The mesmerizing sounds made by the guitar are unlikely to leave anyone indifferent. Spanish guitar has a rich and very ancient history. There is a version that primitive man used his bow as a musical instrument. To do this, not one bowstring was pulled on him, but several. Depending on the thickness and tension, the strings from the bowstring sounded differently.
Pedigree
The Spanish guitar (from the Spanish quitarra) has a rich pedigree, like Saz, Sitar, Tamburica, Dutar - musical devices that to this day are found in individual nations. Tools with taut strings and a neck were made from pumpkins and tortoise shells. A similar stringed and stringed instrument, which appeared three thousand years before our era, became the prototype of the modern guitar. It is believed that her genealogy originates from the countries of the Middle East, and she got her name from the Greek word "kithara" (kithara). But the birthplace of the guitar in the classical form in which we know it today, of course, is Spain. The Spanish guitar appeared here in the 13th century. AD thanks to the Arabs who arrived with the new instrument. Subsequently, it acquired two varieties: Latin and Moorish. It is the Latin version in its sound and design that begins to resemble a modern classical guitar. The game on the Latin (or Roman) cifar was carried out using a pinch, that is, using punteado. Playing the Moorish (or Arabic) cifar is a rasgeado (with all fingers of the hand) technique, which formed the basis of the famous Spanish flamenco performance style.
Evolution
In the XVI century, during the Renaissance, the lute and viuela - ancient stringed stringed instruments - the Spanish guitar deservedly takes its rightful place in the beloved musical instrument.
Then it was already considered an accompanying instrument with four double strings, to which Vicente Espinel subsequently adds a fifth. In this form, the guitar is recognized by Europe as Spanish. Unlike solo viuela - an aristocratic court instrument - the guitar with its chord technique is spreading among the folk. The Spanish battle on the guitar fascinates the heart, and sounds are extracted from the strings of the listener's soul.
Its transformation, evolution, perfection of mastery by performers brings guitar popularity, enriches history. Her fame takes on a clear outline, and iconography is becoming more accurate. At the end of the XVII century, viuela gets rid of the seventh string, and the guitar, on the contrary, acquires its sixth double. And these two tools become identical.
The Renaissance period becomes the golden time of prosperity, the rise of both the whole art and the guitar. The paths of viuela and guitars diverge: the guitar begins its path of development of dynamics - without bows and elongated plectrums, without bulky shapes. The favorite of the public is paid attention to in terms of its decoration. However, at first, the guitar could not conquer Spain, even though it was very popular throughout Western Europe. To this day, the kind of melodic guitar that it acquires in the 18th century has survived - with double strings, later replaced with single strings. Spanish guitar melodies conceal the eternal light and soul of the country's history. A melody much deeper than the text preserves half-erased details of time and place.