1. Flamenco guitar playing developed as a solo instrument over 500 years ago.
True
False

True

Explanation:

The fifth course was introduced at the end of the sixteenth century. This was recognized universally as a Spanish invention, and instruments with five courses were known as Spanish guitars. The musician and author Gaspar Sanz, writing in 1674, describes how the French and Italians imitated the Spanish instruments, adding a fifth course and using the term Spanish guitar to set their instruments apart from contemporary four-course guitars. Even the original owners of the Venetian Baroque guitar by Matteo Sellas (1990.103

) may have called it a chitarra spagnola. This is in fact the repeating story of the Spanish guitar: the innovations of Spain’s virtuosic musicians and ingenious craftsmen disperse to captivate and transform guitar-playing traditions around the world. The five-course Spanish guitar arguably achieved its greatest success in France and Italy, where solo repertoire emerged relatively early on. In Spain, however, there was no solo guitar music published before 1674  and although the instrument was used throughout Spain, royal courts preferred to be associated with Italian and French music