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Full-Text Articles in Music Theory
21st-Century Spanish Guitar (Levin), Nathan Cornelius
21st-Century Spanish Guitar (Levin), Nathan Cornelius
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A review of 21st-Century Spanish Guitar, album by Levin, Adam.
Corbetta: La Guitarre Royalle (Elias), Ellwood Colahan
Corbetta: La Guitarre Royalle (Elias), Ellwood Colahan
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A review of Corbetta: La Guitarre Royalle, album by Elias, Izhar.
Francesco Corbetta: La Guitarre Royalle (Carter), Ellwood Colahan
Francesco Corbetta: La Guitarre Royalle (Carter), Ellwood Colahan
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A review of Francesco Corbetta: La Guitarre Royalle, album by Carter, William.
Works From La Guitarre Royalle (1671) And Italian Guitar Music Of The Seventeenth Century, Battuto And Pizzicato (Eisenhardt), Ellwood Colahan
Works From La Guitarre Royalle (1671) And Italian Guitar Music Of The Seventeenth Century, Battuto And Pizzicato (Eisenhardt), Ellwood Colahan
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A review of Works from La guitarre royalle (1671) and Italian Guitar Music of the Seventeenth Century, Battuto and Pizzicato.
Dating Trille Labarre’S Nouvelle Méthode: Caught Between Printing And Publishing?, Kenneth Sparr
Dating Trille Labarre’S Nouvelle Méthode: Caught Between Printing And Publishing?, Kenneth Sparr
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When was Trille Labarre’s noteworthy five-course guitar method engraved and printed? And when was it actually published—sold to the public? Could years have elapsed between the two activities? This essay reviews the various methods used to date undated printed music of that era in the hopes of achieving some clarity. The first technique involves looking for personal names, like dedicatees, engravers, and publishers. The latter approaches are more analytical.
Un Angelo Senza Paradiso, By Nicoletta Confalone, Richard M. Long
Un Angelo Senza Paradiso, By Nicoletta Confalone, Richard M. Long
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A review of Nicoletta Confalone, Un angelo senza paradiso: La chitarra alla ricerca di Schubert (Bologna: Ut Orpheus, 2017).
Soundboard Scholar No. 4: Editor's Letter, Thomas Heck
Soundboard Scholar No. 4: Editor's Letter, Thomas Heck
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An introduction to the contents of this issue.
Soundboard Scholar No. 4: Cover
Soundboard Scholar No. 4: Cover
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It was in about 1828–29 that Parisian guitarist and publisher Charles de Marescot brought before the public a short collection of his easier solo guitar pieces entitled La Guitaromanie. It was enhanced with six unpaginated satirical lithographs, of which the most memorable one (“Discussion entre les Carulistes et les Molinistes”) appears on this issue’s cover. Readers are welcome to review the publication details, found in the accompanying article by Damián Martín. See his text between footnotes 16 and 17. A complete digital copy of the Guitaromanie collection, represented as being in the public domain, was posted during the preparation …
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A Checklist Of Works Attributed To Charles De Marescot, Damián Martín-Gil
A Checklist Of Works Attributed To Charles De Marescot, Damián Martín-Gil
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The musical output of Charles de Marescot (1790–1842) has never been subjected to close examination. Only a few of his compositions are featured in guitar scholarship, notably his Méthode de guitare, op. 15, and the collection of pieces entitled La Guitaromanie, op. 46. And yet Marescot was rather prolific in his time. This checklist offers, for the first time, a catalogue—albeit incomplete—of all his guitar music published in France and England, offering, if possible, locations and dates for each work.
The Guitarist Behind La Guitaromanie : Charles De Marescot, Damián Martín-Gil
The Guitarist Behind La Guitaromanie : Charles De Marescot, Damián Martín-Gil
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The guitarist Charles de Marescot is a figure often cited when referring to the guitar mania that arose in France during the first decades of the nineteenth century. Yet very little is known about his life and musical production, which was dedicated almost entirely to the guitar. Drawing on several newly discovered documents, this article aims to understand the role of this polemical figure in the vogue for the guitar by reconstructing his whereabouts. Particular attention is given to his relationship with Hector Berlioz, with whom he conducted some minor business.
Soundboard Scholar No. 3: Editor's Letter, Thomas Heck
Soundboard Scholar No. 3: Editor's Letter, Thomas Heck
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An introduction to the contents of this issue.
