rabel
The rabel (or arrabel, robel, rovel) is a bowed stringed instrument from Spain, a rustic folk-fiddle descended from the medieval rebec, with both perhaps descended from the Arab rabab. The instrument generally has two or three strings of gut or steel, or sometimes twisted horse-hair. The instrument is first mentioned in the 12th century, and it is still used in parts of Latin America, as well as the Spanish provinces of Cantabria and Asturias.
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The rabel (or arrabel, robel, rovel) is a bowed stringed instrument from Spain, a rustic folk-fiddle descended from the medieval rebec, with both perhaps descended from the Arab rabab. The instrument generally has two or three strings of gut or steel, or sometimes twisted horse-hair. The instrument is first mentioned in the 12th century, and it is still used in parts of Latin America, as well as the Spanish provinces of Cantabria and Asturias.
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The rebel is often associates with secular instrumental music, and the most common rabel used in the Middles ages was the soprano.
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Igurtzitako hariak (1) [1] Arrabita Rabela Biolina
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• Name — Rabel • Background — string • Classification — String instrument • Hornbostel Sachs Desc — Composite chordophone • Related — Rebec, Rabeca • Illustration — Rabelista (Rabel player)
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Hodder and Stoughton. The Congregationalist. 219–. 1874.
- 2.The University of Michigan. Catalogue of the Stearns collection of musical instruments. 196–. 1921.
- 3.Luisa Lacál. Diccionario de la música, téchico, histórico, bio-bibliográfico. S.F. de Sales. 428–. 1899.
- 4.University of California Press. Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music. 216–. 1992. 978-0-520-21081-3.
- 5.Garland Publishing. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Southeast Asia. 991–. 1998. 978-0-8240-6040-4.
- 6.Rebec Musica Antiqua. www.music.iastate.edu.
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