Spanish Guitar Music played by great Spanish Guitar Artists

Successful Spanish guitar artists performing and recording Spanish guitar music can be divided into a number of smaller genres. Spanish classical guitar artists such as John Williams, Julian Bream, Narciso Yepes, Christopher Parkening, The Romero’s, Jorge Morel, David Russell, Sharon Isbin and of course the father of the Spanish classical guitar Andres Segovia play Spanish guitar music that span the centuries from the Spanish Renaissance period with composers Sanz and Mundarra, traditional Spanish folk melodies to brilliant 20^th century composers such as Rodrigo and Torroba.

Flamenco Guitar

Spanish guitar players that border the Spanish classical guitar styles are of course the great Flamenco guitar artists that play the incredibly fiery and exciting Flamenco guitar. Flamenco guitar developed from the Spanish gypsy folk traditions which is used to accompany the very colourful and very expressive Flamenco singing and dancing. Flamenco guitar has now come to be known as a solo virtuoso style in its own right. Flamenco guitar is played on the brighter sounding flamenco guitar and sounds wonderful in the capable hands of great flamenco guitar players such as Paco Pena, Paco De Lucia, Juan Martin and Ramon Montoya to name a few. Flamenco guitar also differs to the classical Spanish guitar styles as the compositions normally stick to the traditional dance rhythms of Spain which enable flamenco guitarists to bring in an element of improvisation which gives spontaneity, excitement and unpredictability to the music which sets Spanish guitar music apart.

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The Influence of Spanish Guitar Music

The Spanish guitar and Spanish music has of course had an enormous influence on popular music around the world. We can’t strictly class it as Spanish guitar but you will hear Spanish classical guitar solos on many famous pop records such as Julio Inglesias, The Spice Girls, George Michael and Lionel Richie etc. The acoustic Spanish guitar sound gives that sultry, romantic or exotic feel that some pop ballads cry out for.