title : Music Project w. Blog
From picture above: Baroque Guitars from the Museum Cite De La Musique in Paris, France (which houses almost 200 classical guitars)
For the Music project, our group (consisting; Sara Elissa Tcheau, Ng Lee Dea and Christine Tun) decided to do a research on the history of the Spanish Guitar. The reason why we chose to do a research on the history of a Spanish instrument was mainly inspired and influenced by the beautiful geography of Spain as well as the rich history of the country itself.
From Cultures of Historical Empires, from La Guitarra Latina to the Spanish Guitar
It is generally assumed that the string instruments emerged from 4000BC from the hunting bow and the sound it produces when shooting. Around 2000BC, the Babylonians frequently made such string instruments, not only in a simple harp or lyre form but even with a solid wooden neck and a primitive sound box of stretched animal skins.
Just like the bow, the strings were made of woven plant fibres or animal materials. However, other sources report the 'tar' as a primitive stringed instrument originating from India. 'Tar' means string in Indian-Aryan language, Sanskrit. Considering the size of Babylonian-Assyrian empire, such stringed instruments were distributed over a large area. Also to the Caucasus, where the Hitties further developed the string instrument into a wooden sound box with round shape, a flat top, resonance holes and fret alike bars on the neck. Such instruments appear in rock carving in the Turkish place Alaja Huyuk. Probably the Hitties brought this string instrument to the Greeks whom called it the 'kithara' meaning 'cavity with strings'.
Next the Romans took over the kithara of the Greeks, bringing the Roman 'cithara' to Europe.
Already around 400AC, the Romans brought their string instruments to Hispania, currently known as Spain. When Spain, in the 16th century, became one of the largest and first global empires in the world history, the Spanish versions of the stringed instruments or the Spanish guitar spread north of Pyrenees. Because of the complicated way of playing, the lute was oppressed by the rise of the guitar from Spain.
We chose the Baroque guitar from Spain because we think that it is a very unique kind of guitar and because it is usually used for folk songs, we think that it is very interesting as we think that not many people would be interested in this instrument especially when it has been dated from the BC which shows how old the guitar is. Therefore we are inspired to do this guitar.
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