Assertion: lute | /r/HasProperty | employed
Facets:
value: clearly
type: MANNER
value: for accompanying singers
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: The lutes of other sizes were clearly employed for accompanying singers or instrumentalists (as a way of adapting to different pitch ranges or tonalities while remaining within a technically comfortable area of the fingerboard), but they also were played together in ensembles of two, three or four instruments.
text: At first, it had been employed to accompany the singing voice, but with the appearance of the great lutenists and composers (Vincenzo Capirola, John Dowland, Thomas Mace, Valentin Bakfark, Alessandro Piccinini or Nicolaes Vallet) and the publication of numerous lutebooks, it was also used as a solo instrument since musicians found that it could be played with fingertips as well as with a quill.