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Definition of Lutenists
1. lutenist [n] - See also: lutenist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lutenists
Literary usage of Lutenists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889): ...edited by Sir by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1890)
"Though no doubt deriving its origin from this early form, the method of Tablature
used by Lutenists differed from it altogether in principle, being founded, ..."
2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"This method, as will be seen, was a much more thorough-going one than that employed
by lutenists in setting their polyphonic arrangements. ..."
3. The Art of Music: A Comprehensive Library of Information for Music Lovers by Daniel Gregory Mason (1915)
"The lutenists were none such; they were essentially dilettanti and hence their
art, which was transmitted from ear to ear, has not been preserved to us. ..."
4. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"His mind, in the vesture of a doubting monk, stood often in shadow under the
windows of that age, to hear the grave and mocking music of the lutenists or ..."
5. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"His mind, in the vesture of a doubting monk, stood often in shadow under the
windows of that age, to hear the grave and mocking music of the lutenists or ..."
6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"In some of these he is called ' the elder,' as being the elder of the two lutenists
of the name, and ili- this which has given rise to the supposition that ..."
7. The Tatler by Joseph Addison, Alexander Chalmers, Richard Steele (1822)
"The Lutenists therefore are men of a fine genius, uncommon reflection, great
affability, and esteemed chiefly by persons of a good taste, who are the only ..."
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