Articles

Harwood, Ian. "Bandora." New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. 

Harwood, Ian. "Orpharion." New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. 

Harwood, Ian and Tyler, James. "Cittern." New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. 

Tyler, James. "Ceterone." New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. 

Tyler, James. "Cithrinchen." New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. 

Hawkins, Sir John. "Cittern." A general history of the science and practice of music. London (1875)

Kinsky, Georg. Katalog des Musikhostorichen Museums von Wilhelm Heyer in Koln Zweiter Band. Koln (1912)

Pulver, Jeffrey. "The barber's cittern." Monthly Musical Record 46. (1916)

Voigt, Alban. "Die Cithern (Citole, Cittern, Cithren, Cythren, Citharn, Cither, Cistre, etc)." Deutsche Instrumentenbau Zeitung 37. (1936)

Gombosi, Otto. "Ad vocem cithara, citharista." Acta Musicoligica 9. (1937)

Bullock-Davies, Constance. "Menestrellorum Multitudo, minstrels at a royal feast." Cardiff (1938)

Winternitz, Emanuel. "Quattrocento Science in the Gubbio Study." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, Vol. 1, No. 2. (Oct 1942) pp. 104-116

Roscoe, P. C. "George Rush: A Forgotten English Composer." The Musical Times Vol. 87, No. 1244. (Oct 1946) pp. 297-299

Dart, Thurston. "The Cittern and its English Music." The Galpin Society Journal 1. (1948) pp. 46-63 [See also Deutsch, "[Correction]: The Cittern and Its English Music." The Galpin Society Journal , Mar., 1949, Vol. 2 (Mar., 1949), p. 31

Baines, Anthony. "Fifteenth-Century Instruments in Tinctoris', De inventione et usu musicae." The Galpin Society Journal 3. (1950) pp. 19-26

Byler, Arthur W. "The music for cittern and gittern in the Mulliner Book." Journal of the American Musicological Society 5. (1952)

Fortune, Nigel. "An Italian arch-cittern." The Galpin Society Journal 5. (1952)

Fortune, Nigel. "Giustiniani on Instruments." The Galpin Society Journal, 5. (Mar 1952) pp.48-54

Reinhard, Kurt. "Cister." Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart 2. (1952)

Stevens, D. The Mulliner Book: a Commentary. London (1952)

Dart, Thurston. "Notes and Queries: English Cittern Music." The Galpin Society Journal 6. (1953) pp. 112-113

Finlay, Ian F.. "Musical Instruments in 17th-Century Dutch Paintings." The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 6. (Jul 1953) pp. 52-69

Dart, Thurston. "The Instruments in the Ashmolean Museum." The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 7. (Apr 1954) pp. 7-10

Crane, Frederick Baron. Athanasius Kircher, Musurgia Universalis (Rome, 1650): the section on musical instruments. MA thesis. University of Iowa (1956)

Oldham, Guy F. "Import and Export Duties on Musical Instruments in 1660." The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 9. (Jun 1956) pp. 97-98

Tilmouth, Michael. "Some Improvements in Music Noted by William Turner in 1697." The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 10. (May 1957) pp. 57-59

Devoto, Daniel. "Metamorphoses d'une cithare." Revue de Musicologie 41. (1958)

Gill, Donald. "An Orpharion by John Rose." The Lute Society Journal. (1960)

Gill, Donald. "The Orpharion and Bandora." The Galpin Society Journal. (1960)

Jeans, Susie and Oldham, Guy. "The Drawings of Musical Instruments in MS Add. 30342 at the British Museum." The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 13. (Jul 1960) pp. 26-31

Lesure, François, ed. "Recueils imprimés, XVIe-XVIIe siècles,." RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales) B/I/1. (1960)

Winternitz, Emanuel. "The survival of the kithara and the evolution of the cittern." Hinrichsen, Music Libraries and Instruments (1961). pp. 209-214 [A paper read at the IAML/Galpin Society Joint Congress, Cambridge, 1959.]

Gill, Donald. "James Talbot's Manuscript (Christ Church Library Music Ms 1187): V Plucked Strings - The Wire-strung Fretted Instruments and the Guitar." The Galpin Society Journal 15. (1962) pp. 60-69

Lesure, François. "Pierre Trichet's 'Traité des Instruments de Musique:' Supplement." The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 15. (Mar 1962) pp. 70-81

Charnassé, Hélène. "Sur la transcription des recueils de cistre édité par Adrien le Roy et Robert Ballard (1564-1565)." Revue de Musicologie 49. (1963) pp. 184-202

Lesure, François. "Pierre Trichet's 'Traité des Instruments de Musique:' Supplement (continued)." The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 16. (May 1963) pp. 73-84

Guichard, Leon. "Le cistre de Rousseau." Revue de Musicologie 50. (1964)

Rastall, Richard. "The minstrels of the English royal households." Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 4. (1964)

Waldbauer, Ivan. The Cittern in the Sixteenth Century and its Music in France and the Low Countries. Dissertation. Harvard University (1964)

Jeffery, Brian. "Instrumentation in The Music of Antony Holborne." The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 19. (Apr 1966) pp. 20-26

Schweizer, Gottfried. "Frankfurter Renaissance der Cister." Das Musikinstrument 16. (1967)

Winternitz, Emanuel. Musical Instruments and their Symbolism in Western Art. New York (1967, 2/1979)

Dart, Thurston. "Music and Musical Instruments in Cotgrave's Dictionarie (1611)." The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 21. (Mar 1968) pp. 70-80

Jeffery, Brian. "Anthony Holborne." Musica Disciplina 22. (1968) pp. 129-205

Testi, F. La musica italiana nel Medioevo e nel Rinascimento. Milan (1969)

Boetticher, Wolfgang. "On Vulgar Music and Poetry Found in Unexplored Minor Sources of Eighteenth-Century Lute Tablatures." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Music: a Tribute to Karl Geiringer, ed. H.C.R. Landon and R.E. Chapman. New York and London (1970) pp. 76-85

Danner, Peter. "Dd.4.23 or English Cittern Music Revisited." Journal of The Lute Society of America III. (1970) pp. 1-12

Hellwig, Friedemann. "Makers' Marks on Plucked Instruments of the 16th and 17th Centuries." The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 24. (Jul 1971) pp. 22-32

Nordstrom, Lyle. "The Cambridge Consort Books." Journal of The Lute Society of America V. (1972) pp. 70-103

Godwin, Joscelyn. "Fludd on the Lute and Pandora." The Lute Society Journal. (1973)

Godwin, Joscelyn. "Instruments in Robert Fludd's Utriusque Cosmi Historia." The Galpin Society Journal 26. (1973) pp. 2-14

Hadaway, Robert. "The Cittern." Early Music 1. (1973) pp. 77-81

Kanazawa, Masakata, ed. The Complete Works of Anthony Holborne 2. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA (1973)

Weigand, George. "The Cittern Repertoire." Early Music 1. (1973)

Abbot, Djilda and Segerman, Ephraim. "Strings in the 16th and 17th Centuries." The Galpin Society Journal 27. (1974) pp. 49-73 [NB: errata corrected in GSJ 28, (1975).]

