A Short History of the use of the left-hand thumb:
Some considerations of its practical use in performance
today.
By Matanya Ophee.
Brian Jeffery’s Fernando Sor Composer and
Guitarist, A critical view of the second edition
Updated!
by Matanya Ophee.
Liner Notes Musicology, Part
I. Updated!
By Matanya Ophee
Wherefore Leonardo
Schultz? Updated!
By Matanya Ophee
François
de Fossa, Un
Guitarrista Francés en México. In Spanish. Click
here for English version.
Por Matanya Ophee
The Russian Seven String
Guitar: Celebration of an Anniversary.
By Matanya Ophee.
Dating the First Letter in the
Segovia-Ponce Letters.
By Matanya Ophee.
A
New ABC for Holding the Guitar:
Aguado + Bassoonist strap = Comfort
Auprez de ma Blonde, or, the Makarov Guitar by Johann Gottfried Scherzer.
Songs with Guitar from the Age of
Napoleon
By John McCormick. UPDATED.
22 February, 2008.
The “Cinco Piezas” by Astor Piazzolla: how many
versions?
By Angelo Gilardino
Heinrich Albert and the First Guitar
Quartet
Repertoire Issues
By Matanya Ophee.
Problemas de Repertorio
Por Matanya Ophee. In Spanish.
The Yamashita Chronicles
By Matanya Ophee.
Quién Hizo, Qué Cosa, Con Qué y A Quién?
Por Matanya Ophee (Traducción: Eleazar Torres R.)
In Spanish. Click here for English text.
First Lessons for Classic Guitar, by Richard Pick:
Book I.
By Matanya Ophee. Text of the handout given out at the
lecture on the Chromatic Approach to Beginning Guitar Instruction at
the 1977 Guitar Symposium of the American String Teachers Association. In
English.
FRANÇOIS DE FOSSA, A French Guitarist in
Mexico
By Matanya Ophee. Text of the lecture given at the 1997
International Guitar Festival in Cuernavac. In English.
A Brief History of Spanish Guitar Methods.
By Matanya Ophee. Text of the lecture given at the 1998 GFA
festival in Montreal. In English.
Una Breve Historia de los Métodos de Guitarra.
Stalking the Oldest
Six-String Guitar.
By Thomas F. Heck. was originally published
only in Japanese in Gendai guitar 9, no. 3 (1975): 64-71. The author has
mounted an English version of this article, including illustrations, at the GFA
Archive web site.
Preface to Mark Delpriora’s Sonata.
By Angelo Gilardino
La Sonata di Mark Delpriora—Prefazione.
di Angelo Gilardino. In Italian.
Introducing John McCormick.
By himself.
Frank Martin y la guitarra.
por Jan J. de Kloe. In Spanish.
My Own Editions Are The Best, Of Course, And You Are
Ugly And Evil
By Angelo Gilardino.
Rafael Adame y el Primer Concierto Para Guitarra y
Orquesta Del Siglo XX.
Por Alejandro L. Madrid. In Spanish.
Rafael Adame and the First Guitar Concerto of the
Twentieth Century.
By Alejandro L. Madrid. In English.
Form-integrating Elements in the
Variation Cycles by Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz.
By Krzysztof Komarnicki.
Two Nineteenth Century Volumes of Chamber Music with
Guitar at the Seville (Spain) Conservatory.
By Julio Gimeno García. Click
here for Spanish version
Angel Iglesias, A Great Spanish Guitar Virtuoso and the
Danish Odeon Recordings.
By Erling Møldrup.
An Unknown Version of a Well Known Phrase.
By Angelo Gilardino.
Clarification of Information in “An Introduction to
the History of the Guitar in Japan”
By Robert Coldwell. Includes
intriguing information about the Staufer guitar previously owned by Giulio
Regondi.
An Introduction to the History of the Guitar in Japan.
By Robert Coldwell. Including Notes
on the First Appearances of the Guitar in Japan and Detailed Biographies of
Major Guitarists First Active in the Pre-war Period.
Tackling Tecla 101.
By Matanya Ophee. Additional
material added.
On the Textual Authority of Old Editions.
By Matanya Ophee.
Killing the Message, Part II.
By Matanya Ophee.
Music for the Guitar printed in Sweden 1800-1860.
By Kenneth Sparr.
Daniel Fryklund—a Devoted Collector of and Researcher on Musical Instruments and other Musicalia. Bio-bibliographical introduction and comments by Kenneth Sparr.
Bidrag till gitarristiken [Contributions to Guitar
Studies]
by Daniel Fryklund. Translated from
the Swedish by Jan Ring Ellis, revised and annotated by Kenneth Sparr.
Dos Volúmenes Del Siglo XIX, Con Música de Cámara Con
Guitarra, En El Conservatorio de Sevilla (España).
Por Julio Gimeno García. (In
Spanish). Click here for English version
Un fondo desconocido de música para guitarra: ¿Los
papeles de D. Antonio Chocano?
Por Luis Briso de Montiano.
Who Did What, And With Which,
and to Whom?
by Matanya Ophee.
Brian Jeffery: «Fernando Sor Composer and Guitarist» Una visión crítica
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