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Nombre: Melania Mosquera
Curso: 4º C
Fecha 14/11/12
Listening activity numer 1

If you guessed it was a guitar, you are correct. Probably no other musical instrument is as popular around theworld as the guitar. Musicians use the guitar for almost every kind of music. Country and western music would not be the same without a guitar. The traditional Spanish folk music called Flamenco couldnot exist without a guitar. The sound of American blues music would not be the same without the sad cry of the guitar. And rock and roll music would olmost be impossible without this instrument.
Womenvoice: Music experts do not agree about where the guitar first was played. Most agree it is ancient. Some experts say an instrument very much like a guitar was played in Egypt more than one thousandyears ago. Some other experts say that the ancestor of the modern guitar was brought to Spain from Persia sometime in the twelfth century. The guitar continued to develop in Spain. In the seventeenhundreds it became similar to the instrument know today. Many famous musicians played the instrument. The famous Italian violinist Niccolo Paganinni played and wrote music for the guitar in the earlyeighteen hundreds. Franz Schubert used the guitar to write some of his famous works. In modern time Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia helped make the instrument extremely popular.one kind of music forthe guitar developed in the southern area of Spain called Andalucía. It will always be strongly linked with the Spanish guitar. It is called Flamenco. Carlos Montoya was a Spanish Gypsy. Listen as heplays a Flamenco song called “Jerez.”
Men Voice: In the nineteen thirties, Les Paul began experimenting with ways to make an electric guitar. He invented the solid body electric guitar in nineteenforty-six. The Gibson Guitar Company began producing its famous Les Paul Guitar in nineteen fifty-two. It became a powerful influence in popular music. The instrument has the same shape and the same...