guitarra latina
Illustration — Unlabeled photo from the Cantigas de Santa Maria, Castile/Spain, c. The left instrument has been called both guitarra latina and citole (left). The other instrument has been called guitarra morisca.
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Illustration — Unlabeled photo from the Cantigas de Santa Maria, Castile/Spain, c. The left instrument has been called both guitarra latina and citole (left). The other instrument has been called guitarra morisca.
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The guitarra latina is a plucked string instrument of the medieval period in Europe. It has single string courses, and it is normally played with a pick. This gittern or citole with curved sides is illustrated in the medieval musical text the Cantigas de Santa Maria, alongside another gittern, the guitarra morisca.
Plucked string instrument of the Medieval period in Europe
Genealogical chart showing the ancestry of the modern violin.
Kathleen Schlesinger · Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed., Vol. 7, p. 514.
En la sala "Así se goza" en el primer piso del Museo Nacional se encuentra esta guitarra donada por Andrea Echeverri, vocalista del grupo colombiano Aterciopelados, representa el rock en Español y el festival más importante de Bogotá Rock al parque.
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