History
The Baroque guitar replaced the Renaissance lute as the most common instrument found in the home. The first treatise published for the Baroque guitar was Guitarra Espanola de cinco ordenes (The Five-course Spanish Guitar) c1590 by Juan Carlos Amat. The baroque guitar in contemporary ensembles took on the role of a basso continuo instrument and players would be expected to improvise a chordal accompaniment with another basso continuo instrument playing the figured bass line. Intimately tied to the development of the Baroque guitar is the alfabeto system of notation.
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