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The Baroque guitar (c. 1600–1750) is a string instrument with five courses of gut strings and moveable gut frets. The first (highest pitched) course was often a single string.

History of The Baroque Guitar

The Baroque guitar replaced the Renaissance lute as the most one of the most common instrument's found in the home. The earliest attestation of a five-
stringed guitar origionated from the mid-sixteenth-century Spanish book Declaracion de Instrumentos Musicales by Juan Bermudo, which was published around 1555.

The first treatise published for the Baroque guitar was Guitarra Espanola de cinco ordenes (The Five-course Spanish Guitar), c. 1590, by Juan Carlos Amat.
The baroque guitar in contemporary ensembles took on the role of a basso continuo instrument and players would be expected to improvise a chordal
accompaniment with another basso continuo instrument playing the bass line. Intimately tied to the development of the Baroque guitar is the alfabeto system
of notation.