Episode 5. The Spanish folklore and the end of the battuto-pizzicato style.
Towards the end of the 17th century, solo works for guitar appear for the first time in Spain, in books by Gaspar Sanz and Francisco Guerau. It is worth noting that this music is mainly in the plucked style (punteado in Spanish), and that strummed chords (rasgueado) are largely absent. After 1700, almost no music […]
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Episode 4. The Royal Guitar
In contrast to Italy, where guitar books had been published since the beginning of the 17th century, the French repertoire in the battuto-pizzicato style emerged only about half a century later. In a short time, between 1671 and 1686, a considerable number of works appeared in print. The predilection that Louis XIV and his court […]
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Episode 3. Michelangelo Bartolotti.
The heyday of the battuto-pizzicato repertoire was in the second half of the 17th century. The guitar’s greatest success was mainly due to a few charismatic virtuosi such as Francesco Corbetta, who was a welcome guest at the courts of Europe. However, some of the most important innovations in terms of the style can be […]
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Episode 2. Giovanni Paolo Foscarini. Guitar, lute, and theorbo.
In the early 17th century the guitar became very popular in Italy, in particular because the instrument is ideally suited to accompany oneself, in popular songs. Around 1630, players began looking for a more sophisticated use of the instrument. Giovanni Paolo Foscarini, who played the guitar as well as the lute and the theorbo, started […]
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Episode 1. Spain and Italy.
The story of the guitar begins in Spain, shortly after 1500. We first hear music for the vihuela, the Spanish counterpart of the lute. In Italy, at the beginning of the 17th century a transition is taking place to a new style, the Seconda pratica. Now the accompaniment of the solo voice takes the centre […]
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