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The vihuela had a waisted body but it cannot be said to have been figure-of-eight shaped, for the inward curve was slight. It was flat both front and back and could have several roses. Like the lute, it carried gut strings in pairs – usually six or seven courses. The fingerboard was crossed by gut frets. More popular in ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

a series of wooden graduations descending to the peg box, rather than the gut frets used on lutes and viols. Styles & Forms | Renaissance | Classical Instruments | Vihuela & Guitar | Renaissance | Classical ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

In the Renaissance, both four- and five-course (eight- or 10-stringed) guitars were played, both of them notably smaller than the modern instrument and with only a shallow waist. In the Baroque period, players seem to have switched over to an instrument with six courses (six or 12 strings), which remains the standard guitar configuration. The instrument at this ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

third centuries BC. Many pictures from the ensuing millennium depict instruments exhibiting guitar-like characteristics. However, the guitar as we know it today has its roots in the Renaissance period. Vihuela One of the most significant precursors of the guitar is the vihuela, a plucked stringed instrument with six or seven courses popular in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

It is still possible to find old books which explain cheerily that the viol was an early version of the violin, now superseded. It is worth saying straight away that this is not true. These two related but different families of instruments both evolved from the early sixteenth century in northern Italy, but made different sounds and were played ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

or viola da gamba, developed alongside the violin family. It has been central to the development of western art music. It is thought that the viol developed from the vihuela, a Spanish guitar-like instrument. At some point a bow was used with the vihuela instead of it being plucked. This necessitated turning the instrument around so the bass rested ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

Classical-guitar legend Andrés Segovia (1894–1987) was born in the city of Linares, Spain and reared in Granada. He received musical instruction at an early age and was tutored in piano and violin but warmed to neither. When he heard the guitar in the home of a friend, however, he was hooked. Disregarding the objections of his family and ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Guitar Heroes, consultant editor Rusty Cutchin

1893–1987 Spanish guitarist Self-taught, Segovia made his debut at the age of 15. Considering it his mission to have the guitar taken seriously, he transcribed music written for the lute and the vihuela. Contemporaries who wrote for him included Falla, Joaquín Rodrigo (1901–99) and Villa-Lobos; he played with much passion and intensity. Introduction | Modern Era | Classical ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

Latin America is particularly rich and varied in its musical traditions, with each country boasting a broad and very distinct collection of genres whose development has been shaped by indigenous rhythms, migration patterns from Europe and the influx of slavery. At the uppermost tip of Latin America is Mexico, a country whose musical sub-genres are too many to ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer
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