The history of the classical guitar during the Renaissance period (from the French word Renaissance, meaning “rebirth”) was a cultural movement in Europe that spanned from roughly the 14th through to the early 17th century.
By this period, all the musical instruments that the Moors had brought to Spain had disseminated throughout all of Europe. This included both the lute and the guitar.
The Renaissance guitar had only 4 courses of gut; the first was usually single and the other three double. The frets were also usually made of gut, and tied to the neck like the lute.
In contrast to the lute, the guitar at first was considered to be merely a simple folk instrument used by the lower classes for strumming to the popular songs of the day.
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