| 释义 |
‖ rotta Hist.|ˈrɒta|
Also rota.
[med.Lat.: see rote n.1]
+ rote n.1
1883Grove Dict. Mus. III. 179/1 Rota, or Rotta.., not, as might be supposed from its name, a species of vielle or hurdy-gurdy, but a species of psaltery or dulcimer, or primitive zither, employed in the middle ages in church music. It was played with the hand, guitar-fashion, and had seven strings mounted in a solid wooden frame. 1942E. Blom Music in England i. 12 A miniature in an eighth-century codex in the British Museum..shows King David playing on a rotta (a generic link between the lyre and the harp). 1964S. Marcuse Musical Instruments (1966) 102/2 In the 8th c., Cuthbert had mentioned the cithara that ‘we’ call rotta. 1977Early Music July 300/1 When the musicians and minstrels adopted it [sc. the ancient psaltery] for their own purposes,..they made its shape and form suitable to their convenience, applying additional strings and calling it by the vernacular name rotta. |