rebab

A patient takes her methadone dose at a Porto rebab center that is part of Portugal's decadelong experiment with drug decriminalization.

At 10, Portugal's Drug Law Draws New Scrutiny 2010

Lead instruments like the psaltery (an early harp) and the vielle (a primitive violin with a characteristically scraping tone) are played over plucked-string rhythm instruments like the oud, rebab, and saz.

The Dufay Collective, Music For Alfonso The Wise (harmonia mundi, 2005) smg58 2007

I wish my freshman experience had been this normal well, minus the rebab.

Sandman/Gaiman yendi 2004

I also told him that we all collectivley demand that he take advantage of any rebab, physical therapy, and nutritional help that the hospital can give him--we don't want to see him back in the cardio recovery ward--and that got a faint nod and another thumbs up.

Archive 2004-02-01 2004

The _barbat_ was a variety of _rebab_ (_q. v._), a bass instrument, differing only in size and number of strings.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

The leader's instrument is the two-stringed fiddle (_rebab_), almost exactly the same as the Siamese

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various

There were but slight differences if any between the archetypes of the pear-shaped rebab and of the lute before the application of the bow to the former -- both had vaulted backs, body and neck in one, and gut strings plucked by the fingers.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

The barbiton, however, although it underwent many changes, retained until the end the characteristics of the instruments of the Greek lyre whose strings were plucked, whereas the rebab was sounded by means of the bow at the time of its introduction into Europe.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

Possibly an impulse was given the fiddle by the Moorish rebab, brought into Spain in the eighth century, but ancient Celtic bards had long before this used a bow instrument -- the chrotta or crwth, derived from the lyre, which was introduced by the Romans in their colonizing expeditions.

For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music Aubertine Woodward Moore 1885

While Savall rang the changes with three medieval bowed instruments - the rebab, rebec, and vielle - Psonis played the santur zither, the Moorish guitar, and a selection of Middle-Eastern drums: the human voice soared above a subtly-shifting kaleidoscope of instrumental colour.

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