomb Of The Poet"
; ...repairs, The stylus and the ink pot and the scraper, Wax tablets bound into a little book. Here is the tortoise shell for the cithara, Bored through with holes for strings, natural sound box. Here is the harp's wood triangle, all empty-- The sheep-gut having... Read more
IMPLEMENTS FROM THE "TOMB OF THE POET".(Poem)
; ...repairs, The stylus and the ink pot and the scraper, Wax tablets bound into a little book. Here is the tortoise shell for the cithara, Bored through with holes for strings, natural sound box. Here is the harp's wood triangle, all empty-- The sheep-gut having... Read more
Ancient & modern
; ...to send them rested to bed at night. A painter is said to have found that he got the best likenesses when he listened to the cithara. Music was even used to cure illness. Certain kinds of pipe music were said to help with fainting, epilepsy, sciatica and even... Read more
TIME OUT: Name the Year.(Features)
; ...in China after Chairman Mao's death? WHAT sport is the Melbourne Cup associated with? WHERE did the musical instrument the cithara originate? WHEN did Prokofiev write the opera The Love for Three Oranges? remember when ... 1 TV pioneer John Logie Baird died... Read more
Diet of oceanic loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the central North Pacific.
; ...accounted for four of the five most common prey taxa. The most common prey items were Janthina spp. (Gastropoda); Carinaria cithara Benson 1835 (Heteropoda); a chondrophore, Velella velella (Hydrodia); Lepas spp. (Cirripedia), Planes spp. (Decapoda: Grapsidae... Read more

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zither
zither XIX. — G. zither (OHG. cithara , zitera ) CITHER . Also zithern XIX; after CITHERN . Read more
kit
kit2 (arch.) small fiddle. XVI. perh. deduced from the first syll. of L. cithara , Gr. kithárā CITHER . Read more
-ist
...the vb.-stem, as in baptistés BAPTIST . Several Gr. words were adopted into classical L. (e.g. citharista player on the cithara, grammatista grammarian), and many more by Christian writers (e.g. baptista , psalmista ); later the suffix came into regular... Read more
kithara
or cithara , musical instrument of the ancient Greeks. It was a plucked instrument, a larger and stronger form of the lyre , used by professional... Read more
cithern
cithern, cittern instrument of the guitar kind. XVI. — L. cithara (see above), crossed with GITTERN . Read more

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