I sometimes forget how crisp and powerful smaller lute-style instruments can sound. It's very obvious when strummed that this is an ancestor of the Spanish guitar and could probably hold its own in the continuo, but when plucked it's very tender. No wonder this became a popular instrument!
That rosette is a work of art. Personally I am more of a theorbo fan and I appreciated the baroque guitar in this video more when played with a fingerpicking style because the sound is mellow and sweet and the tune more enjoyable for me to follow. That said, this has been another lovely introduction to a baroque instrument, thank you so much.
This was so interesting, and I’m so appreciative that this wonderful and eloquent musician was “allowed” (if that’s the word!) to talk about and play it for such a long time!
Some Musicians choose to have the 5th Course tuned in Octaves to add a bigger Bass Register to it. It can have 9 (sometimes 10) Strings arranged in 5 sets.
It's hard to express how much I admire your skill, knowledge and great passion. I'm ever thankful for what you have shared with us. Baroque guitars are beautiful. Music is beautiful.
That was a lovely demonstration! Sergio Bucheli has excellent presentation skills, his knowledge of the instrument and its use in musical as well as social contexts, and the enthusiasm he presented it with, was a true joy to watch. In addition, he performed all of the examples beautifully, I especially liked the Corbetta segment. The video was also produced exactly the way it should be: Camera angles that supported the narrative, and sound recording that showed off the instrument in the best possible light. The video editing was great, 14 minutes just flowed away. I could have watched more, but for what it was, it was perfect. And you made it look so easy. Thank you!
Since it's tuned like the 1st 5 Strings of our Modern Day Guitar (& at Eb Standard in this case), it paved the Path for the 6 Course versions adding on another E String (which is 2 Octaves below the 1st string).
That piece by Santiago de Murcias was strikingly modern-sounding to my ear, with its flatted sevenths and strumming style. The whole video is a delight. Thank you so much for the education and for your wonderful playing.
Absolutely fascinating video, it really makes you want to play the Baroque guitar! I love the versatility of this little instrument which can make a very soft sound but also project in a surprising way. We often hear the repertoire of the Baroque guitar on modern classical guitar, but definitely it's better on the original instrument.
Great video and nice explanation. In Chile we have something called "Guitarron", that it's similar to the baroque guitar in the sense that has double-order strings (25 strings in total) and a similar technique (as many other double order string instruments). Excelente todo! un abrazo
Modern day 6-string guitars have their advantages but I really like the kind of things you can accomplish with the amount of strings and tuning this guitar has. It's great to sing along to, but also great for accompanying other instruments or doing melody. Wish that standard guitars hadn't drifted so far away from this
Thanks for sharing. I love baroque guitar and lute and theorbo as well. They make the best basso continuo accompaniments for traverso flute and alto recorder. Could you make a video about the French musette de cour?
Probably worthwhile mentioning that the re-entrant tuning schemes varied, often both 4th and 5th strings were tuned in octave pairs (fully re-entrant) and that sometimes both of the 4th and 5th were pairs of bordons (thicker lower sounding strings) tuned in manner of modern guitar. Tuning varied regionally and often chosen for demands of the particular music in question. For example Gasper Sanz particularly recommended fully re-entrant if one wanted to play in the "modern" campanella style.
Histerical... but if you want a cheap alternative, Caipira guitars from Brazil are really similar. Really weird that the presenter didn't mentioned it at the end of the video.
@@Montcalf091 The extra peg is purely decorational. The highest string has been the "singing string" (fr. chanterelle) ever since the Renaissance Lute to play the top voice melody.
Your strumming is cute, i know the strumming because in a ENM UNAM, playing this instrument, i liked and is beautiful the Baroque Music, i see the Renassiment Guitar, you said what is a family of other instrument, is a strumming instrument? Thanks for your class, do you know the dance of Renassiment and Music of ? Idont remember the Town is in underlands, the town in under of London and i know what in Mittle Age is a know Town, Canterbury or ? Here in México play in a Town from my Mothers born, the Jarana Jarocha, in Córdoba Veracruz, and in a Town of my Father born, play the Jarana Huapanguera, my Father born in Real del Monte in Hidalgo, here live English people, My Grandfather was fighther, was boxing and my Father play Football in Firts Leage of México, my cousin play in Mariachi here in Cd Sahagun Hidalgo, in Córdoba my Grandfather ( Father of my Mother) play baseball, my Mother make a paletas de hielo ( ice pop) delicius, i hope one day know México... here in Tepeapulco Hidalgo is beautiful
That's what that damn thing is called!? Shit, I've been saying mandolin this whole time Nevertheless, it sounds nice! I think I'd have a crisis if I dropped that thing.... hearing a regular guitar fall is gutwrenching, this one is pretty
They never disappeared. They were the evolutions of the oud and vijuela, and they were succeeded by the classical guitar, the acoustic and the electric. These are alive instruments that evolve with their audience and musicians.
