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The clavichord is an example of a period instrument. In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written. Often performances by such musicians are said to be "on authentic instruments".
The modern classical guitar and its baroque predecessor were invented in Spain. In Spain, music has a long history. It has played an important role in the development of Western music, and has greatly influenced Latin American music. Spanish music is often associated with traditional styles such as flamenco and classical guitar. While these ...
The vihuela, as it was known in Spanish, was called the viola de mà in Catalan, viola da mano in Italian and viola de mão in Portuguese. The two names are functionally synonymous and interchangeable. In its most developed form, the vihuela was a guitar-shaped instrument with six double-strings (paired courses) made of gut.
Matteo Sellas (1600s). Antonio Stradivari (1644–1737). Of his five surviving guitars, the 1679 "Sabionari" [15] is the only one in playable condition. Two other Stradivari guitars are in museums. An instrument of 1688 [16] is in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, and an instrument of 1700 [17] is in the National Music Museum in ...
An ornate guitar made by a Joakim Thielke (1641–1719) of Germany was altered in this way and became a success. From the mid-18th century through the early 19th century, the guitar evolved into a six-string instrument, phasing out courses by preference to single strings. These six-string guitars were still smaller than the modern classical guitar.
Spanish musical instrument makers (3 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Spanish musical instruments" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
Fifth book of dances for four instruments (Paris: Pierre Attaignant) Hoste da Reggio – Magnificat for four voices (Milan: Innocentio Ciconiarus), also includes other hymns and motets Heinrich Isaac and Ludwig Senfl – the first two volumes of Choralis Constantinus , a collection of motets, was published in Nuremberg.
1500s. 1510s in music. 1520s. ... the first European treatise entirely devoted to the subject of musical instruments. ... Spanish music theorist ...