Buetens, Stanley. "Review of The Renaissance of the Cittern, The Festival Consort." Journal of the The Lute Society of America Vol. 7. (1974) p.109

Dobson, Charles; Segerman, Ephraim; and Tyler, James. "The Tunings of the Four-course French Cittern and of the Four-course Guitar in the Sixteenth Century." The Lute Society Journal 16. (1974) pp. 17-23

Edwards, Warwick. "The Walsingham Consort Books." Music & Letters Vol. 55, No. 2. (Apr 1974) pp. 209-214

Geiser, Brigitte. "Cister und Cistermacher in der Schweiz." Festschrift Ernst Emsheimer. Studia Instrumentorum Musicae Popularis 3. (1974)

Goodman, W.L. "Musical Instruments and Their Makers in Bristol Apprentice Register, 1536-1643." The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 27. (May 1974) pp. 9-14

Holman, Peter. "Cittern References." Early Music Vol. 2, No. 3. (July 1974) p. 203

Tyler, James. "A Checklist for the Cittern." Early Music 2. (1974) pp. 25-29

Abbot, Djilda and Segerman, Ephraim. "The Cittern in England Before 1700." The Lute Society Journal 17. (1975) pp. 24-48

Hadaway, Robert. "An Instrument-Maker's Report on the Repair and Restoration of an Orpharion." The Galpin Society Journal 28. (1975) pp. 37-42

Abbot, Djilda and Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 16 Palmer orpharion." FoMRHI Quarterly 3. (Apr 1976)

Collins, David. "A 16th C Manuscript in Wood (Eglantine Table)." Early Music. (July 1976)

Hellwig, Friedmann. "Strings and Stringing: Contemporary Documents." The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 29. (May 1976) pp. 91-104

Munrow, David. Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. (1976)

Segerman, Ephraim and Abbot,t, Djilda. "Stringed Instruments on the Eglantine Table." Early Music Vol. 4, No. 4. (Oct 1976) pp. 485

Abbot, Djilda and Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 88 Reasoned approach to mean-tone fretting." FoMRHI Quarterly 9. (Oct 1977)

Gill, Donald. "Wire-strung Plucked Instruments Contemporary with the Lute." Lute Society Booklet No.3. The Lute Society (UK) (1977)

Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 89 Tuning and fretting patterns." FoMRHI Quarterly 9. (Oct 1977)

Wells, Graham. "London Salerooms." Early Music Vol. 5, No. 4. (Oct 1977) pp. 535+555

Wright, Lawrence. "The medieval gittern and citole, a case of mistaken identity." The Galpin Society Journal 30. (1977) pp. 8-42

Abbot, Djilda and Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 163 Overspun string calculations." FoMRHI Quarterly 13. (Oct 1978)

Abbot, Djilda and Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 164 On twisted metal strings and Mersenne's data." FoMRHI Quarterly 13. (Oct 1978)

Allworth, Christopher. "Comm 97 Cetra et cetera." FoMRHI Quarterly 10. (Jan 1978)

Boetticher, Wolfgang, ed. "Handschriftlich überlieferte Lauten- und Guitarrentabulaturen des 15 und 16 Jahrhunderts." RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales) B/VII. (1978)

Doyle, Paul. "Comm 152 National Museum, Dublin, with notes on an English guitar 1764 by Gibson." FoMRHI Quarterly 13. (Oct 1978)

Harwood, Ian. "Thomas Robinson's 'Generall Rules,'." The Lute Society Journal. (1978) pp. 18-22

Pringle, John. "John Rose." Early Music. (Oct 1978)

Sandman, Susan. "Thomas Robinson's Interpretive Left-hand Fingerings for the Lute and Cittern." Journal of The Lute Society of America 11. (1978) pp. 26-35

Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 124 Canpi cittern." FoMRHI Quarterly 11. (Apr 1978)

Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 125 Cetra fret blocks." FoMRHI Quarterly 11. (Apr 1978)

Karp, Cary. "Comm 183 On Mersenne's twisted data and metal strings." FoMRHI Quarterly 14. (Jan 1979)

Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 199 Mersenne untwisted." FoMRHI Quarterly 15. (Apr 1979)

Stauder, Wilhelm. "Zur Entwicklung der Cister." Renaissance-Studien: Helmuth Osthoff zum 80. Geburtstag. Tutzing, Schneider (1979) pp. 233-55

Ward, John. "Sprightly and Cheerful Musick: notes on the cittern, gittern and guitar in 16th- and 17th-century England." The Lute Society Journal 21. (1979 - 1981)

Gill, Donald. "Comm 274 Mandora and Calachon." FoMRHI Quarterly 19. (Apr 1980)

Gill, Donald. "Comm 295 Further to Comm 274." FoMRHI Quarterly 20. (July 1980)

État des recherches sur les instruments traditionnels en Corse. E Voce di u Cumune / Accademia di i Vagabondi (1981)

Fabris, Dinko. "Composizioni per 'cetra' in uno sconosciuto manoscritto per liuto del primo seicento." Rivista Italiana di Musicologia 14. (1981) pp. 185-206

Grijp, Louis Peter. "Fret Patterns of the Cittern." The Galpin Society Journal 34. (1981) pp. 62-97 [Also in French in Musique Ancienne 21 (1986), pp. 40-69.]

Harwood, Ian. "A Case of Double Standards? Instrumental Pitch in England c.1600."  Early Music. (Oct 1981) [cf. also EM "Observations." Donald Gill (April 1982), Herbert Myers (Oct. 1982), Ian Harwood (Jan. 1983).]

Dombois, Eugen. "Lute Temperament in Hans Gerle." The Lute Society Journal. (1982) [See also associated articles in JLSA]

Fabris, Dinko. "Prime aggiunte Italiane al volume RISM B/VII: intavolature mss per liuto e chitarra,." Fontes artis musicae 29. (1982) pp. 103-21

Gill, Donald. "Plucked Strings and Pitch." Early Music Vol. 10, No. 2. (Apr 1982) pp. 217-218

Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 407 Orpharion news." FoMRHI Quarterly 27. (Apr 1982)

Wells, Robin. "The Orpharion: Symbol of a Humanist Ideal." Early Music Vol. 10, No. 4. (Oct 1982) pp. 427-440

Cohen, Albert. "A Cache of 18th-Century Strings." The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 36. (Mar 1983) pp. 37-48

Forrester, Peter. "Citterns and Their Fingerboards." The Lute Society Journal 23. (1983) pp. 15-20 ["Some conclusions since modified." -P.F.]