Soundboard Scholar No. 3: Cover
Soundboard Scholar No. 3: Cover
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The color portrait of Fernando Sor which appears on the cover of this issue, not previously published as far as we know, is a hand-colored version of a printed (b&w) copy of a painting—an original portrait (now lost) of Sor—by one Innocent Louis Goubeau. Before it disappeared it was copied, in the mid-1820s, by both a lithographer and an engraver, probably in response to public demand. The lithograph, according to the British Museum exemplar now online and well documented (No. 1893,0123.45), bears the attribution “Goubeau pinxit / Lith de Engelmann / Lithod par Bordes,” which means that the original painter …
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A Newly Discovered Letter Of 1827 By Fernando Sor, Erik Stenstadvold
A Newly Discovered Letter Of 1827 By Fernando Sor, Erik Stenstadvold
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This article discusses a hitherto unknown letter, written by Sor in Saint Petersburg in April 1827. It provides new insight into the publishing and personal relationship between Sor and his Paris publisher, Antoine Meissonnier, to whom the letter was addressed. We learn about three airs with variations Sor was busy composing at the time; he was particularly pleased with the variations Meissonnier later published as op. 30. The letter also mentions some unknown Sor works, including a book of drafts at Málaga, and it reveals that Meissonnier had published, without Sor’s knowledge, music that he had received from sources other …
AndréS Segovia’S Unfinished Guitar Method: Placing His “Scales” In Historical Context, Andreas Stevens
AndréS Segovia’S Unfinished Guitar Method: Placing His “Scales” In Historical Context, Andreas Stevens
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For over sixty years, guitarists of my generation have been familiar with the so-called Segovia Scales—the systematic scale fingerings advocated by the Andalusian maestro. They have been an influential—some might say a definitive—bestseller since their first USA publication in 1953. Countless guitar students have incorporated them into their daily practice routines. For the publisher, Columbia Music, they seem to be the goose that laid the golden egg. Are they everything that Segovia wanted them to be? Two books of recent date on guitar technique attest to their enduring value and relevance. Thomas Offermann wrote in 2015: “The fingerings of the …
NapoléOn Coste: Composer And Guitarist In The Musical Life Of 19th-Century Paris By Ari Van Vliet, Richard Long
NapoléOn Coste: Composer And Guitarist In The Musical Life Of 19th-Century Paris By Ari Van Vliet, Richard Long
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Napoleon Coste: Composer and Guitarist in the Musical Life of 19th-Century Paris, by Van Vliet, Ari is reviewed.
New Voices In Old Bodies: A Study Of “Recycled” Musical Instruments With A Focus On The Hahn Collection In The Deutsches Museum, By Panagiotis Poulopoulos, Richard Long
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New Voices in Old Bodies: A Study of "Recycled" Musical Instruments with a Focus on the Hahn Collection in the Deutsches Museum, album by Poulopoulos, Panagiotis is reviewed.
The Russian Guitar 1800-1850 (Timofeyev And Schneiderman), Stanley Yates
The Russian Guitar 1800-1850 (Timofeyev And Schneiderman), Stanley Yates
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The Russian Guitar 1800-1850, album by Oleg Timofeyev and John Schneiderman is reviewed.
Guitar Music In Collections: A New Web-Based Index Is Launched, Ellwood Colahan
Guitar Music In Collections: A New Web-Based Index Is Launched, Ellwood Colahan
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Is there any really good way to locate specific pieces of guitar music within published collections and anthologies? Might there be already a best way? Anyone who has taught or studied classical guitar is familiar with collections like Das Gitarrespiel or the Noad anthologies. But it is hard to remember with accuracy which pieces are in which of these editions or in dozens of others like them. Library and trade catalogs are not of much help. What is needed for this problem is in-depth indexing rather than traditional cataloging. These print indexes of song anthologies and collections have more recently …
Sinfonia Concertante By Luigi Boccherini, Edited By Matanya Ophee, Richard Long
Sinfonia Concertante By Luigi Boccherini, Edited By Matanya Ophee, Richard Long
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Sinfonia concertante (G. 523), by Boccherini, Luigi is reviewed.
