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	Kithara means harp, plus fltue and cello Newspaper article from: Arlington Heights Post (IL); 9/25/2003; 440 words ; ...exactly extensive. But the musicians in the Kithara Trio, who perform Sunday in Palatine...lot of possibility," she said. The Kithara Trio -- named after the Greek word for...other works that would adapt well to the Kithara Trio format. "A lot of the music that...
	KITHARA TRIO, FLUTE, CELLO, HARP, TO PERFORM AT HARPER COLLEGE ON SEPT. 29 News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/19/2006; 457 words ; ...English Country Garden of Music" will be performed by the the Kithara Trio, on flute, cello and harp, when they appear at 7...whose sonata movements are named for flowers. Members of the Kithara Trio include Faye Seeman, harp; Jill Kaeding, cello; and...
	CITY BRIEFS Newspaper article from: Sun Publications (IL); 1/22/1999; 700+ words ; ...e-mail to gradadm(at)wheaton.edu. KITHARA TRIO CONCERT HONORS CHICAGO FLUTIST The Kithara Trio will honor the late Dr. Margaret Neuhaus...Conservatory Dean George Arisomowicz. The Kithara Trio, named after the Greek word for harp...
	Harpist adds lots of pluck to season.(Neighbor)(Palatine) Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 12/18/2003; 554 words ; ...Chicago Sinfonietta Orchestra and the Kithara Trio, which she founded in 1981. The...Evening of French Chamber Music" and "A Kithara Wonderland," a holiday CD of selections...For more information, about Seeman or Kithara Trio, send e-mail to kitharatri...
	NEWS TIP SHEET, WEEK OF SEPT. 18 News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/18/2006; 700+ words ; ...includes a cup of coffee and desert. On September 29, the Kithara Trio, on flute, cello and harp, will bring its serene sounds...sonnet whose movements are named for flowers. Members of the Kithara Trio include Faye Seeman, harp; Jilly Kaeding, cello; and...
	How they made a joyful noise; To celebrate National Bible Week, Nov. 21-28, we decided to listen in on the music of the ancient Mideast.(THE HOME FORUM) Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 11/23/2004; 700+ words ; ...in the book of Revelation describes an instrument called the kithara. The sound of it is compared to the rushing of many waters...rolling of thunder. A Roman instrument of the time called a kithara was a type of lyre. Have you ever heard of a sackbut? It...
	Emperor Nero, the nice guy who only wanted to entertain Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/24/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Quo Vadis. Although Nero was indeed an expert player of the kithara, an instrument similar to a lyre, he was not in Rome when...way Peter Ustinov does in the film and plunked away on his kithara in the midst of the flames is just false," Mr Holland said...
	Newspaper article from: Courier News (Elgin, IL); 9/29/2006; 700+ words ; ...birthday party packages are available. (630) 584-6342. SoundCheck Kithara Trio: Ever wonder what An English Country Garden of Music sounds like? Find out when the Kithara Trio, on flute, cello and harp, performs songs from the CD at 7...
	Songs of the open road Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 1/30/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...43tone scale on the Chromolodeon (Partch's retuned reed organ): Most helpful is the transcription of the part for Surrogate Kithara, a struck-string, harplike instrument whose tuning is difficult to decipher from the instructions in Partch's book Genesis...
	The Score; Classical, Jazz, & Avant Magazine article from: The Stranger; 2/17/2005; ; 687 words ; ...Partch (1901-1974), took the radical step of designing and building his own orchestra of instruments. Some, such as the Kithara, Harmonic Canon, and the Marimba Eroica, were derived from Asian, African, and other ancient instruments. Others craftily...

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	Timotheus Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Timotheus , c.450-c.357 BC, Greek poet and musician of Miletus. An innovator in music, he added a string to the kithara. Fragments of his dithyrambs and nomes remain. Euripides wrote the prologue for his Persae, a lyric nome.
	lyre Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...ancient times Sumer, Babylonia, Israel, and Egypt had various sorts of lyres. Ancient Greece had two lyres—the kithara , which was the larger instrument used by the professional musician, and the lyra, the smaller instrument of the amateur...
	Jewish liturgical music Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...accompanied by instruments. The first instruments mentioned in the Bible are the kinnor, evidently a lyre similar to the kithara , and the ugab, possibly a vertical flute. Other instruments, more of ceremonial than of musical value, included the hasosra...