Forrester, Peter. "Comm 466 Cittern fingerboards and stringing." FoMRHI Quarterly 32. (July 1983)

Gug, Remy. "Comm 452 Harpsichord string." FoMRHI Quarterly 31. (Apr 1983)

Karp, Cary. "Comm 439 Heinrich Schütz's Strings." FoMRHI Quarterly 30. (Jan 1983)

Karp, Cary. "Comm 465 Mean-tone." FoMRHI Quarterly 32. (July 1983)

Mason, Kevin Bruce. The Chitarrone and Its Repertoire in Early Seventeenth-Century Italy. Dissertation. Washington University. Saint Louis, Missouri (May 1983)

Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 440 Ferrous wire of high tensile strength ca 1600." FoMRHI Quarterly 30. (Jan 1983)

Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 459 Note on mean-tone temperament." FoMRHI Quarterly 31. (Apr 1983)

Karp, Cary. "Comm 548 Steel music wire." FoMRHI Quarterly 36. (July 1984)

Lindley, Mark. Lutes, Viols and Temperaments. Cambridge University Press (1984) ISBN 0 521 288835. ["Important data and discussion. Conclusions negated by extant wire string instruments" -P.F.]

O'Dania, Christopher. The 'Academia Musical' of Pablo Minguet y Yrol: A Translation and Commentary. Thesis. North Texas State University (Dec 1984)

Way, David J. "Comm 576 Non-ferrous harpsichord wire." FoMRHI Quarterly 37. (Oct 1984)

Coates, Kevin. Geometry, Proportion and the Art of Lutherie. Oxford University Press (1985) [Information regarding the numerical ratios used when planning instruments. Two citterns examined: The Paris "Strad" and an early bell cittern by Tielke.]

Ree Bernard, N. van. "Citara." Het Duintje. (1985)

Way, David J. "Comm 626 Uniformity in old wire." FoMRHI Quarterly 40. (July 1985)

Forrester, Peter. "Comm 740 Citterns." FoMRHI Quarterly 44. (July 1986)

Forrester, Peter. "Comm 757 Reply to 742." FoMRHI Quarterly 45. (Oct 1986)

Gug, Remy. "Comm 766 Zangelmass." FoMRHI Quarterly 45. (Oct 1986)

May, William E. A Critical Edition of Paolo Virchi's Il Primo Libro di Tabolatura di Citthara (1574). Thesis. Department of Music, Brigham Young University (Aug 1986) [This complete study includes a complete transcription into staff notation as well as the tablature, comparisons with original vocal models and translations of song texts.]

Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 713 Mandolin wire, etc." FoMRHI Quarterly 43. (Apr 1986)

Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 742 Response to 740." FoMRHI Quarterly 44. (July 1986)

Charnassé, Hélène. "La reception de la musique 'savante' dans le monde des amateurs: les recueils de cistre au XVIe siècle,." International Musicological Society: Congress Report [1930-] XIV. Bologna (1987) pp. 59-67

Coggin, Philip. "This easy and agreable instrument (guittar)." Early Music. (May 1987)

Forrester, Peter. "A Scottish Consort." The Lute Society Journal. (1987)

Gill, Donald. "Comm 797 Gittern and bell-gittern." FoMRHI Quarterly 47. (Apr 1987)

Gill, Donald. "Comm 823 The English guitar etcetera." FoMRHI Quarterly 48. (July 1987)

Gug, Remy. "Comm 836 European music wire making places." FoMRHI Quarterly 49. (Oct 1987)

Gug, Remy. "Comm 837 Wire drawing and working conditions." FoMRHI Quarterly 49. (Oct 1987)

Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 774 Tabley ms." FoMRHI Quarterly 46. (Jan 1987)

Shann, Richard. "Comm 790 Zangelmass." FoMRHI Quarterly 47. (Apr 1987)

Shann, Richard. "Comm 821 Phosphorous iron music wire." FoMRHI Quarterly 48. (July 1987)

Walsh, Stuart. "Comm 798 Was the English guitar a guitar or a cittern?" FoMRHI Quarterly 47. (Apr 1987)

Forrester, Peter. "Comm 858 Cittern in Italy." FoMRHI Quarterly 50. (Jan 1988)

Gug, Remy. "Comm 853 English pianoforte wire - a controversy during the years 1823-1825." FoMRHI Quarterly 50. (Jan 1988)

Gug, Remy. "Comm 866 Jobst Meuler or the secret of a Nuremburg wire drawer." FoMRHI Quarterly 51. (Apr 1988)

Wraight, Denzil. "Comm 852 Strong iron wire and long scales in Italian harpsichords." FoMRHI Quarterly 50. (Jan 1988)

Forrester, Peter. "Comm 931 Morley Consort and the English cittern." FoMRHI Quarterly 56. (July 1989)

Gug, Remy. "Comm 901 Tests on Pleyel's music wire, Paris 1811." FoMRHI Quarterly 54. (Jan 1989)

Gug, Remy. "Comm 917 The Birmingham wire gauge." FoMRHI Quarterly 55. (Apr 1989)

Gug, Remy. "Comm 932 Wire-micrometers and diameter values 1780-1850." FoMRHI Quarterly 56. (July 1989)

Michel, Andreas. "Zistern in Sachsen und ihre Gebrauch im bergmannischen Musizieren." Glueck Auf 38/39. (1989) pp. 17-22, 55, 56

Michel, Andreas. Cither, Cithrinchen, Zister. German Democratic Republic (1989)

Michel, Andreas. Studien zur Geschichte der Zister in Deutschland. Dissertation. Musikwissenschaftliche Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR (1989)

Fabris, Dinko. "Il primo libro di Tabolatura di Citthara di Paolo Virchi (1574)." Liuteria e musica strumentale a Brescia tra Cinque e Seicento. Salò (1990) ii, pp. 65-89

Firth, Ian and Sykes, Claire. "Harp Strings of the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries: An Acoustical Comparison." The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 43. (Mar 1990) pp. 46-59

Ravasio, Ugo. "Il fenomino cetera in area bresciana,." Liuteria e musica strumentale a Brescia tra Cinque e Seicento. Salò (1990) i, pp. 123-56 See also: "Il fenomino cetera in ambito bresciano," at http://www.liuteriascarampella.it/cetere.htm [link broken as of 8/2006]. See also: Liuteria Bresciana at http://www.liuteriabresciana.it/index.html.

