More About The Baroque Guitar from Mid-East Music: Commonly called the Baroque guitar variations on this instrument were played well into the Romantic era and in the early 1800s they were gradually replaced with the modern “Romantic” guitar.
The Baroque guitar represents an interesting transition between the Renaissance lute and the modern 6 string guitar as we know it today. Some modifications were made to the original design but the utmost attention was paid to the basic construction and materials to bring about a faithful representation of this beautiful guitar. Alternating woods with ebony fillets separating them creates a distinctive appearance characteristic of Sellas’ work. The Sellas design uses the arched back, similar to the lute, stave construction similar to traditional barrel makers strips tapered at each end. It was examined and measured for the purpose of producing a representation of this exquisite instrument. The 5-course guitar designed by Zachary Taylor is based on instruments made by Giorgio Sellas as seen in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, made in 1627. Beechwood neck & pegbox with rosewood pegs.Back: solid alternating rosewood & Beechwood staves.10 strings in 5 courses, model code: GBSLAZT.These instruments even come with lightweight but solidly made hardshell cases!” – G rant MacNeill, President The Twelfth Fret 7-course Renaissance Lute, Zachary Taylor Design These instruments are “the real thing” at an affordable price. “At last I can offer a completely playable historic Lute and Baroque guitar for a price that “makes sense” to most of my clients who simply want to experiment with this era of music. We were VERY impressed by the overall quality and appearance and the prices are a fraction of what we commonly see in second hand historic Lutes and Baroque guitars. Hand made in Pakistan, these instruments are remarkably cleanly built: accurate joinery, clean fit and finish. Unlike other sources we’ve encountered, they understand and service the instruments they sell and control and participate in the manufacture process. Mid-East Music specializes in handcrafted historic and ethnic instruments. In the 1700s, traditional European class systems were turned topsy-turvy by scientific advances, a transformed economy based on industrial technologies as opposed to agricultural production, a burgeoning middle class, and world explorations that opened the door for the ensuing interactions of continents and cultures.Baroque Guitar and Renaissance Lute: NAMM show discovery !Įvery year at the LA NAMM show we find something unique and wonderful. No longer confined to such venues as neighborhood barber shops or gypsy camp fires, the guitar now found itself equally at home on the operatic stage or in the hands of kings and queens. But in the 1600s, the guitar was elevated from the culture of the street to that of the royal courts.
In the 1500s, the guitar was a lowbrow instrument that was overshadowed by the more sophisticated vihuela and lute. This shift is born out in the guitar's early notational systems, performance techniques, musical repertoire, and functional roles in society.Įqually importantly, the guitar found itself in the center of the social turmoil and upheavals of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. No instrument better represents this radical transformation than the guitar, which was at the forefront of this aesthetic revolution from the horizontal to the vertical. The vertical alignment of sounds, as opposed to the horizontal, became paramount. Chords were the starting point of a composition, not an afterthought. Whereas previously music consisted of horizontal melodic threads interwoven into a lush polyphonic fabric (in which harmonies arose merely as an incidental byproduct), a new school of thought in the seventeenth century held that a work could be governed from the outset by its harmony. Melody and counterpoint had reigned supreme throughout the Renaissance as the principal musical aspects of a composition, but around 1600 their role was challenged by a startling new concept – harmony. Guitar chords with a flurry of strummed strings – sonorities we now regard as commonplace – revolutionized the sound of music at the end of the 1500s and opened up a new universe of musical thought in Western culture.
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