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Cithara and Lyre

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Difference between Cithara and Lyre

Cithara vs. Lyre

The cithara or kithara (translit, cithara) was an ancient Greek musical instrument in the lyre or lyra family. The lyre (λύρα, lýra) is a string instrument known for its use in Greek classical antiquity and later periods.

Similarities between Cithara and Lyre

Cithara and Lyre have 16 things in common (in Unionpedia): Aegean Sea, Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek, Annie Bélis, Barbiton, Crwth, Greek mythology, Guitar, Harp, Kinnor, Lute, Phorminx, Plectrum, Sound box, Terpander, Zither.

Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea (Αιγαίο Πέλαγος; Ege Denizi) is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the Greek and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey.

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Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 13th–9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (AD 600).

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Ancient Greek

The Ancient Greek language includes the forms of Greek used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD.

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Annie Bélis

Annie Bélis is a French archaeologist, philologist, papyrologist and musician.

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Barbiton

The barbiton, or barbitos (Gr: βάρβιτον or βάρβιτος; Lat. barbitus), is an ancient stringed instrument known from Greek and Roman classics related to the lyre.

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Crwth

The crwth, also called a crowd or rote, is a bowed lyre, a type of stringed instrument, associated particularly with Welsh music and with medieval folk music of England, now archaic but once widely played in Europe.

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Harp

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.

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Kinnor

Kinnor (כִּנּוֹר) is an ancient Israelite musical instrument, the exact identification of which is unclear, but in the modern day is generally translated as "harp" or "lyre", and associated with a type of lyre depicted in Israelite imagery, particular the Bar Kochba coins.

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Lute

A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.

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Phorminx

The phorminx (in Ancient Greek φόρμιγξ) was one of the oldest of the Ancient Greek stringed musical instruments, intermediate between the lyre and the kithara.

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Plectrum

A plectrum is a small flat tool used to pluck or strum a stringed instrument.

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Sound box

A sound box or sounding box (sometimes written soundbox) is an open chamber in the body of a musical instrument which modifies the sound of the instrument, and helps transfer that sound to the surrounding air.

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Terpander

Terpander (Τέρπανδρος Terpandros), of Antissa in Lesbos, was a Greek poet and citharede who lived about the first half of the 7th century BC.

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Zither

Zither is a class of stringed instruments.

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Cithara and Lyre Comparison

Cithara has 42 relations, while Lyre has 123. As they have in common 16, the Jaccard index is 9.70% = 16 / (42 + 123).

References

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