Siemens Hernandez, Lothar. "Fuentes bibliograficas para el estudio de la citara y su repertorio en Espana (siglos XVIII-XIX)." Miscelanea en honor al Prof. Dr. Jose Lopez-Calo, S.J., en su 65 cumpleanos. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (1990)

Forrester, Peter. "Italian Citterns in the Museum of the Paris Conservatoire." The Lute Society Journal 31. (1991)

Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 1034 The stringing of English and German guitars." FoMRHI Quarterly 63. (Apr 1991)

Coelho, Victor. "Musical Myth and Galilean Science in Giovanni Serodine's Allegoria della Scienza." Music and Science in the Age of Galileo. Kluwer Academic Publishers (1992) pp. 91-114

Nordstrom, Lyle. Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography, No. 66: The Bandora: Its Music and Sources. Harmonie Park Press (1992) ISBN 0-89990-060-7

Gug, Remy. "Comm 1164 The 'Zängelmass' of the wire drawer; a documentary confirmation of the 16th century." FoMRHI Quarterly 71. (Apr 1993)

Rey, Juan & Navarro, Antonio. Los instrumentos de pua en Espańa. Madrid (1993) ISBN 84-206-8564-X

Angioni, Julius. Sonos: Strumenti della musica populare sarda . ISRE  (1994) ISBN 8885098304, 9788885098305

Gill, Donald. "The Seventeenth Century Gittern and the Englisch Zitterlein." The Lute Society Journal 35. (1995) pp. 76-86

Forrester, Peter. "Comm 1445 The cittern in consort." FoMRHI Quarterly 83. (Apr 1996)

Forrester, Peter. "Comm 1481 Reply to 1468." FoMRHI Quarterly 85. (Oct 1996)

Gill, Donald. "Comm 1482 Reply to 1445 and 1468." FoMRHI Quarterly 85. (Oct 1996)

Jeffery, Brian. "The Lute Music of Antony Holborne." Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 93rd Sess. (1966-1967) pp. 25-31

Kenyon de Pascual, Beryl. "Two Sixteenth-Century Spanish Inventories." The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 49. (Mar 1996) pp. 198-203

Michel, Andreas. "Die Theorbenzistern von Ernst Andreas Kram." Der 'Schöne' Klang : Studien zum Historischen Musikinstrumentenbau in Deutschland und Japan unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des alten Nürnberg. Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg (1996) pp. 83-98

Segerman, Ephraim. "Bulletin Supplement: The English cittern in the 2nd quarter of the 17th century." FoMRHI Quarterly 85. (Oct 1996)

Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 1422 The instruments of the consort." FoMRHI Quarterly 82. (Jan 1996)

Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 1468 Reply to 1445." FoMRHI Quarterly 84. (July 1996)

Forrester, Peter. "Comm 1496 Segerman, Godwin, Fludd and the English cittern." FoMRHI Quarterly 86. (Jan 1997)

Gill, Donald. "Comm 1516 Response to 1498." FoMRHI Quarterly 87. (Apr 1997)

Montagu, Jeremy. "Comm 1514 Citt/gitt." FoMRHI Quarterly 87. (Apr 1997)

Montagu, Jeremy. "Comm 1530 Citt/gitt again." FoMRHI Quarterly 88. (July 1997)

Robinson, John. "English Lute Music abroad - part I; A recently discovered cittern source in St.John's College, Cambridge." Lute News, Lute Society Quarterly No. 43 (supplement).  (Sep 1997)

Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 1497 Reply to 1481." FoMRHI Quarterly 86. (Jan 1997)

Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 1498 Response to 1482." FoMRHI Quarterly 86. (Jan 1997)

Segerman, Ephraim. "Praetorius's Cammerthon Pitch Standard." The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 50. (Mar 1997) pp. 81-108

Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 1529 Short history of names of gittern and cittern." FoMRHI Quarterly 88. (July 1997)

Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 1531 More on the English guitar and speculations on its origin." FoMRHI Quarterly 88. (July 1997)

Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 1543 Origins of the 'guitarra portuguesa'." FoMRHI Quarterly 89. (Oct 1997)

Shepherd, Martin. "The Well Tempered Lute." Lute News, Lute Society Quarterly 41. (Mar 1997)

Bordas, Cristina; Robledo, Luis, and Knighton, Tess. "José Zaragozá's Box: Science and Music in Charles II's Spain." Early Music Vol. 26, No. 3. (Aug 1998) pp.391-413

Forrester, Peter. "Citterns in the Paris Conservatoire." Lute News, Lute Society Quarterly  No. 7. (Jan 1988)

Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 1576 Violins, citterns and viols in the Edinburgh 'AS' manuscript." FoMRHI Quarterly 91. (Apr 1998)

Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 1593 Praetorius' plucked instruments and their strings." FoMRHI Quarterly 92. (July 1998)

Spiessens, Godelieve. "De Antwerpse citerbouwer Hans cisterbouwer Hans Meulevoets (ca 1541-1612)." Musica Antiqua; Actuele Informatie over Oude Muziek 15/2. (May 1998) pp. 52-54

Michel, Andreas. Zistern. (Leipzig Museum Catalogue) (1999) ISBN 3-929330-86-5

Segerman, Ephraim. "A Short History of the Cittern." The Galpin Society Journal 52. (1999) pp. 77-107

Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 1621 Curving a fingerboard to improve the action." FoMRHI Quarterly 94. (Jan 1999)

Fleming, Michael. "Some Points Arising from a Survey of Wills and Inventories." The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 53. (Apr 2000) pp. 301-311

Forrester, Peter. "A Short History of the Cittern, Correspondence." The Galpin Society Journal. (2000)

Pamplin, Terence M.. "The Influence of the Bandora on the Origin of the Baroque Baryton." The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 53. (Apr 2000) pp. 221-232

Ness, Arthur and Harwood, Ian. "Shelfmarks of some cittern and lute manuscripts at Harvard and at Mills College." The Lute Society Journal XLI. (2001)

Budasz, Rogério. The five-course guitar (viola) in Portugal and Brazil in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Dissertation. University of Southern California (Aug 2001)

Baddley, Ken. "The English guitar." Lute News, Lute Society Quarterly No. 60. (Dec 2001)

Forrester, Peter. "Conference report: the Kloster Michaelstein symposium on the guitar and the cittern, 16-18 November 2001." Lute News, Lute Society Quarterly No. 60.  (Dec 2001) 

Goodwin, Chris, with notes by Peter Forrester. ". . . and what makes a good cittern?" Lute News, Lute Society Quarterly 57. (Apr 2001) pp. 14-15

Groot, Simon. "De liederen in de Nederlandtsche Gedenck-clanck van Adriaen Valerius." Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis (KVNM) Deel 51, No. 2. (2001) pp. 131-148

Harwood, Ian. "Six Several Instruments." Lute News, Lute Society Quarterly 62. (June 2002)

Stradner, Gerhard. "Musical Instruments in an Inventory by Andreas Mantova Benavides, Padua 1696." The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 55. (Apr 2002) pp. 62-103

Topham, John C.. "A Dendrochronological Survey of Musical Instruments from the Hill Collection at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford." The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 55. (Apr 2002) pp. 244-268

Martin, Darryl. "The Palmer Orpharion: A Re-evaluation." (2003) http://www.darryl-martin.co.uk/palmer.htm

Batov, Alexander. "Roses in late 16th – early 17th century vihuelas: some thoughts and ideas." (2004) http://www.vihuelademano.com/rosesinvihuelas.htm. [Article makes repeated reference and comparison to cittern rosettes.]

Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte 66: Gittare und Zister — Bauweise, Spieltechnik und Geschichte bis 1800. (2005) ISBN 3-89512-125-8. [Available directly from Kloster Michaelstein, http://www.kloster-michaelstein.de.]

Dugot, Joël and Florence Gétreau. "Citterns in French Public Collections Instruments and musical iconography." Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte 66: Gittare und Zister — Bauweise, Spieltechnik und Geschichte bis 1800. (2005) [Also available on-line from the Institut de recherche sur le patrimoine musical en France as a text-only (no images) version. Note: Some of the tabular data is incorrectly formatted in the on-line version]

Eisenhardt, Lex. "Nouve suonate de Chitarriglia Spagnuola, battute e piccicato." Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte 66: Gittare und Zister — Bauweise, Spieltechnik und Geschichte bis 1800. (2005)

"Forrester, Peter. "Wood and Wire — A Lecture by Peter Forrester." Lute News, Lute Society Quarterly. (2005) [Includes supplemental handouts: Fretting Patterns, Builders' Notes, and A Provisional List of Extant 16th and early 17th Century Citterns]

Forrester, Peter. "Wood, Wire and Geometry." Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte 66: Gittare und Zister — Bauweise, Spieltechnik und Geschichte bis 1800. (2005) [An abridged version of the paper appears as "Wood and Wire" in Lute News]

Gándara, Xosé Cristano. "Portuguese Plucked Instruments in the Eighteenth Century." Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte 66: Gittare und Zister — Bauweise, Spieltechnik und Geschichte bis 1800. (2005)

Grijp, Louis Peter. "The cittern of Sweelinck and Vermeer Contextual information for the excavated Zuyderzee citterns." Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte 66: Gittare und Zister — Bauweise, Spieltechnik und Geschichte bis 1800. (2005)

Harwood, Ian. "Wire Strings at Helmingham Hall: an Instrument and a Music Book." Lute Society Booklet No.10.  The Lute Society (UK) (2005) ISBN 0 905655 47 8.

Hill, Frank. "Zwei frühe Tabulaturedrucke von 1570 für Gitarre und Zister mit Anweisungen zu Spiel, Besaitung und Stimmung aus dem Druckhaus Phalése/Bellére." Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte 66: Gittare und Zister — Bauweise, Spieltechnik und Geschichte bis 1800. (2005)

MacKillop, Rob. "The Guitar, Cittern and Guittar in Scotland — an historical introduction up to 1800." Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte 66: Gittare und Zister — Bauweise, Spieltechnik und Geschichte bis 1800. (2005) [An alternate and greatly abridged version of this article was originally published on Rob's web site and is available here as "Plucked, fretted instruments in Medieval and Renaissance Scotland."]

Michel, Andreas. "Quellen zur Geschichte der Zister in Sachsen vom 16 bis 19 Jahrhundert." Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte 66: Gittare und Zister — Bauweise, Spieltechnik und Geschichte bis 1800. (2005) [A slightly expanded version of the inventory only (lacking the prefatory material found in the article) can be found on-line at http://www.studia-instrumentorum.de/MUSEUM/zist_sachsen_quellen.htm.]

Milbradt, Steffen. "Ein Guadagnini zugeschriebenes Instrument und seine Rekonstruktion Neue Erkenntnisse zum Gitarrenbau in der 2 Hälfte des 18 Jahrhunderts." Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte 66: Gittare und Zister — Bauweise, Spieltechnik und Geschichte bis 1800. (2005)

Núñez, Sebastián and Verónica Estevez. "Description of the remains of two Dutch citterns." Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte 66: Gittare und Zister — Bauweise, Spieltechnik und Geschichte bis 1800. (2005)

Rault, Christian. "The emergence of new approaches to plucked instruments, thirteenth to fifteenth centuries." Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte 66: Gittare und Zister — Bauweise, Spieltechnik und Geschichte bis 1800. (2005)

Rossi, G. Doc. "Citterns and Guitars in Colonial America." Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte 66: Gittare und Zister — Bauweise, Spieltechnik und Geschichte bis 1800. (2005) [An earlier (and abridged?) version of this article is available on-line at https://www.academia.edu/29911063/Citterns_and_Guitars_in_Colonial_America.]

Timofeyev, Oleg. "The Russian Seven-String Guitar ca 1800: Organology and Search for Origins." Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte 66: Gittare und Zister — Bauweise, Spieltechnik und Geschichte bis 1800. (2005)

Voigt, Wolfgang and Christoph Reuter. "Vergleichende Untersuchungen der Klangerzeugung und Klangfarbe historischer Gittaren und Zister." Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte 66: Gittare und Zister — Bauweise, Spieltechnik und Geschichte bis 1800. (2005)

Ziegenhals, Gunter. "Zur Dämpfung bei Zupfinstrumenten." Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte 66: Gittare und Zister — Bauweise, Spieltechnik und Geschichte bis 1800. (2005)

Mammarella, Alberto and Navach, Lisa. "Musical Instruments in a 1592 Inventory of the Marquis Ferdinando d'Alarçon." The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 59. (May 2006) pp. 187-205

Martin, Darryl. "The Early Wire-Strung Guitar." The Galpin Society Journal. (May 2006) pp. 123-137

Harwood, Ian. "A 16th century cittern at last?" Lute News, Lute Society Quarterly No. 82. (July 2007)

Huber, Alfons. "Fingerboards of Sixteenth-Century Citterns as a Primary Source for Temperaments of (Other) Fretted Instruments." De Clavicordio VIII: Proceedings of the VIII International Clavichord Symposium – Magnano, 5 - 8 September 2007. (2007) pp. 97-108 ISBN: 978-88-900269-5-9

Poulopoulos, Panagiotis. Historical Wire-Strung Plucked Instruments: Literature Review and Experimental Research on Stringing, Tuning, and Bridge Design. Dissertation thesis. University of Edinburgh (Aug 2007)

Segerman, Ephraim. The Development of Western European Stringed Instruments. (Mar 2007) 

Bavington, Peter. "Comm 1825 'Twined' strings for clavichords." FoMRHI Quarterly 110. (Nov 2008)

Graf, Lanie. "John Frederick Hintz, Eighteenth-Century Moravian Instrument maker and the Use of the Cittern in Moravian Worship." Journal of Moravian History No. 5. (Fall 2008) pp. 7-39 [May be ordered on-line at http://moravianchurcharchives.org/jmh_subscribe.php]

Hartig, Andrew. "Re-envisioning the Broken Consort: Doing More with Less." The Lute Society of America Quarterly. (Feb 2008) pp. 7-12 [Includes information on arranging cittern parts for consort.]

