Music and Society in 19th-Century Nueva Granada and Colombia. The bandola and its History Through Iconographic Sources (1850-1900)

Based on the study of the available iconographic sources
for this period, this article examines the development of
the bandola in Colombia in the second half of the nineteenth
century. It tries to explain how for its development,
the bandola borrowed elements from other instruments
that coexisted initially with it, such as the tiple and the
bandurria; and how, under the influence of Spanish Estudiantinas
achieved the shape and characteristics that
converted into an emblematic instrument of Colombian
‘national’ music, playing a major role in its development
during the first half of the XX century.