Renaissance Guitar
Go back in time and enjoy music from the renaissance. Dressed in a 16th century court dress, Joette plays music from Renaissance France and England on her renaissance guitar.
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The Renaissance Guitar
During the Renaissance, the guitar may well have been used throughout Europe as it frequently is today.
The renaissance guitar was a four-coursed instrument (although five-coursed guitars existed) the first was single or double and the other three doubles. Having only four courses, its unique sound and style are a result of using so few of them.
Although no historical four-course instruments have survived, it is clear that their dimensions were fairly small, not only because the pictorial sources, but also in the music written for it, some of which requires great stretches of the left hand fingers, extremely difficult to achieve on a larger instrument.
Joette Giorgis
Joette has been playing guitar since the age of 15. She started out playing folk guitar and was introduced to classical guitar in college. Joette has both a master's degree and a bachelor's degree in elementary education, with a concentration in music.
Joette has continued to study guitar after college with private lessons, master classes at summer workshops, and Suzuki teacher training. In Pennsylvania, she served as a board member for both the Greater Philadelphia Suzuki Association and the Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society.
Joette was president of the Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society in 2009 and in 2010 became the founding President of the Treasure Coast Classical Guitar Society.
Joette has been teaching Suzuki classical guitar since 1997. She moved her music studio to Port St. Lucie, Florida in December 2009 and enjoys living in sunny Florida with all its parks and beaches.
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Joette playing her Renaisssance Guitar:
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Sleepy Maggie (Irish)
Nonesuch (Anonymous)
Branle de Poictou (A. LeRoy)Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant-
Christmas Carol from France
