"Few people knows - and some not even believe it when you said them- that the string instrument of more rancid lineage and nobler lineage is the bandurria. The piano has more than two hundred existence years, the violin does not arrive to five hundred, the guitar if we admitted that comes of the cytara Greek would arrive to the three thousand, but the bandurria, more of four millennia! and furthermore, it carries the origin´s guarantee certificate in the own name: pan-tur is the term with the one which the ancient Sumerian designated their string instruments, the most old that are known and of this root, through Latin pandura, it proceed the Hispanic bandurria".


Juan José Rey, music´s investigating




SPANISH PRONG INSTRUMENTS (Los instrumentos de púa en España). Bandurria, cítola and "Spanish lutes".
The present book intends to fill a vacuum in plectrum instruments investigation in Spain; this empty is so much unwarranted by the long tradition that possess in our country as by the existence of plectrum´s groups of recognized quality. Juan José Rey, music´s investigating, and Antonio Navarro, instrumentalist and cognizant expert of the "Spanish lutes", trace with the greater rigor this instruments history, from its origins investigation until the baroque era, ending with the training of the most important plectrum´s groups of our era. Enrich the volume other usefulness sections that approach aspects as construction, methodology, didactic, digest, biographical notes and preserved instruments catalogue. Finally, it facilitates to reader direct information about the matter, a documents appendix that have been transcribe in a integrates way.

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