Welcome to the University of Southampton’s International Summer School Guitars, Music and Culture course!
In this course you will be introduced to the follow:
Renaissance era ca. 1300-1600
Baroque era ca. 1600-1750
Classical era ca. 1750-1800
Romantic era ca. 1800-1900
Renaissance guitar or four-‐course guitar
Baroque guitar of five-‐course guitar
Early Romantic guitar
Vihuela
A larger guitar-‐type instrument from the renaissance-‐era. Used mainly in Spain.
Lute
A plucked & fretted string instrument, pear-‐shaped, with gut strings.
Cittern
A plucked & fretted string instrument, with wire strings.
Ground or tenor
A chord pattern that is repeated and improvised upon.
Chord
A regular combination of tones played or sung simultaneousl.
Tablature
A notation system for plucked & fretted instrument.
Alfabeto
A notation system for chords on guitar.
Staff
The notation system for all classical instruments and voices; also ‘score’.
Course
One or two strings tuned in unison or an octave, placed closely together, that are always plucked together.
String
Can be wire, gut, silk or combinations thereof.
Gut string
A historic string made of prepared animal gut.
Strum or rasgueado
Strike several strings on the instrument in one movement, with finger(s) or thumb. Often done in rhythmic patterns
Pluck, finger-style or punteado
A playing technique where individual strings are plucked with the fingertips.
Please find attached below some reading materials which you may find interesting however we only request that you read the article 'Baroque guitar' before joining the course.
Meet your tutors
These sessions will be taught by Professor Jeanice Brooks (Professor of Music) and Jelma van Amersfoort (PhD candidate in Music).
For further information on the postgraduate tutors please visit the Meet the tutors pages.