534c3: Lute (bowed)

534c3: Lute (bowed)

Description

The same characteristics are important for bowed lutes as for plucked lutes, except the manner in which they are played. Bowed lutes are primarily played with a bow.

Examples:

Viols (fretted neck), fiddles, violins, viola, cello, double bass, and hurdy-gurdy (no frets)

Context for this page:

Ocm module: Lute (bowed)
In ocm module: Chordophones
In ocm module: Musical instruments
In modular book: Expanded ethnomusicology categories for the Outline of Cultural Materials, by Kenneth R. Hollingsworth
In bookshelf: Anthropology

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 21 March 1999