The Classical Guitar: Its Evolution, Players and Personalities Since 1800 (5th ed.). "The Medieval Gittern and Citole: A Case of Mistaken Identity". Early instrument expert Francis William Galpin mentioned the instrument in his book, Old English Instruments of Music (pages 21-22), calling it the "Guitare Moresca" or "Chittara Saraacenica", with its "long neck, oval shaped body and round back." He also felt it related to the Colascione. The guitarra morisca is an obscure instrument, known mainly from pictures. By the 14th century, the guitarra morisca was simply referred to as a guitar. The guitarra morisca is a direct ancestor of the modern guitar. It has roots in the four-string Arabic oud, brought to Iberia by the Moors in the 8th century. It is a hybrid instrument between the guitarra latina and medieval lute, usually played by fingers or plectrum. In the 14th century it is known by the term "guitarra morisca", coined by Arcipreste de Hita in Libro de buen amor. Īppeared in the early 9th century, it is an instrument mentioned in the Cantigas de Santa Maria, and by Johannes de Grocheio (towards 1300) who called it quitarra sarracénica. The use of the adjective morisca tacked to guitarra may have been to differentiate it from the commonly seen Latin European variety, when the morisca was seen on a limited basis during the 14th century. 1330 poem, Libro de buen amor by Juan Ruiz, arcipestre de Hita, which described the "Moorish gittern" as "corpulent". Part of that characterization comes from a c. It is a lute that has a bulging belly and a sickle-shaped headstock. The Guitarra morisca or Mandora medieval is a plucked string instrument. I’d like to send you a message via email when there’s new music or posts published.12th Century image from Cefalù Cathedral of a lute-type instrument that has been called a "Guitarra morisca" by a modern builder of ancient instruments. It usually also involves thoughts about life and art in general. I create music and blog about the process. But I’m quite sure this will be nice tool for my songwriting at same point I guess it’s only learned habit and my years in the local music school is to blame for that. Same for me since I enjoy playing this kind of music and making it but I’m not really a big fan of medieval guitar music style. No one really explores this music style as music that much. There have always been really popular fantasy TV-series and movies where music is obviously authentic sounding. And that’s probably reasonable since most of us consume medieval music only in a form of background music. One thing I find this kind of medieval guitar music interesting that I immediately connect these themes to fantasy literature and movies. But this kind of medieval guitar music stuff has always been with me and now I enjoy composing this kind of music as well. Neo-classical shredding which made classical guitar basics more interesting even though they were still classical etude. I wasn’t really into those stuff since I felt classical music was quite boring, I wanted to play heavy metal instead.īut my guitar teacher was smart enough to show me some of the stuff from Yngwie Malmsteen. I remember playing all kinds of classics and etudes mostly. I actually grow up playing these kind of songs when I was studying at local music school. This medieval guitar riff has stayed with me for some time now and I do enjoy playing it, though I don’t really know what to do with it. The inspiration can be actually related to Game of Thrones as well but anyways, there’s some really cool old school vibes on it. Here’s a one interesting song theme, or simple guitar riff, which is in my opinion inspired by medieval guitar music.
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