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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. The first (highest pitched) course sometimes used only a single string.
Most Renaissance lute music has been transcribed for guitar (see List of composers for lute). The baroque guitar (c.1600–1750) was a string instrument with five courses of gut strings and moveable gut frets. The first (highest pitched) course was sometimes a single string.
For example, a nine-string baroque guitar has five courses: most are two-string courses but sometimes the lowest or the highest consists of a single string. An instrument with at least one multiple-string course is referred to as coursed , while one whose strings are all played individually is uncoursed .
His compositions provide some of the most important examples of popular Spanish baroque music for the guitar and now form part of classical guitar pedagogy. Sanz's manuscripts are written as tablature for the baroque guitar and have been transcribed into modern notation by numerous guitarists and editors; Emilio Pujol's edition of Sanz's Canarios being a notable example.
Archlute by Matteo Sellas Baroque guitar by Matteo Sellas. Matteo Sellas (sometimes also written Mateo Sellas or in original German Matthäus Seelos) was a German luthier born in 1580 in Füssen who worked in Venice from 1620–1650 [1] and is best known for building lutes, archlutes and baroque guitars.
His CD album Magical Mystery Guitar Tour, released in 2012, is dedicated to the music of the Beatles in his own arrangements for solo guitar. It went to number one on the UK iTunes Classical charts, and a track from the album reached number four in the Singles' charts.
He has recorded seven CDs of music for various early plucked instruments, three of which reached the Number One position in the Scottish Classical Music Chart. [15] Love Is The Cause - Scottish Tunes for Viola da gamba and baroque Guitar, Jonathan Dunford, gamba, and Rob MacKillop, baroque guitar. Arrangements from Scottish manuscripts.
1986 album titled Heavenly Bodies including the Appia Suite, one movement of which is titled "Les Barricades mystérieuses", by British jazz composer Barbara Thompson. Re-recorded in the same year to be the title track of the German film Zischke. 1987 piece for solo guitar by John Williams on his album The Baroque Album.