Rossi, Doc. "Thoughts on Geminiani, Straube, and performance practice on the baroque cittern." Lute News, Lute Society Quarterly 88. (Dec 2008) pp. 10-15 [Includes music.]

Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 1821 Notes on the polyphont." FoMRHI Quarterly 110. (Nov 2008)

Wieninger, Fritz. "Aus der Verwandtschaft der Lauten: Das Orpharion." Lauten-info (Newletter of the German Lute Society Deutsche Lautengesellschaft). (Mar 2008) pp. 13-14

Egerton, Chris. "The world's oldest guitar? The British Museum citole and its restoration." Lute News, Lute Society Quarterly 92. (Dec 2009) pp. 7-14

Hartig, Andrew. "The Wire Connection: Some Myths and Misconceptions about Wire-Strung Instruments." The Lute Society of America Quarterly Volume XLIV, No. 2. (Spring 2009) pp. 32, 41, and 56.

Hartig, Andrew. "The Wire Connection: A Brief Survey of Plucked Wire-Strung Instruments, 15th-18th Centuries - Part One." The Lute Society of America Quarterly Volume XLIV, No. 3. (Fall 2009) pp. 42-43.

Hartig, Andrew. "The Wire Connection: A Brief Survey of Plucked Wire-Strung Instruments, 15th-18th Centuries - Part Two." The Lute Society of America Quarterly Volume XLIV, No. 4. (Winter 2009)

Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 1894 On late 18th century archcitterns." FoMRHI Quarterly 114. (Nov 2009)

Sparr, Kenneth. "Remarks on an Unnoticed Seventeenth-Century French Lute in Sweden, the Swedish Lute (Svenskluta or Swedish Theorbo) and Conversions of Swedish Lutes." The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 62. (Apr 2009) pp. 209-234, 202-207

Takeuchi, Taro. "Comm 1884 Additions to Comm 1876, some more English Guitars." FoMRHI Quarterly 114. (Nov 2009)

Tyler, James. "Comm 1876 English guitar makers in 18th century Britain: a directory." FoMRHI Quarterly 113. (Aug 2009)

Barbieri, Patrizio. "Gold- and Silver-Stringed Musical Instruments: Modern Physics vs Aristotelianism in the Scientific Revolution." Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society Volume XXXVI. (2010) pp. 118-154

Bergstrom, Ture. "Comm 1895 English Guitars in the Danish Music Museum, Copenhagen Additions to Comms 1876 and 1884." FoMRHI Quarterly 115. (Mar 2010)

Hartig, Andrew, ed. The Lute Society of America Quarterly Volume XLV, No. 1. (Spring 2010) [An "all-wire" issue.]
Includes the following:

• • Carlin, Nancy. "Exploring Bandora Solos from a Lute Player's Perspective." The Lute Society of America Quarterly Volume XLV, No. 1. (Spring 2010)

  • Hartig, Andrew. "An Interview with Peter Forrester." The Lute Society of America Quarterly Volume XLV, No. 1. (Spring 2010)

  • Hartig, Andrew. "Do What Thou Wilt:' An Interview with Pantagruel's Mark Wheeler." The Lute Society of America Quarterly Volume XLV, No. 1. (Spring 2010)

  • Nordberg, Frank. "The Storm Manuscript: A Rare Glimpse into a Forgotten Chapter of Cittern History." The Lute Society of America Quarterly Volume XLV, No. 1. (Spring 2010)

  • Rossi, Doc. "Lute Connections with the English Guittar." The Lute Society of America Quarterly Volume XLV, No. 1. (Spring 2010)

  • Rutherford, Andrew. "Lautenzisters, Moravians, and the Moravian Choralbuch." The Lute Society of America Quarterly Volume XLV, No. 1. (Spring 2010)

  • Wheeler, Mark. "Fitting the Shoemaker': Arranging a 17th Century Tune for Cittern." The Lute Society of America Quarterly Volume XLV, No. 1. (Spring 2010)

Hartig, Andrew. "The Wire Connection: A Brief Survey of Plucked Wire-Strung Instruments, 15th-18th Centuries - Part Three." The Lute Society of America Quarterly Volume XLV, No. 2. (Summer 2010)

Hartig, Andrew. "The Wire Connection: Creating Duets for Renaissance Guitar and Diatonic Cittern." The Lute Society of America Quarterly Volume XLV, No. 3. (Fall 2010)

Hartig, Andrew. "The Wire Connection: A Brief Survey of Plucked Wire-Strung Instruments, 15th-18th Centuries - Part Four." The Lute Society of America Quarterly Volume XLV, No. 4. (Winter 2010)

Hartig, Andrew. "The Wire Connection: Who's Afraid of the Diatonic Cittern?." The Lute Society of America Quarterly Volume XLVI, No. 3. (Fall 2011)

Michel, Andreas; Schmidt, Lena; and Dentler, Jonathan C. "Zistern: Sonderausstellung Suhl 2011 Katalog." Musikinstrumentensammlung Herbert Grünwald. Waffen Museum Suhl (2011)

Poulopoulos, Panagiotis. "A Comparison of Two Surviving Guittars by Zumpe and New Details Concerning the Involvement of Square Piano Makers in the Guittar Trade." The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 64. (Mar 2011) pp. 49-59, 180-183

Poulopoulos, Panagiotis. The Guittar in the British Isles, 1750-1810. Thesis. University of Edinburgh (2011). [Available at https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/5776.] 

