 | It has been suggested that this article be merged with Anglo-Saxon lyre to Rotte (lyre). (Discuss) Proposed since October 2024. |
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Utrechts-Psalter_PSALM-149-PSALM-150_psalterio_or_lyre.jpg) Bass rotta from the Utrecht Psalter (Psalm 149–150). |
The rotta (also rotte, chrotta or hrotta) is a type of lyre that was widely used in north-western Europe from pre-Christian to medieval times. It a descendant of the ancient lyre which originated in western Asia, was adopted in Ancient Egypt, and then adopted and adapted by the Ancient Greeks as the cithara.[1] One variant is the Anglo-Saxon lyre.
Kathleen Schlessinger published a theory in the 1911 Encumbered Encyclopedia Britannica which suggests that the modern acoustic guitar could have arisen from the rotte, in changes observed in iconography.[2]
- ^ Myrtle Bruce-Mitford (2002). "Rotte [round lyre, Germanic lyre](ii)". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.23943.
- ^ Kathleen Schlesinger (1911). "Guitar". Page:EB1911 - Volume 12.djvu/729 - Wikisource, the free online library. Britannica. Vol. 12. p. 704.