Baroque guitar
The Baroque guitar is a guitar from the baroque era (c. 1600–1750), an ancestor of the modern classical guitar. 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 around the neck. A typical instrument had five courses, each consisting of two separate strings although the first (highest sounding) course was often a single string, giving it 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.
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[edit] 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.
| Composer | Tuning |
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| [Ferdinando Valdambrini] (Italy, 1646/7)
[Gaspar Sanz] (Spain, 1674) |
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| [Francesco Corbetta] (Italy/France/England, 1671)
[Antoine Carre] (France, 1671) [Robert de Visée] (France, 1682) [1] [Nicolas Derosier] (Netherlands, 1690) |
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| [Girolamo Montesardo] (Italy, 1606)
[Benedetto Sanseverino] (Italy, 1620) [Francisco Guerau] (Spain, 1694) |
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[edit] Repertoire
- Giovanni Paolo Foscarini (c.1600 - 1650)
- Angelo Michele Bartolotti (c.1615-1680)
- Giovanni Battista Granata (1620 - 1687)
- Gaspar Sanz (c.1640–1710)
- Robert de Visée (c. 1658 – 1725)
- Francisco Guerau (1649 - 1722) Poema harmonico
- Francesco Corbetta (1615–1681)
- Henri Grenerin (fl. mid-17th century)
- Ludovico Roncalli (1654 - 1713)
- Santiago de Murcia (c. 1673 - 1739)
[edit] Baroque guitar maker
[edit] Historic baroque guitar makers
The Voboam family, Paris, France.
[edit] Modern baroque guitar makers
- R.E.Brune
- Stephen Barber and Sandi Harris
- Daniel Larson
- John J van Gool
- Martin de Witte
- Jaume Bosser
[edit] Baroque guitarists
[edit] Historic performers
David Ryckaert III (Antwerp 1612–1661) kiran
[edit] Modern performers
- Julian Bream
- Gordon Ferries
- William Carter
- Jacob Lindberg
- Eduardo Egüez
- Paul O'Dette
- Hopkinson Smith
- Stephen Stubbs
- Lex Eisenhardt
- Xavier Díaz-Latorre
- Marco Meloni
- Franz Löffler
- Pablo Zapico
[edit] External links
- Technique "Baroque guitar for the modern performer - a practical compromise", by Don Rowe and Richard d’A Jensen.
- [1] "The baroque guitar made simple", by Monica Hall
- The Baroque Guitar Printed Music from 1606–1737 by Dr. Gary R. Boye
- Francois Campion - Pieces for Baroque guitar in alternate tunings
- Instructions for the Baroque Guitar by The Lute Society, UK.
- Musical Instruments in Vermeer's Paintings: The Guitar, by Adelheid Rech
- The Guitar, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
[edit] References
- ^ Dans son Livre de guitare dédié au roy Robert de Visée indique « ...il ne faut pas oublier une octave à la quatrième corde, elle y est très nécessaire »
[edit] Bibliography
- Monica Hall: Baroque guitar stringing : a survey of the evidence (Guildford:The Lute Society, 2010) ISBN 0-905655-40-0
- Monica Hall : Recovering a lost book of guitar music by Corbetta (In Consort : the journal of the Dolmetsch Foundation, Vol. 61 (2005) ISSN 0268 9111
- Monica Hall : The "Guitarra espanola" of Joan Carles Amat (In Early Music, Vol. 6, no. 3, July, 1978)
- Monica Hall : Dissonance in the guitar music of Francesco Corbetta (In Lute : the journal of the Lute Society, Vol. XLVII (2007) ISBN 978-0905655-75-3
- Monica Hall : Angiol Bartolotti's Lettere tagliate (In Lute : the journal of the Lute Society, Vol. XLVII (2007) ISBN 978 0905655 75 3
- Monica Hall : Tuning instructions for the baroque guitar in Bibliotheque Nationale Res. Vmc Ms. 59, f. 108v (In Lute : the journal of the Lute Society, Vol. XLVII (2007) ISBN 978-0905655-75-3
- Antoni Pizà: 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
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