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The Byzantine lyra or lira (Greek: λύρα) was a medieval bowed string musical instrument in the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire. In its popular form, the...

different parts of Calabria. The Calabrian lira is closely related to the bowed lyra (Greek: λύρα) of the Byzantine Empire. The Persian geographer of the 9th...

origins of the lira in the region there are two schools of thought: The lira is an evolution of the medieval bowed lira of the Byzantine Empire, ancestor...

The lira (Turkish: Türk lirası; sign: ₺; ISO 4217 code: TRY; abbreviation: TL) is the official currency of Turkey and Northern Cyprus, as well as one of...

vielle, rebec, and lira da braccio. The history of bowed string instruments in Europe goes back to the 9th century with the Byzantine lira (or lūrā, Greek:...

century Ibn Khurradadhbih cited the bowed Byzantine lira (or lūrā) as a typical bowed instrument of the Byzantines and equivalent to the pear-shaped Arab...

deriving from the Byzantine lira (Ancient Greek: λύρα, Latin: lira, English: lyre), a bowed string instrument of the Byzantine Empire and ancestor of most...

these, the early bowed stringed instrument known as the Byzantine lyra, came to be called the lira da braccio, in Venice, where it is considered by many...

through the 15th centuries. The vielle possibly derived from the lira, a Byzantine bowed instrument closely related to the rebab, an Arab bowed instrument...

Look up lira or Lira in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lira is the unit of currency of various countries. Turkish lira Lebanese lira Syrian lira Pound...

List of bowed stringed instruments Music of Iran Music of Azerbaijan Byzantine lira Haegeum Rebab Silk Road Ensemble Global Minstrels: Voices of World Music...

the violin family may be descended in part from the lira da braccio and the medieval Byzantine lira. While the cello (which developed from the bass violin)...

of the Byzantine music and tradition, in a similar manner that lyra was introduced in other regions (e.g. the Lira da braccio and Calabrian lira in Italy...

are the rebab of the Islamic Empires, the Persian kamanche and the Byzantine lira. Other bowed instruments are the rebec, hardingfele, nyckelharpa, kokyū...

coinage systems, but when the country became unified in 1861, the Italian lira came into place, and was used until 2002. The term originates from libra...

rural culture. Music of Central Asia Bağlama Banhu Byzantine Lyra, the bowed lyre of the Byzantine Empire Chuurqin Cobza Dutar Dombra Erhu Gadulka Gudok...

The new Turkish lira (Turkish: Yeni Türk Lirası) was the currency of Turkey and the de facto independent state of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus...

became known as the lira da braccio (arm viol) family; the other, with sloping shoulders and held between the knees, was the lira da gamba (leg viol)...

Kulesi), also known as Leander's Tower (Tower of Leandros) since the Byzantine period, is a tower on a small islet at the southern entrance of the Bosphorus...

geographer Ibn Khurradadhbih (d. 911) describing the lira (lūrā) as a typical instrument within the Byzantine Empire. One of the earliest forms of the hurdy-gurdy...