Des luths romains aux luths romans. Une enquête archéomusicale sur l’histoire des luths occidentaux avant le XIIIe siècle
Olivier Féraud
On the basis of iconographical studies and musical experiments, this paper aims to give an organological description necked plucked instruments that can be observed in Western medieval sources before diffusion arabo-andalousian lute 13th-century Europe. Underlining common traits with lutes represented greek roman iconography allows draw filiation between ancient romanic lutes. Furthermore, observation geographic distribution representations Early Middle Ages gives reason reflect on cultural relationships Carolingian Byzantine empires so far as they both could have encourage these not well-known instruments. Theses also information about their ties fiddles during introduction bow its route
SVMMA: Revista de Cultures Medievals