See ribibe in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1850, “Augustin, court musician to the emperor Maximilian I.”, in Hugh James Rose, editor, A New General Biographical Dictionary, volume 2:",
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"ref": "1880, Emil Naumann, translated by F. Praeger, The History of Music, volume 1, pages 258–259:",
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"ref": "1911, Francis William Galpin, Old English Instruments of Music, page 81:",
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"ref": "1935, Mary Désirée Anderson, The Medieval Carver, page 86:",
"text": "Over the high-altar at Gloucester the bosses, which are foliated in the rest of the choir, represent angel-musicians, whose varied orchestra would have out-rivalled that of Nebuchadnezzar the King; harp, hutchet and psaltery; lute, clarion, shawm; bag-pipe, ribibe, gittern; bozine, symphony, cymbals; organ, tabor and timbrel, the very names ring in one's ears like the stately cadences of celestial music.",
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"text": "The Persian hunting scene, the Arabian ribibi. Here, that is, in Janequin we find ground for one of the basic dissociations of music.",
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