The Baroque guitar (c. 1600–1750) is a string instrument with five courses of gut strings and moveable gut frets. The first (highest pitched) course sometimes used only a single string.
History
The Baroque guitar replaced the Renaissance lute as the most common instrument found in the home. The earliest attestation of a five-stringed guitar comes from the mid-sixteenth-century Spanish book Declaracion de Instrumentos Musicales by Juan Bermudo, published in 1555. The first treatise published for the Baroque guitar was Guitarra Espanola de cinco ordenes (The Five-course Spanish Guitar), c. 1590, by Juan Carlos Amat. The baroque guitar in contemporary ensembles took on the role of a basso continuo instrument and players would be expected to improvise a chordal accompaniment with another basso continuo instrument playing the bass line. Intimately tied to the development of the Baroque guitar is the alfabeto system of notation.
Tuning
Three different ways of tuning the guitar are well documented in seventeenth-century sources as set out in the following table. This includes the names of composers who are associated with each method. Very few sources clearly indicate that one method of stringing rather than another should be used and it may have been up to the player to decide what was appropriate.
The digging started back when he was an undergraduate student in Chile, assisting musicologist AlejandroVera in his recovery of a rare manuscript by Santiago de Murcia, a renowned composer of Baroque guitar music.
The digging started back when he was an undergraduate student in Chile, assisting musicologist AlejandroVera in his recovery of a rare manuscript by Santiago de Murcia, a renowned composer of Baroque guitar music.
10 singers, 4 dancers and 14 instrumentalists, among them music director Robert Mealy on violin, and the company’s co-directors Paul O’Dette on theorbo (a lute with an extra-long neck) and Stephen Stubbs playing theorbo and Baroque guitar.
Similar twists are everywhere – the brief baroque segment ‘Andrei’, with leavening guitar and a pared back nature returns us to the beginning of things, rooting us in an earlier musical history.
... or a horn, and a chiming gong or pulsing drum providing the accompaniment; a group of plucked instruments – guitar, harps, double bass – sometimes seems to function like a baroque continuo group.
Steve McQueen, artist and film-maker ... Whether it is contemporary dance, playing the baroque guitar or learning to create a character on stage, specialising and embarking on a precarious freelance life doesn’t come from a desire to be part of an elite.
... Mulfinger on flute and recorder, Michael Langham on harpsichord and Matthew Xie on lute and Baroque guitar for a journey into one of the richest and most influential periods in the history of music.
... pop confections that shift between beautifully orchestrated ballads and experiments with jangly 12-string folk rock, harpsichord-bedecked baroque pop and, occasionally, fuzzed-out guitar.
Mentored at UC Berkeley by the musicologist and harpsichordist Alan Curtis, Bob gained a keen interest in early music and became an expert on the baroque guitar and the lute.
The three-part title track, like Pacific Coast Highway, is a piece of baroque flamenco with Daniel Lippel multitracking multiple electric and nylon-strung guitars.
Listen to a night full of smooth jazz, Brazilian choro and Baroque music played on a keyboard, double bass and guitar ...Rogers combines classical, jazz and world music elements on the guitar shown through his performances.
they gleefully layer on Mercury Rev-esque flute melodies, crunchy bursts of guitar and textured synthesizer hums ... The track represents MGMT at their most playful, with baroque harpsichord, chugging guitars and an unpredictable chord progression.
CHICO — The Sundays at 2 next free recital is this Sunday, March 10 at Chico State... Dvorin plays electric guitar ... Dvorin will play the electric guitar.Related Articles ... Paradise orchestra, ButteBaroque to play classical music ... .
