Definition of zither in English:
zither
noun ˈzɪðə
A musical instrument consisting of a flat wooden soundbox with numerous strings stretched across it, placed horizontally and played with the fingers and a plectrum. It is used especially in central European folk music.
- With harps, gourds, lutes and zithers, the album takes the listener on a journey through the band's life.
- The guqin, a seven-stringed zither, is the oldest of China's stringed instruments, dating back some 3,000 years.
- Soon after his arrival in Vienna, Carol Reed heard a local musician, Anton Karas, playing an odd sort of Austrian guitar, called a zither.
- Some fished in clear deep waters and fish would swim over for their bait; some played the zither and the gulls would remain docile and uninterrupted.
- Lauper has performed on a number of instruments including guitar, dulcimer, zither, recorder, bass recorder, omnichord, banjo, ukelele, tin whistle, and drums among others.
- European zithers are all box zithers: that is, the soundboard forms the upper surface of a wooden resonator box.
- Accompanying Urna is her German husband and producer Robert Zollitsch, who also played the zither and performed Mogolian throat singing.
- The whole village is gathered in a noisy sports hall, sipping local wines, while listening to a morbid folk song played on a second-hand zither.
- Ancient instruments used for court music include zithers, flutes, reed instruments, and percussion.
- Or, speaking of Steiner, would Gone with the Wind be reduced in epic scope or refined in aesthetic taste were it scored with the zithers of The Third Man?
- The ballad form, which was most popular between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, often involved pastoral tales sung to the accompaniment of a lute or zither.
- They also show me the instruments they keep in the forest - the flutes, bow-harps, zithers and drums that are used in the music.
- In addition to a weaving violin and a zither that sends chills down your spine, there is a solo voice - similar to the muezzin's call from the minarets - that is full of heartbreaking longing.
- The Third Man is very much a jape - a sardonic waltz set to the mocking gaiety of its infectious zither theme.
- Then he reaches for a what appears to be a fun-sized zither and picks out the melody to ‘I Thought’.
- The instrumentation includes a fairground organ and a zither.
- They've grown up and want us to realise it; this album is more low key and features an impressive array of instruments including a ukulele, zithers, brass and strings.
- First he trained his wife on how to play the zither.
- He's heard here both solo and backed by zither and percussion.
- The eight-stringed zither on which the old geezer accompanies himself has a really funky tone; he adds mouth percussion between stanzas.
Derivatives
zitherist
- Japan sent 13 zitherists to the festival, the highest number of representatives.
- She was taught by her mother, Qu Yun, a well-known zitherist.
- The bowed zither may seem strange, but is exactly what it appears to be - a violin for zitherists.
- Harpist and zitherists as a rule only use the thumb and three fingers.
- It became more and more an integral part of his sense of the film and finally he decided that the whole score should be provided by the zitherist.
noun
Origin
Mid 19th century: from German, from Latin cithara (see cittern).
Rhymes
dither, hither, slither, swither, thither, whither, wither
Definition of zither in US English:
zither
noun
A musical instrument consisting of a flat wooden sound box with numerous strings stretched across it, placed horizontally and played with the fingers and a plectrum. It is used especially in central European folk music.
- Some fished in clear deep waters and fish would swim over for their bait; some played the zither and the gulls would remain docile and uninterrupted.
- The ballad form, which was most popular between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, often involved pastoral tales sung to the accompaniment of a lute or zither.
- Ancient instruments used for court music include zithers, flutes, reed instruments, and percussion.
- They've grown up and want us to realise it; this album is more low key and features an impressive array of instruments including a ukulele, zithers, brass and strings.
- Lauper has performed on a number of instruments including guitar, dulcimer, zither, recorder, bass recorder, omnichord, banjo, ukelele, tin whistle, and drums among others.
- European zithers are all box zithers: that is, the soundboard forms the upper surface of a wooden resonator box.
- The eight-stringed zither on which the old geezer accompanies himself has a really funky tone; he adds mouth percussion between stanzas.
- The guqin, a seven-stringed zither, is the oldest of China's stringed instruments, dating back some 3,000 years.
- In addition to a weaving violin and a zither that sends chills down your spine, there is a solo voice - similar to the muezzin's call from the minarets - that is full of heartbreaking longing.
- First he trained his wife on how to play the zither.
- The whole village is gathered in a noisy sports hall, sipping local wines, while listening to a morbid folk song played on a second-hand zither.
- Or, speaking of Steiner, would Gone with the Wind be reduced in epic scope or refined in aesthetic taste were it scored with the zithers of The Third Man?
- The instrumentation includes a fairground organ and a zither.
- He's heard here both solo and backed by zither and percussion.
- With harps, gourds, lutes and zithers, the album takes the listener on a journey through the band's life.
- Soon after his arrival in Vienna, Carol Reed heard a local musician, Anton Karas, playing an odd sort of Austrian guitar, called a zither.
- Then he reaches for a what appears to be a fun-sized zither and picks out the melody to ‘I Thought’.
- Accompanying Urna is her German husband and producer Robert Zollitsch, who also played the zither and performed Mogolian throat singing.
- The Third Man is very much a jape - a sardonic waltz set to the mocking gaiety of its infectious zither theme.
- They also show me the instruments they keep in the forest - the flutes, bow-harps, zithers and drums that are used in the music.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from German, from Latin cithara (see cittern).