5.6 'Early romantic guitar' or 'Guitar during the Classical music era'.

5.2 Overview of the classical guitar's history.

3.3 Classical and early romantic period.

3.1 Renaissance (Vihuela, Renaissance guitar).

3 Classical Guitar history along style periods.

2.1.1 Short overview of instrument characteristics.

2.1 Instrument Aesthetics (Early guitars).

2 Classical guitar from a historical perspective.

1 Classical Guitar viewed from various contexts.

Hence the modern classical guitar is sometimes called the 'Spanish guitar'. Today's modern classical guitar is regarded as having been established from the late designs of the 19th century Spanish luthier Antonio Torres Jurado. 1790 - 1880), and the earlier baroque guitars with 5 courses. Examples of early guitars include the 6-string early romantic guitar (ca. The term modern classical guitar is sometimes used to distinguish the classical guitar from older forms of guitar, which are in their broadest sense also called classical, or more descriptively: early guitars. The name classical guitar does not mean that only classical repertoire is performed on it, although classical music is a part of the instrument's core repertoire (due to the guitar's long history) instead all kinds of music ( folk, jazz, flamenco, etc.) are performed on it. (The flamenco guitar is derived from the modern classical, but has differences in material, construction and sound ) early romantic guitars from France and Italy).

its shape, construction and material - modern classical guitar shape, or historic classical guitar shapes (e.g.

its historic repertoire - though this is of lesser importance, since any repertoire can be (and is) played on the classical guitar (additionally: classical guitarists are known to borrow from the repertoires of a wide variety of instruments).

the instrumental technique - the individual strings are usually plucked with the fingernails or rarely without nails.

The phrase 'classical guitar' is ambiguous in that it might refer at least three different concepts: The classical guitar is well known for its comprehensive right hand technique, which allows the soloist to perform complex melodic and polyphonic material, in much the same manner as the piano. The classical guitar - (also called the 'Spanish guitar' or 'nylon string guitar') - is a 6-stringed plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones.

Guitar family ( Steel-string acoustic guitar, Electric guitar, Flamenco guitar, Bass guitar).

Classical guitar identification