Schlegel, Andreas and Lüdtke, Joachim, eds. Die Laute in Europa 2: Lauten, Gitarren, Mandolinen, und Cistern / The Lute in Europe 2: Lutes, Guitars, Mandolins, and Citterns. (2011)  ISBN 978-3-9523232-1-2 [See https://accordsnouveaux.ch/en/the-lute-in-europe-2/current-edition]
In addition to information about wire-strung instruments throughout, this publication also includes the following specific articles of interest:

• • Caldeira Cabral, Pedro. "Die Geschichte der Guitarra Portuguesa" / "The history of the Guitarra Portuguesa." Die Laute in Europa 2: Lauten, Gitarren, Mandolinen, und Cistern / The Lute in Europe 2: Lutes, Guitars, Mandolins, and Citterns. (2011) pp. 166-175

  • Forrester, Peter. "Die Familie der Cistern bis 1700" / "The cittern family to 1700." Die Laute in Europa 2: Lauten, Gitarren, Mandolinen, und Cistern / The Lute in Europe 2: Lutes, Guitars, Mandolins, and Citterns. (2011) pp. 144-157

  • Mühlemann, Lorenz and Schlegel, Andreas. "Die Zister vom 18. Jahrhundert bis heute" / "The cittern from the 18th Century to our days." Die Laute in Europa 2: Lauten, Gitarren, Mandolinen, und Cistern / The Lute in Europe 2: Lutes, Guitars, Mandolins, and Citterns. (2011) pp. 158-166

  • Schlegel, Andreas and Lüdtke, Joachim, eds.. "1760 - Cister, Mandora und Gitarre" / "1760 - Cittern, Mandora and Guitar." Die Laute in Europa 2: Lauten, Gitarren, Mandolinen, und Cistern / The Lute in Europe 2: Lutes, Guitars, Mandolins, and Citterns. (2011) pp. 312-331

  • Sparr, Kenneth. "Die Svenskluta (Schwedische Laute oder Schwedische Theorbe" / "The Svenskluta (Swedish lute or Swedish theorbo." Die Laute in Europa 2: Lauten, Gitarren, Mandolinen, und Cistern / The Lute in Europe 2: Lutes, Guitars, Mandolins, and Citterns. (2011) pp. 176-181

Segerman, Ephraim. "Comm 1940 Another look of the cetra in the Gubbio intarsia." FoMRHI Quarterly 118. (Apr 2011)

Hartig, Andrew. "The Wire Connection: Buying a Wire-Strung Instrument." The Lute Society of America Quarterly Volume XLVII, No. 1. (Spring 2012)

Holman, Peter. "Ann Ford’s instructions for guitar, transcribed by Peter Holman." Lute News, Lute Society Quarterly No. 104. (Dec 2012)

Takeuchi, Taro. "The lute-backed 'English guittar.'" Lute News, Lute Society Quarterly No. 104. (Dec 2012)

"Correspondence: Cittern, bandora and the English consort." Lute News, Lute Society Quarterly No. 108. (Dec 2013)

Burgers, Jan. "Cittern." The Lute in the Dutch Golden Age: Musical Culture in the Netherlands 1580-1670. Amsterdam University Press Amsterdam (2013) pp. 18-19

Burgers, Jan. "Lute cittern." The Lute in the Dutch Golden Age: Musical Culture in the Netherlands 1580-1670. Amsterdam University Press Amsterdam (2013) pp. 19-20

Coakley, Chris. "Comm 1987 Orpharion and cittern fret analysis and other ancient tunings including baroque lutes." FoMRHI Quarterly 123. (Feb 2013)

Durkin, Rachel. "The Viola d'Amore – its Heritage Reconsidered." The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 66. (Mar 2013) pp. 139-147

Hartig, Andrew. "The Wire Connection: Hidden Techniques: Octave Ambiguity and Open String Shifts." The Lute Society of America Quarterly Volume XLVIII, No. 3. (Fall 2013)

Ness, Arthur. "Briefly Noted -  Wandering Tablatures I Ward: Cittern Manuscripts." Journal of the The Lute Society of America Vol. 46. (2013)

Schamp, Greet. "Make Long Forgotten Musical Heritage Resound Anew': The Ghent Lute Manuscripts." The Lute in the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century: Proceedings of the 2013 Utrecht Lute Symposium. Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2013)

Spring, Matthew. "Benjamin Milgrove, the musical 'Toy man', and the 'guittar' in Bath 1757-1790." Early Music Vol. 41, No. 2. (May 2013) pp. 317-329 https://www.jstor.org/stable/43307438

Barlow, Chris. "Comm 2004 Glagget’s patent tuning-key, or how the industrial revolution might not have happened." FoMRHI Quarterly 126. (Mar 2014)

Poulopoulos, Panagiotis. "Wha sweetly tune the Scottish lyre': A Guittar by Rauche & Hoffmann and its Connection to Robert Burns." The Galpin Society Journal Vol. 67. (Mar 2014) pp. 143-170, 40-44

van Amersfoort, Jelma. "Miss Sara Burgehart's English Guittar: The 'guitarre Angloise' in Enlightenment Holland." Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis Deel 64, No. 1/2 (2014) pp. 76-102

van Amersfoort, Jelma. "The English guittar in Holland." Cambridge Consortium for Guitar Research Colloquium. (2014)

Koster, John. "Strings and Theories of Stringing in the Times of the Citole and Early Cittern." The British Museum Citole: New Perspectives. The British Museum (2015) pp. 84-92

Poletti, Paul. "The Interpretation of Early Wire Gauge Systems." (2015) https://www.academia.edu/15062869/The_Interpretation_of_Early_Wire_Gauge_Systems [This article was originally published in Matière et Musique, The Cluny Encounter, Proceedings of the European Encounter on Instrument Making and Restoration (Cluny 1999), ed. Claire Chevallier and Jos van Immerseel (Alamire 2000). This updated version includes a number of corrections to the text, footnotes and illustrations, as well as Addenda including recent information on a variety of aspects of the main topic.]

Turek, Jan. Bakalářská diplomová práce. Thesis. Brno (2015)

Young, Crawford. "Cytolle, Guiterne, Morache: A Revision of Terminology." The British Museum Citole: New Perspectives. The British Museum (2015) pp. 93-103

Blench, Roger. Angel musicians on the choir stalls in Lincoln cathedral. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. University of Cambridge (Feb 2016)

Gerhardt, Robert. "Rediscovered portraits clarifying the family of Michiel van Musscher (1645-1705), and the preliminary development of his masterpiece, The Family of the Painter." Oud Holland Vol. 129, No 1. (2016) pp. 31-36

Marino Garza, Esteban. Two Sixteenth-Century Citterns Made in Urbino, Italy: A Comparative Study. Thesis. University of South Dakota (Dec 2016)

Poulopoulos, Panagiotis and Durkin, Rachel. "'A very mistaken identification': the 'sultana' or 'cither viol' and its links to the bowed psaltery, viola d'amore and guittar." Early Music Vol. 44, No. 2. Oxford University Press (May 2016) pp. 307-331

