História da guitarra clássica

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HISTORY OF THE CLASSICAL GUITAR

BOM JESUS

FEBRUARY 2014

DANILO SANTOS SILVA

HISTORY OF THE CLASSICAL GUITAR

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BOM JESUS

FEBRUARY 2014

INTRODUCTION

This text, will be presented the electric guitar. Here is shown the source of the electric guitar, history, other types of instruments in the course of time, came to evolve until you reach the electric guitar.

History of the classical guitar.

Before the development of the electric guitar and the use of synthetic materials, a guitar was defined as being an instrument having "a long, fretted neck, flat wooden soundboard, ribs, and a flat back, most often with incurved sides". The term is used to refer to a number of chordophones that were developed and used across Europe, beginning in the 12th century and, later, in the Americas. A 3,300-year-old stone carving of a Hittite bard playing a stringed instrument is the oldest iconographic representation of a chordophone.

The term guitar is descended from the Latin word cithara but the modern guitar itself is generally not believed to have descended from the Roman instrument. Many influences are cited as antecedents to the modern guitar. Although the development of the earliest "guitars" is lost in the history of medieval Spain, two instruments are commonly cited as their most influential predecessors, the European lute and its cousin, the four-string old; the latter was brought to Iberia by the Moors in the 8th century.

Latin guitar is a Moorish guitar, who came from Spain in the 13th century.

At least two instruments called "guitars" were in use in Spain by 1200: the Latin Guitar and the so-called Moorish guitar. The Moorish Guitar had a rounded back, wide fingerboard, and several sound holes. The Latin Guitar had a single sound hole and a narrower neck. By the 14th century the qualifiers "moresca" or "morisca" and "latina" had been dropped and these two cordophones were simply referred to as guitars.

The Spanish vihuela or "viola da mano", a guitar-like instrument of the 15th and 16th centuries, is widely considered to have been an important influence on the development of the baroque guitar. It had six courses , lute-like tuning in fourths and a guitar-like body, although early representations reveal an instrument with a sharply cut waist. It was also larger than the contemporary four-course guitars. By the 16th century the vihuela's construction had more in common with the modern guitar, with its curved one-piece ribs, than with the viols, and more like a larger version of the contemporary four-course guitars. The vihuela enjoyed only a relatively short period of popularity in Spain and Italy during an era dominated elsewhere in Europe