This confirms for me that guitars are not my thing. Usually. I don't like the sound. It sounds rude to me. Even plucked it does not compare well to a lute.
What about the modern classical guitar and huge, almost unparalleled, access and variation of colour? Is interesting when people don’t like a particular instrument.
@@gilbertwalker3222 when I say I don't like guitars I mean that generally.The sound is 'loud'. Which can be okay if it's suits the music I guess. I am thinking of modern music with electric guitars here for example. Also there is music played with classical guitars that I like or have liked in the past. But especially when we get to older styles of music. I prefer the, to my ears anyway, more sensitive more balanced instruments like lutes. Guitars often just seem too invasive. Therefore they can sound rude to me. But style of music matters. I like cellos. But in a more intimate piece written for a viola da gamba I don't think a cello sounds right. The timbre of a viola da gamba that fills the spaces between the notes is 'often' filled with technique and vibrato when a cello is used. Which changes the piece. It can sound like a collision of styles in my ears. You mentioned colour. I assume you mean the colour of the sound? I must admit ignorance here. Are modern guitars and maybe other instruments more varied than in the past? The colour of sounds matters ofc. A great deal. I hope this kinda makes sense. I don't really know how to describe it.
@@ttaibe that’s very interesting. I understand you, the sound of a modern guitar can be overly harsh in their need to compete as ‘concert’ instruments. By colour, I mean the colour of the sound, yes! No instrument has as varied a sound as the ‘modern’ guitar. What it lacks in volume, projection and sustain (in comparison) as an instrument can be made up for with its tone colour. You can imitate these things through colour (warm or bright sounds, or just different types of sound in general). It’s kind of like being a magician, creating an aural illusion. I think that’s the guitars most exciting aspect! It’s ability for illusion. Timbre colour provides real variation and excitement in how the musician can approach interpretations! Of course the piano and other instruments have tone colour or timbre but it’s no where near as prominent! John Dowland, even though it was written for the lute, can actually sound incredible on guitar with its clarity of line but also its access to more varied colour! I think a lot of modern guitarists and guitar makers have forgotten how intimate and colourful the guitar can be! It’s used like a fretted piano, rather than a plucked instrument. I agree, certain repertoire requires certain instruments and older instruments do seem to fill that space you talk about! It gives them a particular resonance and haunting quality modern instruments are perhaps lacking. Thank you for the interesting reply, I appreciate it!
Yes, the rosette is certainly functional, q.v. a classical guitar's tornavoz. "It doesn't have any function for the sound" is simply wrong. Dude; nobody's spending hours on an aspect of instrument with no function nor benefit. Maybe you should build some instruments yourself to learn that basic lesson of construction.
So we have baroque that is synonym with Spanish Empire and somehow these guitars travelled within the Spanish Empire into a strange place called Latin America rather that Hispano America. Obfuscate, distort, misrepresent and anathemize. How anglo, french and mostly vile protestant propaganda swallowed 3 centuries of one of the most moral empires and civilizations ever. Father to so many things universal, a first modernity that was not ungodly, the first statism with it's outstanding imperial burocracy, european philosophy is all built up from and distorted from scholastics, the school of salamanca, the scientific demonstration of the roundness of earth with it's first circumnavigation, the first global trade, the first global coin, the new maps of the world showing its entirety to mankind... Let's call them spaniards, distort and usurpate their legacy, call Hispano American latin america. Let's go to hell......
I sometimes forget how crisp and powerful smaller lute-style instruments can sound. It's very obvious when strummed that this is an ancestor of the Spanish guitar and could probably hold its own in the continuo, but when plucked it's very tender. No wonder this became a popular instrument!
