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Norton & Company, Inc., page 275:", "text": "The first evidence of the Byzantine lira is in a Persian literary source of the ninth century.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1976, Musicological Annual, page 118:", "text": "Some instruments comprise types which are found, more or less unchanged, also with various nations and periods (recorder, shawm), whereas others belong to smaller regions (byzantine lira, rectangular harp) or only to the territory of Serbia and Macedonia (drums, larger shawms, especially in the Turkish period).", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1977, Laurence Wright, “The Medieval Gittern and Citole: A Case of Mistaken Identity”, in The Galpin Society Journal:", "text": "Being an approximate synonym of cithara, the word lyra is most often applied to the harp, but one also finds it interpreted as the Germanic lyre, Byzantine lira (equated in turn with the Arabic rebab), hurdy-gurdy, citole or gittern, lute, etc.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Alternative form of lyra" ], "links": [ [ "lyra", "lyra#English" ] ], "tags": [ "alt-of", "alternative" ] } ], "wikipedia": [ "lira" ], "word": "lira" }
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