Pouloupolos, Panagiotis. "The Harp, Lyre, Lute, Cittern, and Guitar around 1800." Cambridge Consortium for Guitar Research Colloquium. (2016)

van Amersfoort, Jelma. "Guitar and cittern making in the Netherlands in the 18th century." Cambridge Consortium for Guitar Research Colloquium. (2016)

Schamp, Greet. "The Ghent Manuscripts." Lute News, Lute Society Quarterly No. 120. (Dec 2016) pp. 8-15

Verberkmoes, Geerten. "Made in Amsterdam: a 1771 cittern by Benoit Joseph Boussu." Early Music Vol. 44, No. 4. Oxford University Press (Nov 2016) pp. 627-641

Forrester, Peter. "Comm 2073 Cittern belly outlines, frustrations and suggestions for the modern maker." FoMRHI Quarterly 138. (Aug 2017)

Forrester, Peter. "Comm 2076 How I build a cittern, part 1: the mould." FoMRHI Quarterly 139. (Dec 2017)

Hebbert, Benjamin. "The Forensic Challenges of a Renaissance Cittern." Violins and Violinists: The occasional magazine of Benjamin Hebbert Violins. (Dec 2017) https://violinsandviolinists.com/the-forensic-challenges-of-an-elizabethan-cittern/ 

van Amersfoort, Jelma. "'Extra fine Guitars after the newest Fashion': guitar- and cittern-making in the northern Netherlands, 1750–1800" Early Music Vol. 46, Issue 1.  (Feb 2018) 

Forrester, Peter. "Comm 2082 How I build a cittern, part 2: the back and sides, and part 3: the belly." FoMRHI Quarterly 140. (Mar 2018)

Forrester, Peter. "Comm 2086 How I build a cittern, part 4: the fingerboard." FoMRHI Quarterly 141. (May 2018)

Forrester, Peter. "Comm 2090 How I build a cittern, part 5: odds and ending." FoMRHI Quarterly 142. (July 2018)

Marino Garza, Esteban. "Two citterns from Urbino, a comparative study." Lute News, Lute Society Quarterly No. 128. (Dec 2018)

Takeuchi, Taro. "Rediscovering the Regency lute: a checklist of musical sources and extant instruments." Early Music Vol. 46, Issue 1. Oxford University Press (Mar 2018) pp. 17-34 https://academic.oup.com/em/article-abstract/46/1/17/4947209

Young, Robert Crawford. La Cetra Cornuta : the Horned Lyre of the Christian World. Dissertation. Leiden University (June 2018)

Forrester, Peter. "Comm 2119 The Other Citterns, part 1." FoMRHI Quarterly 147. (Dec 2019)

Pavan, Franco. "L’archivio dei suoni: le intavolature per liuto, chitarrone, cetra e chitarrino della collezione Albani." Studia Oliveriana Quarta serie, voll. V - VI. Ente Olivieri - Biblioteca e Musei Oliveriani (2019-2020) pp. 167-226

Forrester, Peter. "Comm 2124 The Other Citterns, part 2: Carved Citterns, and some variations." FoMRHI Quarterly 148. (Jan 2020)

Forrester, Peter. "Comm 2138 The Bandora Today, and how I make it, with some remarks about orpharions." FoMRHI Quarterly 151. (Oct 2020)

Greenhalgh, John. "Comm 2142 Rupture testing of Röslau steel wire, as used in clavichords." FoMRHI Quarterly 152. (Dec 2020)

Mariani, Jacob. "Comm 2145 Conceptualizing the cetra and its block fret systems." FoMRHI Quarterly 152. (Dec 2020)

Forrester, Peter. "Comm 2156 Errata in Comm 2138 The Bandora Today Q 151, October 2020." FoMRHI Quarterly 154. (July 2021)

Forrester, Peter. "The Eglantine table cittern's place in the history of the cittern during the 16th century." Lute News, Lute Society Quarterly No. 140.  (Oct 2021) 

Hartig, Andrew. "The Wire Connection: Hidden Ensembles? Lute and Cittern in the 'Willoughby Lute Book'." The Lute Society of America Quarterly Volume LVI, No. 1. (Spring 2021)

Honea, Ted. Agostino Agazzari: Concerning Playing on the Bass / With all Instruments / And their use in the Ensemble. (2021)

Takeuchi, Taro. "Sweeter than Sheep: An Invitation to Fingerstyle Wire Strings." The Lute Society of America Quarterly Volume LVI, No. 1. (Spring 2021)

Cristo, Nuno. "In defense of the cithara lusitanica: celebrating cittern practice in Portugal since the 16th century." . (2022)  https://www.academia.edu/69190233/In_defense_of_the_cithara_lusitanica_celebrating_cittern_practice_in_Portugal_since_the_16_th_century 

Egerton, Chris. "Comm 2180 The Palmer Orpharion – is there a Shakespearean connection?." FoMRHI Quarterly 157. (Apr 2022)

Gurgul, Wojciech. "Gitara angielska w polskiej kulturze muzycznej przełomu XVIII i XIX wieku." Muzyka 67 (1). Uniwersytet Humanistyczno-Przyrodniczy im. Jana Długosza w Częstochowie (Polska) (2022) pp. 65-95

Schag, Werner. "Wenn Prinzen Musizieren und 'was Freulein Sophia auf dem Instrumente meisten theils schlagen kan. '" Anmerkungen um die verschollene Handschrift Mscr.Dresd.J.307 "Tabulatur Buch Auff der Cythar". (2022)

van Amersfoort, Jelma. "Aspects of the cistre." Cambridge Consortium for Guitar Research Colloquium. (Sep 2022)

Durkin, Rachel. "'Magnificence of promises': novelty instruments in concert in Britain, c1750–1800." Early Music Vol. 51, No. 2. (2023)

Egerton, Chris. "Comm 2200 A Transitional Neapolitan Mandoline." FoMRHI Quarterly 162. (Aug 2023)

Forrester, Peter. "Historical Wire-Strung Instrument construction." Lute Society Booklet No.12.  The Lute Society (UK) (2024) 126 pp.

Sparr, Kenneth. "A rather short-lived competitor to the guitar in Sweden 1780-1820 – The Sittra or Swedish lute." Cambridge Consortium for Guitar Research Colloquium. (Apr 2024)

Takeuchi, Taro. "Comm 2219 Restoring an old English Guitar." FoMRHI Quarterly 167. (Oct 2024)

van Amersfoort, Jelma and Sparks, Paul. "Charles Clagget’s Forty Lessons and Twelve Songs (Edinburgh, c 1760)." Cambridge Consortium for Guitar Research Colloquium. (Apr 2024)

Forrester, Peter. Set of seven drawings of wire-strung instruments. The Lute Society (2024)