That rosette is a work of art.
Personally I am more of a theorbo fan and I appreciated the baroque guitar in this video more when played with a fingerpicking style because the sound is mellow and sweet and the tune more enjoyable for me to follow.
That said, this has been another lovely introduction to a baroque instrument, thank you so much.
This was so interesting, and I’m so appreciative that this wonderful and eloquent musician was “allowed” (if that’s the word!) to talk about and play it for such a long time!
Sergio, I encourage you to publish a collection of your favorite baroque guitar pieces. I will be the first in line to buy it, I promise!
And me, great idea
Super cool rosette
That von mépris chaque jour was played beautifully, and now I want more of this forgotten instrument.
Some Musicians choose to have the 5th Course tuned in Octaves to add a bigger Bass Register to it. It can have 9 (sometimes 10) Strings arranged in 5 sets.
It's hard to express how much I admire your skill, knowledge and great passion. I'm ever thankful for what you have shared with us.
Baroque guitars are beautiful. Music is beautiful.
The most enchanting 15 minutes of my day. Thank you so much Sergio Bucheli, Thank you so much OAE!
That was a lovely demonstration! Sergio Bucheli has excellent presentation skills, his knowledge of the instrument and its use in musical as well as social contexts, and the enthusiasm he presented it with, was a true joy to watch. In addition, he performed all of the examples beautifully, I especially liked the Corbetta segment. The video was also produced exactly the way it should be: Camera angles that supported the narrative, and sound recording that showed off the instrument in the best possible light. The video editing was great, 14 minutes just flowed away. I could have watched more, but for what it was, it was perfect. And you made it look so easy. Thank you!
Since it's tuned like the 1st 5 Strings of our Modern Day Guitar (& at Eb Standard in this case), it paved the Path for the 6 Course versions adding on another E String (which is 2 Octaves below the 1st string).
As someone who's seen all of the instrument "Introducing" videos I can say that this is so far the best of them!
Great work, OAE!
The unknown word was "tiple", a 12-string instrument mainly used in andean music from Colombia (pasillos, guabinas, bambucos, etc.)
Love the string spacing
I love the sound of the baroque guitar!
I’d love to hear this paired with Cuban Son music
I love how the guitar resonates as he speaks. :)
That piece by Santiago de Murcias was strikingly modern-sounding to my ear, with its flatted sevenths and strumming style. The whole video is a delight. Thank you so much for the education and for your wonderful playing.
Wonderful introduction to the Baroque Guitar
Thank you so much for the demonstration!
May I suggest the rosette serves one important function . ? It prevent you losing. Your plectrum or valuable object inside the guitar !!!
Even though I don't play I think it's a wonderful instrument!
Like ovation the back❤
I recommend watching the videos of Rolf Lislevand playing the baroque guitar, he really rocks the guitar.
I'll check
Rolf is amazing!
Fascinating and so informative! Very enjoyable video!
Absolutely fascinating video, it really makes you want to play the Baroque guitar! I love the versatility of this little instrument which can make a very soft sound but also project in a surprising way. We often hear the repertoire of the Baroque guitar on modern classical guitar, but definitely it's better on the original instrument.
Brilliant video and performance, ❤
these are always so fun and relaxing to watch❤️
Thank you for your job. I believe considering introducing the vihuela would be great.
Great video and nice explanation. In Chile we have something called "Guitarron", that it's similar to the baroque guitar in the sense that has double-order strings (25 strings in total) and a similar technique (as many other double order string instruments). Excelente todo! un abrazo
To Cool ! Thank you Sir . Much Respect and Blessings to you and your family .🤠🖖
Carved back? Looks more like a faceted laminated back to me. Nice presentation, thank you.
I think he was saying "curved back"
Modern day 6-string guitars have their advantages but I really like the kind of things you can accomplish with the amount of strings and tuning this guitar has. It's great to sing along to, but also great for accompanying other instruments or doing melody. Wish that standard guitars hadn't drifted so far away from this
Classical guitars gave much of that up for more midrange and bass, and honestly I think the tradeoff made it worse at a lot of things
Thanks for sharing. I love baroque guitar and lute and theorbo as well. They make the best basso continuo accompaniments for traverso flute and alto recorder. Could you make a video about the French musette de cour?
