CGT PRACTICE GRIDS

Vols 1 & 2

SCORES

Isaac ALBENIZ—Preludio (Leyenda)
(from Isaac Albeniz: 26 Pieces Arranged for Guitar)

J. S. BACH—Cello Suite 3: Prelude bwv 1009
(from J. S. Bach: Six Cello Suites Arranged for the Guitar)

Mauro GIULIANI—La Tarantela, Op. 24 No. 14 (modern edition)

Ernest SHAND—The Gnomes, Op. 77
(from Ernest Shand: 23 Solos from Victorian England)

Fernando SOR—Sonata Op. 15 (critical edition)

Francisco TARREGA—Recuerdos de la Alhambra (new edition)

Antonio VIVALDI—Sonata 7
(from Antonio Vivaldi: Complete Cello Sonatas Arranged for Guitar)

Stanley YATES—Short Suite in Baroque Style
(from En mode - 22 Easy Character Pieces)

 Stanley YATES—Etude No. 7
(from Etudes mecaniques - 22 Easy-Intermediate Studies)

STUDY GUIDES

Fernando SOR—Study in b-mi Op. 35 No. 22

ARTICLES

Albeniz

“Albeniz and the Guitar,” Soundboard: Journal of the Guitar Foundation of America
(Spring, 2005, XXX, No. 4, 18-25).
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Also in Italian as “Isaac Albéniz e la chitarra,” Il Fronimo (no. 168, 2014, 24-35).

"Albeniz's Leyenda (Preludio-Asturias)." Article and Score. |view/download|

Bach

“Bach’s Unaccompanied String Music: A New (Old) Approach to Stylistic and Idiomatic Arrangement for the Guitar.” Classical Guitar Magazine, England (four installments: Nov. 1998, vol. 17, no. 3, 24-9; Dec. 1998, vol. 17, no. 4, 20-2; Jan.1999, vol. 17, no. 5, 20-6 and Feb. 1999, vol. 17, no. 6).
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Also in Spanish as, "La música de Bach para cuerda sin acompañamiento: Un nuevo (viejo) enfoque idiomático y estilístico de las transcripciones para guitarrra." 8 Sonoro, Seville (September, 1999, III, no. 5, 43-8).

Nineteenth-Century Guitar Concerto

“Three Early Guitar Concertos (the Earliest-Known Guitar Concerto and Two Others) from Late Eighteenth/Early Nineteenth-Century Paris: Vidal, Doisy and Doisy-Viotti,” Soundboard: Journal of the Guitar Foundation of America (Vol. XXXVI, No. 3, 2010, pp. 6-11).
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"Ernest Shand's Premier Concerto Pour Guitare, Op. 48." Soundboard: Journal of the Guitar Foundation of America (Winter, 1998, XXIV, No. 3, pp. 9-17).  
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Also in Classical Guitar, England (Spring, 1999).

Nineteenth-Century Expression 

“Expressing Ourselves: Another Look at an Archetypical Nineteenth-Century Guitar Study Set—Carcassi Op. 60.” Journal of the American String Teachers Association (vol. 60, no. 3, 2010, pp76-78).
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Russian Seven-String Guitar

“A Sleeping Giant Roused: The Russian Seven-String Guitar 1800-1850” Extended scholarly-critical review of the Timofeyev-Scheinderman 7-CD set. Soundboard Scholar 2017.
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Sor Sonatas 

"The Guitar Sonatas of Fernando Sor: Style and Form," Estudios sobre Fernando Sor, ed. Luis Gasser. Colección Musica Hispana, Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales, Madrid. 2003, pp. 447-492.
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"Fernando Sor, Sonata Op. 15: A Critical Edition (text and score)
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Tarrega

"Tárrega's Recuerdos de la Alhambra - a New Edition." (text and score)
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Villa-Lobos 

"Villa-Lobos Guitar Music: Alternative Sources and Implications for Performance.” Soundboard: Journal of the Guitar Foundation of America (Summer 1997, XXIV, No. 1, pp. 7-20). 
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Also in German as "Die Musik von Heitor Villa-Lobos, Alternative Quellen und Aufführungspraxis." Gitarre & Laute, Germany (vol. xix, no. 6, 1997, pp. 55-65).  

Also in Japanese in GuitarHora, Tokyo (vol. 3, Feb. 2007, pp. 16-19, vol. 4, pp. 16-19, April 2007 and vol. 6, pp. 19-23, Aug. 2007).

Also in Russian as “Gitarnaya muzyka Èĭtora Vila-Lobosa: al’ternativye istochniki i ispolnitel’skie kommentarii” in the book Kak nauchit’ igrat’ na gitare Sostavlenie, vstupitel’naia V. Kuznet͡sov (Moscow, 2008).  

"Villa-Lobos' Etudes for the Guitar: The 1928 Manuscript. 1996. Unpublished. 
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“Heitor Villa Lobos Valsa Concerto No. 2, Op. 8 (1904): Rediscovery and Completion of an Early Solo Guitar Work,” Soundboard: Journal of the Guitar Foundation of America (Spring, 1999, XXV, no. 4, 7-10).
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Also in Japanese in Gendai Guitar, Tokyo (vol.33, No.4, April 1999, 40-43).

Also in German as “Heitor Villa-Lobos' Vals Concerto N° 2, Entdeckung und Rekonstruktion ines frühen Werks für Gitarre Solo”Gitarre und Laute (vol. 3, 1999, 55-65).

Also in Italian as “Valsa Concerto n. 2 op. 8 di Heitor Vila Lobos. Riscoperta di un’opera iovanile per chitarra sola. Il Fromino (no. 107, July 1999, 16-19).  

Other

A Conversation with John Williams. Fingerstyle Magazine (No. 55 Dec. 2004, 18-25). Full text.
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LECTURE NOTES AND HANDOUTS

Interpreting Nineteenth-Century Guitar Music (1)
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