La Guitare = The Guitar = La Chitarra, Paris, 1650-1950, Addendum, By Daniel Sinier And FrançOise De Ridder, Richard Long
La Guitare = The Guitar = La Chitarra, Paris, 1650-1950, Addendum, By Daniel Sinier And FrançOise De Ridder, Richard Long
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La Guitare = The Guitar = La Chitarra, Paris, 1650-1950, Addendum, by Sinier, Daniel and Francoise de Ridder is reviewed.
Soundboard Scholar No. 2: Editor's Letter, Thomas Heck
Soundboard Scholar No. 2: Editor's Letter, Thomas Heck
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An introduction to the contents of this issue.
Soundboard Scholar No. 2: Cover
Soundboard Scholar No. 2: Cover
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The painting Home Ranch, by Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), executed in 1892, visually captures some of the atmosphere that must have prevailed in Henry Worrall’s frontier world. The singing guitarist has been identified as Franklin Schenck. Might he have been singing Home on the Range, first published in Kansas in 1873? His friend Samuel Murray sits on the right. Now part of the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Home Ranch was donated by the artist’s widow and by Miss Mary Adeline Williams in 1929. This reproduction is in the public domain, according to the Wikimedia Foundation. …
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Henry Worrall (1825–1902): Anglo-American Guitarist, Robert Ferguson
Henry Worrall (1825–1902): Anglo-American Guitarist, Robert Ferguson
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Anglo-American guitarist Henry Worrall appeared on the American scene just as the guitar reached a plateau of popularity. As vital as the guitar itself, the prevailing social, philosophical, and aesthetic tenets of Worrall's era also wove a unifying thread through his life, career, and oeuvre. His immersion in both the graphic and musical arts; his straddling of vernacular and high culture; his connection to nature and especially agriculture; his nationalist and regionalist sympathies; and his fondness for folk, popular, and heroic musical themes all drew from and evinced a Romantic worldview. Here, Ferguson discusses Worrall's professional life.
The Life And Times Of Josef Kaspar Mertz: New Biographical Insights, Andreas Stevens
The Life And Times Of Josef Kaspar Mertz: New Biographical Insights, Andreas Stevens
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Stevens examines the biographical information about the German Romantic-era guitarist Josef Kaspar Mertz.The first one, authored in Russian by Nicolai Makaroff, became the best known because it has been available in English. By today's standards, Makaroff's recollections of the guitar's situation in the middle of the nineteenth century seem deeply subjective. Ever on the lookout for active exponents of the art of guitar playing, he met Mertz twice in Vienna and witnessed several private performances by Mertz. For better or for worse, his less-than-enthusiastic assessment of Mertz's playing has been taken at face value for perhaps too long, especially since …
Return With Us Now... Featured Facsimile: Henry Worrall’S Spanish Retreat, Robert Ferguson
Return With Us Now... Featured Facsimile: Henry Worrall’S Spanish Retreat, Robert Ferguson
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Ferguson examines Henry Worrall's Spanish Retreat. Its origins go back to London, specifically to two guitar prints published there in the mid-1820s. Though the earliest of these (c.1826) states that the piece was "arranged for guitar" by Alexander Sosson, this does not necessarily indicate that it was originally written for a different instrument, such as piano. "Arranged" could mean the piece was already in circulation among guitarists, or another guitarist created or popularized it, and Sosson merely reworked it (and wrote it down). Moreover, imitating other instruments, at which the guitar proved particularly adroit, constituted the essence and charm of …
Giuliani’S Naples: A Walking Tour, Nicoletta Confalone, Grégory Leclair
Giuliani’S Naples: A Walking Tour, Nicoletta Confalone, Grégory Leclair
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With 430,000 inhabitants in 1800, Naples had become the third most populous European city after London and Paris. The excavation of the site of Pompeii in the eighteenth century gave a special prestige to the city. Its newly unearthed antiquities and frescoes led to a vogue of neoclassicism across the arts. Images of ancient Greek and Roman lyres inspired the creation of the lyre-guitar, an instrument on which Mauro Giuliani performed on various occasions in Naples--probably more for its visual effect than for audibility's sake.
The Guitar In Tudor England: A Social And Musical History, By Christopher Page, Richard Long
The Guitar In Tudor England: A Social And Musical History, By Christopher Page, Richard Long
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Long reviews The Guitar in Tudor England: A Social and Musical History by Christopher Page.