Amazing! Which chaconne is that by Corbetta?
C major. Listen to his Caprice De Chaconne, if you haven’t yet.
What a player bravoo🎉
Great performance and talk
Fascinating!
That’s very lovely
Probably worthwhile mentioning that the re-entrant tuning schemes varied, often both 4th and 5th strings were tuned in octave pairs (fully re-entrant) and that sometimes both of the 4th and 5th were pairs of bordons (thicker lower sounding strings) tuned in manner of modern guitar. Tuning varied regionally and often chosen for demands of the particular music in question. For example Gasper Sanz particularly recommended fully re-entrant if one wanted to play in the "modern" campanella style.
the hole rosette is Cymatics so i would suggest it would contribute and would do something cool instrument ...
God I love the baroque guitar. If only i could find one that doesn't cost 1,000 dollars, i'd love to learn it.
Beautiful!
I'm amazed by how much is known about these 400+ year old techniques
they were well documented, the printing press was booming, and the nobilities were interested, so a lot was printed down.
🤔
Fantastic! 👍🏻
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This is fascinating stuff. Do we have any idea of the right hand playing style with regard to the nails - flesh, nail or a bit of both?
Cool!!! Thanks! 😎🌞🎻
Wonderful video about a beautiful instrument! One (non-musical) error: Queen Anne was the daughter of James VII & II, not Charles II.
Nice! 😊
I do have a serious question … why are there no 12 string classical (nylon string) guitars in unison pairs …an evolution that never took place ?
Good point
You didnt mention other tunings like octave A and octave g. My baroque guitar has octave A and D but not G sadly
Was the plectrum much used?
I would love one but I'm flat baroque
That joke's too sharp for me.
Histerical... but if you want a cheap alternative, Caipira guitars from Brazil are really similar. Really weird that the presenter didn't mentioned it at the end of the video.
So big deal, my bass guitar has been baroque for months. Yet still, I persevere on it.
Are u shure of frets real cents?
but does it chug?
Sounds more like the brazilian viola caipira than the modern guitar. Love these videos.
Yeah, cool. But can you play Wonderwall with it?
one tuning peg seems to be unemployed.
on takes with playing there's some funky static in the right channel.
First course has a single string, but it can be strung with two strings, thats why there's an extra peg
@@Montcalf091 was my first thought but i couldn't see on the video if the nut is cut for a double course. Makes sense
@@Montcalf091 The extra peg is purely decorational. The highest string has been the "singing string" (fr. chanterelle) ever since the Renaissance Lute to play the top voice melody.
looks as if like a Nebuchadnezzar sized wine bottle with strings. lol.
If it's baroque why don't you fix it?
LMAO
No Stairway
Your strumming is cute, i know the strumming because in a ENM UNAM, playing this instrument, i liked and is beautiful the Baroque Music, i see the Renassiment Guitar, you said what is a family of other instrument, is a strumming instrument? Thanks for your class, do you know the dance of Renassiment and Music of ? Idont remember the Town is in underlands, the town in under of London and i know what in Mittle Age is a know Town, Canterbury or ? Here in México play in a Town from my Mothers born, the Jarana Jarocha, in Córdoba Veracruz, and in a Town of my Father born, play the Jarana Huapanguera, my Father born in Real del Monte in Hidalgo, here live English people, My Grandfather was fighther, was boxing and my Father play Football in Firts Leage of México, my cousin play in Mariachi here in Cd Sahagun Hidalgo, in Córdoba my Grandfather ( Father of my Mother) play baseball, my Mother make a paletas de hielo ( ice pop) delicius, i hope one day know México... here in Tepeapulco Hidalgo is beautiful
That's what that damn thing is called!?
Shit, I've been saying mandolin this whole time
Nevertheless, it sounds nice!
I think I'd have a crisis if I dropped that thing.... hearing a regular guitar fall is gutwrenching, this one is pretty
Put up a horse drawn carriage lot.
I didnt know david foster wallace was an expert on guitars as well
Toss a coin to your witcher!
Joni Mitchell!!!
