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The Baroque guitar is a guitar
Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
 from the baroque era
Baroque music

Baroque music describes a period or style of European classical music approximately extending from Dates of classical music eras. This era is said to begin in music after the Renaissance music and was followed by the Classical music era....
 (c1600-1750), an ancestor of the modern classical guitar
Classical guitar

The classical guitar, also known as the "Spanish guitar", and in more recent times as the "nylon string guitar" ? is a plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones....
. The term is also used for modern instruments made in the same style.

The instrument was smaller than a modern guitar, of lighter construction, and had gut strings.






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The Baroque guitar is a guitar
Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
 from the baroque era
Baroque music

Baroque music describes a period or style of European classical music approximately extending from Dates of classical music eras. This era is said to begin in music after the Renaissance music and was followed by the Classical music era....
 (c1600-1750), an ancestor of the modern classical guitar
Classical guitar

The classical guitar, also known as the "Spanish guitar", and in more recent times as the "nylon string guitar" ? is a plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones....
. The term is also used for modern instruments made in the same style.

The instrument was smaller than a modern guitar, of lighter construction, and had gut strings. The frets were also usually made of gut, and tied to the neck. A typical instrument had five course
Course (music)

A course is a pair or more of adjacent strings tuned to unison or an octave and usually played together as if a single string. It may also refer to a single string normally played on its own on an instrument with other multi-string courses, for example the bass string on a nine string baroque guitar....
s, of which either four or five were double-strung making a total of nine or ten strings.

The conversion of all courses to single strings and the addition of a bass E-string occurred during the era of the early romantic guitar.

Tuning


Repertoire

  • Gaspar Sanz
    Gaspar Sanz

    Gaspar Sanz was an Arag?n Spain composer and priest born in Calanda, Spain in the area of Bajo Arag?n. He became the dominant figure of Spain baroque music, and has influenced several composers well into the twentieth century....
     (1640-1710)
  • Robert de Visée
    Robert de Visée

    Robert de Vis?e was a lutenist, baroque guitar, theorbo and viol at the court of Louis XIV, as well as a singer, and composer for lute, theorbo and guitar....
     (ca 1658-1725)
  • Francisco Guerau
    Francisco Guerau

    Francisco Guerau was a Spain Baroque music composer. Born on Majorca, he entered the singing school at the Royal College in Madrid in 1659, becoming a member of the Royal Chapel as an alto singer and composer ten years later....
    's Poema harmonico
  • Francesco Corbetta
    Francesco Corbetta

    Francesco Corbetta was an Italy Baroque guitar virtuoso, teacher and composer. He worked at the royal court of Louis XIV of France in Paris and then left for London....
     (1615 – 1681)
  • Santiago de Murcia
    Santiago de Murcia

    Santiago de Murcia ; died after 1732) was a Spanish people guitarist and composer....
     (ca. 1682 - ca. 1740)


Baroque guitar maker


Historic baroque guitar makers

The Voboam family, Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
.
  • Nicholas Alexandre Voboam II
  • René Voboam
  • Domenico Sellas


Modern baroque guitar makers

  • Stephen Barber and Sandi Harris
  • Daniel Larson
  • John J van Gool


Baroque guitarists


Historic performers

David Ryckaert III
David Ryckaert III

David Ryckaert III, sometimes called The Younger was a Flemish painter. A member of the Ryckaert family of artists, he was born and raised in Antwerp, the city in which he conducted his career and in which he died....
 (Antwerp 1612-1661)

Modern performers


  • Eduardo Egüez
    Eduardo Egüez

    Eduardo Eg?ez is an lutenist, theorbist, and guitarist acclaimed for his interpretations of music by J.S.Bach.He first studied guitar with Miguel Angel Girollet and Eduardo Fern?ndez....
  • Paul O'Dette
    Paul O'Dette

    Paul R. O'Dette is an United States lutenist, conducting, and music researcher specializing in early music.O'Dette began playing classical guitar, and while in high school also played electric guitar in a rock band in Columbus, Ohio, where he grew up....
  • Hopkinson Smith
    Hopkinson Smith

    Hopkinson Smith is an United States of America lutenist.Born in New York, he graduated from Harvard with Honors in Music. He came to Europe in 1973 to study with Emilio Pujol, a great pedagogue in the highest Catalan people artistic tradition, and also Eugen Dombois, whose sense of organic unity between performer, instrument and historic...
  • Stephen Stubbs
    Stephen Stubbs

    Stephen Stubbs is a lutenist and director and has been a leading figure in the European early music scene for nearly thirty years.He was born in Seattle and studied harpsichord and composition at the University of Washington where, at the same time, he began to play the lute....


See also


  • Ten string guitar


External links

  • "Baroque guitar for the modern performer - a practical compromise", by Don Rowe and Richard d’A Jensen.
  • Printed Music from 1606-1737 by Dr. Gary R. Boye
  • by the The Lute Society, UK.


Bibliography

  • Antoni Pizà
    Antoni Pizà

    Antoni Piz? , musicologist. He is the Director of the and a member of the in music at CUNY Graduate Center of The City University of New York....
    : Francesc Guerau i el seu temps (Palma de Mallorca: Govern de les Illes Balears, Conselleria d'Educació i Cultura, Direcció General de Cultura, Institut d'Estudis Baleàrics, 2000) ISBN 84-89868-50-6