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As Spanish is commonly spoken in Spain and most of Latin America, music from both regions have been able to crossover with each other. [2] According to the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE), Spain is the largest Latino music market in the world. [3] As a result, the Latin music industry encompasses Spanish-language music from Spain.
An assortment of musical instruments in an Istanbul music store. This is a list of musical instruments , including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)
Sachs' 1940 book, The History of Musical Instruments was meant to be a comprehensive compilation of descriptions of instruments from many cultures and their functions within their societies. [5] The book is primarily divided into four chronological periods of instruments- early instruments, antiquity, the middle ages, and the modern occident.
They toured Europe and America, and their performances created a stir that helped the mandolin to become widely popular. Although the modern instruments date to the 18th century, ancestral instruments of similar construction and range, the mandore and gittern , were used across Europe (including Spain, Italy, England, France, Germany and Poland ...
Despite the influences of Greece and Rome, most musical instruments in Europe during the Middles Ages came from Asia. The lyre is the only musical instrument that may have been invented in Europe until this period. [77] Stringed instruments were prominent in Middle Age Europe.
Europe (regional): Clavichord (Central Europe) Dombra (Eastern Europe) Guitar Zither(Central Europe) Harpsichord (Central Europe) Hurdy-gurdy (Western Europe) Lute; Piano (Central & Southern Europe) Tamburitza (Central Europe) Tarica; Finland: Jouhikko; Kannel; Kantele; France: Epinette des Vosges; Harp (Concert harp; Pedal harp) Hurdy-gurdy ...
Galician musical instruments (1 C, 2 P) S. Spanish musical instrument makers (3 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Spanish musical instruments"
See Rotta for the medieval lyre, or Rote for the fiddle. During the 11th to 15th century A.D., rotte (German) or rota (Spanish) referred to a triangular psaltery illustrated in the hands of King David and played by jongleurs (popular musicians who might play the music of troubadours) and cytharistas (Latin word for a musician who plays string instruments).