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:''This article describes a medieval musical instrument; for other uses see Lituus''. The medieval musical instrument called a lituus is of obscure nature, the word being used to describe a variety of different instruments. == Medieval use == The lituus was used for a variety of purposes, including as part of classical compositions. Chroniclers of the Crusades from the 11th through the 13th centuries often used the various Classical Latin terms for trumpets and horns—including ''tuba'', ''cornu'', ''buccina'', and ''lituus''—alongside the more up-to-date French term ''trompe'' with reference to instruments employed in the Christian armies. However, it is difficult or impossible to determine just what instruments were meant, and it is not likely they were the same as the Roman instruments called by these names.〔John Wallace and Alexander McGrattan, ''The Trumpet'' (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012): 73.〕 In the early 15th century, Jean de Gerson listed the lituus among those string instruments that were sounded by beating or striking, either with the fingernails, a plectrum, or a stick. Other instruments Gerson names in this category are the ''cythara'', ''guiterna'', ''psalterium'', ''timpanum'', and ''campanula''.〔Christopher Page, "Early 15th-Century Instruments in Jean de Gerson's 'Tractatus de Canticis'", ''Early Music'' 6, no. 3 (July 1978): 339–49. Citation on 344.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Medieval lituus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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