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The baroque guitar as an accompaniment instrument for song, dance and theatre
The five-course ‘baroque’ guitar was regularly employed in the accompaniment of song and dance, and did so predominantly in the rasgueado style, a strummed practice unique to the instrument. Contemporary critics condemned rasgueado as crude and unrefined, and the guitar incited further scorn for …
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Instrument of Change: The Baroque Guitar and the Emergence of Harmonic Tonality in England and France, 1626-1737
My thesis argues that the five-course ‘baroque’ guitar was instrumental to the emergence of three core principles of harmonic tonality in 17th- and early 18th-century England and France. My thesis’ geographic scope centres on London and Paris, whilst its temporal scope spans the 111 year period …