Guitar's travel through Europe
From the very beginning, the guitar or the chordophones were used to accompany dances and fiddles.
The first piece “epitafios no.4” demonstrates this perfectly. The simple accompaniment of chords in the first and the second bar. The guitar had always been the one to imitate the music of other instruments, which we can also say for the Lute, one of its ancestors. Although the Lute was one of the popular instruments during the sixteenth century, there were no such major composers of the era wrote for them. The lute was normally used in taverns for merry-making.
The vihuela in Spain was one of the most important developments for this instrument. This instrument was tuned like a Lute in d minor but was shaped like a guitar. This instrument also featured 5 courses of strings. It transformed into baroque guitar later on which has the tuning similar to the modern guitar.
With colonization it ended up in Latin America. The cultural fusion made new music. Just for some examples, the guitar was used in music like Tango, Bossa-Nova, and Samba. The guitar later moved on to the USA and played significant roles in the birth of Blues, Jazz, and rock and heavy metal.