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Five-string Guitar (other)
Five-string guitar or five-string may refer to: Plucked * Baroque guitar, c. 1600–1750 * DADG tuning, bass guitar, with five strings (also often with four or six strings) ** Extended-range bass, extended-range electric bass guitar, with five strings (also often with six or occasionally more strings) * five-string banjo (also often with four or six strings) * six-string guitar with one string removed, often the low "E", and retuned * vihuela, from Spain, Portugal, or Italy c. 1450-1550 (also often with six courses of strings) ** Mexican vihuela, c. 1800–present, often played in mariachi groups Bowed * a five string violin, a modern version of a violin with an extra string (six and seven string electric violins also exist) See also * Guitar (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baroque Guitar
The Baroque guitar (c. 1600–1750) is a string instrument with five courses of gut strings and moveable gut frets. The first (highest pitched) course sometimes used only a single string. History The Baroque guitar replaced the Renaissance lute as the most common instrument found when one was at home. The earliest attestation of a five-stringed guitar comes from the mid-sixteenth-century Spanish book ''Declaracion de Instrumentos Musicales'' by Juan Bermudo, published in 1555. The first treatise published for the Baroque guitar was ''Guitarra Española de cinco ordenes'' (The Five-course Spanish Guitar), c. 1590, by Juan Carlos Amat. The baroque guitar in contemporary ensembles took on the role of a basso continuo instrument and players would be expected to improvise a chordal accompaniment. Several scholars have assumed that the guitar was used together with another basso continuo instrument playing the bass line. However, there are good reasons to suppose that the guitar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