5 courses? Jaco only needed 4……no, wait
😂
Now play thunderstruck
Of course I'm joking
Very interesting, you heretic! There is no any other instrument than a classic guitar in Our land! -Throw him to the lions!
straight frets? I can BS.
The disappearance of the Baroque guitar, lute, and theorbo from modern music should have never happened. Someone owes us a big apology.
They didn't disappear. You literally are watching a video of a dude playing the crap out of a Baroque guitar.
They never disappeared. They were the evolutions of the oud and vijuela, and they were succeeded by the classical guitar, the acoustic and the electric. These are alive instruments that evolve with their audience and musicians.
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I play broke guitar. I'm poor.
I play a bloke’s guitar who lives a couple of streets away.l’m even poorer.😌
If it's baroque maybe you could get it fixed...
This confirms for me that guitars are not my thing. Usually. I don't like the sound. It sounds rude to me.
Even plucked it does not compare well to a lute.
What about the modern classical guitar and huge, almost unparalleled, access and variation of colour?
Is interesting when people don’t like a particular instrument.
@@gilbertwalker3222 when I say I don't like guitars
I mean that generally.The sound is 'loud'. Which can be okay if it's suits the music I guess. I am thinking of modern music with electric guitars here for example.
Also there is music played with classical guitars that I like or have liked in the past.
But especially when we get to older styles of music. I prefer the, to my ears anyway, more sensitive more balanced instruments like lutes. Guitars often just seem too invasive. Therefore they can sound rude to me.
But style of music matters. I like cellos. But in a more intimate piece written for a viola da gamba I don't think a cello sounds right. The timbre of a viola da gamba that fills the spaces between the notes is 'often' filled with technique and vibrato when a cello is used. Which changes the piece. It can sound like a collision of styles in my ears.
You mentioned colour. I assume you mean the colour of the sound? I must admit ignorance here. Are modern guitars and maybe other instruments more varied than in the past?
The colour of sounds matters ofc. A great deal.
I hope this kinda makes sense. I don't really know how to describe it.
@@ttaibe that’s very interesting. I understand you, the sound of a modern guitar can be overly harsh in their need to compete as ‘concert’ instruments.
By colour, I mean the colour of the sound, yes! No instrument has as varied a sound as the ‘modern’ guitar. What it lacks in volume, projection and sustain (in comparison) as an instrument can be made up for with its tone colour. You can imitate these things through colour (warm or bright sounds, or just different types of sound in general). It’s kind of like being a magician, creating an aural illusion. I think that’s the guitars most exciting aspect! It’s ability for illusion. Timbre colour provides real variation and excitement in how the musician can approach interpretations! Of course the piano and other instruments have tone colour or timbre but it’s no where near as prominent! John Dowland, even though it was written for the lute, can actually sound incredible on guitar with its clarity of line but also its access to more varied colour!
I think a lot of modern guitarists and guitar makers have forgotten how intimate and colourful the guitar can be! It’s used like a fretted piano, rather than a plucked instrument.
I agree, certain repertoire requires certain instruments and older instruments do seem to fill that space you talk about! It gives them a particular resonance and haunting quality modern instruments are perhaps lacking. Thank you for the interesting reply, I appreciate it!
@@gilbertwalker3222 I appreciate your question and answer. It is interesting, I agree. I will look for some different dowland music for comparison.
Yes, the rosette is certainly functional, q.v. a classical guitar's tornavoz. "It doesn't have any function for the sound" is simply wrong. Dude; nobody's spending hours on an aspect of instrument with no function nor benefit. Maybe you should build some instruments yourself to learn that basic lesson of construction.
So we have baroque that is synonym with Spanish Empire and somehow these guitars travelled within the Spanish Empire into a strange place called Latin America rather that Hispano America.
Obfuscate, distort, misrepresent and anathemize. How anglo, french and mostly vile protestant propaganda swallowed 3 centuries of one of the most moral empires and civilizations ever. Father to so many things universal, a first modernity that was not ungodly, the first statism with it's outstanding imperial burocracy, european philosophy is all built up from and distorted from scholastics, the school of salamanca, the scientific demonstration of the roundness of earth with it's first circumnavigation, the first global trade, the first global coin, the new maps of the world showing its entirety to mankind...
Let's call them spaniards, distort and usurpate their legacy, call Hispano American latin america.
Let's go to hell......