Music and society in 19th-century nueva granada and colombia. the bandola and its history through iconographic sources (1850-1900)

Abstract

Based on the study of the available iconographic sourcesfor this period, this article examines the development ofthe bandola in Colombia in the second half of the nineteenthcentury. It tries to explain how for its development,the bandola borrowed elements from other instrumentsthat coexisted initially with it, such as the tiple and thebandurria; and how, under the influence of Spanish Estudiantinasachieved the shape and characteristics thatconverted into an emblematic instrument of Colombian‘national’ music, playing a major role in its developmentduring the first half of the XX century.