リラとその図像について(大会報告)

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The ancient Greek lyre which had a shell- or box-type sound box, two arms and a yoke, can be classified in several kinds : Phorminx, Cithara, Lyra, Barbitos and others. Phorminx is a four-string lyre and we find its figures on geometric style vases. Cithara, a box-type lyre, is represented by Greek painters mainly on blackfigured style vases, while Lyra, a shell-type lyre, on redfigured style vases. We know that the blackfigured style precedes the redfigured, so I suppose that Cithara was made earlier than Lyra. The ancient Roman lyre seems to be one of the variations of Greek Cithara, though its sound box is represented as quadrilateral or round in Roman painting and sculpture. In Italian Renaissance, many artists painted "lira da braccio" bowed instrument, as ancient lyre. For example, Apollo in Raphael's Parnassos is playing the lira da braccio. On the other hand the lyre, with curving arms and strings, was painted as ancient lyre. But the figure itself represents a mere musical instrument as symbol. Such an instrument cannot exist.
美学会の論文
1968-12-30