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Soundboard Scholar No. 6 (2020)

76 pages · $15

Contents

• Features
• Erik Stenstadvold, “Sor’s Guitar Music—a Fresh Start”
• Damián Martín Gil, “Unraveling the Discussion entre les Carulistes et les Molinistes (Paris, 1828)”
• Jason Noble and Steve Cowan, “Timbre-Based Composition for the Guitar: A Non-guitarist’s Approach to Mapping and Notation”
• Milton Mermikides, “Monitored Freedom: Swing Rhythm in the Jazz Arrangements of Roland Dyens”
• Katalin Koltai, “Breaking the Matrix: Transcribing Bartók and Ligeti for the Guitar Using a New Capo System”: Abstract. Full text online
• In Memoriam
• Fábio Zanon, “Julian Bream (1933–2020)”
• Publication Review
• “So that the Soul Would Dance in You” by Jukka Savijoki, reviewed by Kenneth Sparr
• CD Reviews
• Le donne e la chitarra, James Akers, romantic guitar, reviewed by Ellwood Colahan
• Juegos filarmónicos, Thomas Schmitt, six-course guitar, reviewed by Ellwood Colahan
• Leo Brouwer: Guitar Sonatas, Ricardo Gallén, reviewed by Nathan Cornelius

Soundboard Scholar No. 5 (2019)

48 pages · $15

Contents

• Features
  • Stefan Hackl, “Mauro Giuliani and Austrian Folk Music”
  • Richard T. Pinnell, “The Early Guitar in the New World: Its Route from Seville to Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico, and Cubagua (1497–1550)”
• Featured Facsimile: Mauro Giuliani’s Zwölf neue Wald-Ländler (Twelve New Forest-Ländler), Op. 23
• Book Reviews by Richard Long
  • Clark, Walter Aaron Clark, Los Romeros: Royal Family of the Spanish Guitar
  • Ian Gammie, Nineteenth Century Guitar Songs: An Idiosyncratic Survey
• CD Review Article by Nathan Cornelius
  • 21st Century Spanish Guitar. Adam Levin. Volumes 1–3
• CD Reviews and a Web-Audio Review by Ellwood Colahan
  • Izhar Elias, Corbetta: La Guitarre Royalle
  • William Carter, Francesco Corbetta: La Guitarre Royalle
  • Lex Eisenhardt, Works from La Guitarre Royalle (1671) and Italian Guitar Music of the Seventeenth Century, Battuto and Pizzicato (online)

Soundboard Scholar No. 4 (2018)

48 pages · $15

Contents

• Features
  • Damián Martín, “The Guitarist Behind La Guitaromanie: Charles de Marescot,” with a Checklist of Works by Charles de Marescot
  • Kenneth Sparr, “Barthélemy Trille Labarre: Professeur de Guitare et Compositeur, Élève d’Haydn”
• Featured Facsimile: Two Arrangements for Five-Course Guitar, the first by Trille Labarre (1787)
  
• Reviews by Richard Long
  • Brian Jeffery, España de la Guerra: The Spanish Political and Military Songs of the War in Spain,1808 to 1814
  • Nicoletta Confalone, Un angelo senza paradiso: La chitarra alla ricerca di Schubert
• CD Review Article by Nathan Cornelius
  • “New Chamber Music with Guitar: The Aleph Gitarrenquartett, Gubaidulina, and Plucking”
• CD Reviews and an AV Review by Ellwood Colahan
  • Simone Vallerotondo with the ensemble I Bassifondi, Alfabeto falso
  • Bernhard Hofstötter, François Campion: Music for Baroque Guitar
  • Jocelyn Nelson, Ma Guiterre je te chante: 16th Century Guitar Solos and Chansons
  • Christopher Page, Men, Women and Guitars in Romantic England, a six-lecture video series (2014–2015) produced by Gresham College

Soundboard Scholar No. 3 (2017)

48 pages · $15

Contents

• Features
  • Erik Stenstadvold, “A Newly Discovered Letter of 1827 by Fernando Sor”
  • Andreas Stevens, “Andrés Segovia’s Unfinished Guitar Method: Placing His ‘Scales' in Historical Context”
  • Ellwood Colahan, “Guitar Music in Collections: A New Web-Based Index is Launched.” Copublished with “The Way We Were: A Review of Early Efforts to Find Classical Guitar Music in Collections”
  • Ricardo Aleixo, “Guitar Music Manuscripts in the Senate Library of Madrid: The Canción patriótica de la alianza and its Experimental Notation”
• Reviews by Richard Long
  • Ari Van Vliet, Napoléon Coste: Composer and Guitarist in the Musical Life of 19th-Century Paris
  • Luigi Boccherini, Sinfonia concertante (G. 523), ed. Matanya Ophee
  • Panagiotis Poulopoulos, New Voices in Old Bodies: A Study of “Recycled” Musical Instruments with a Focus on the Hahn Collection in the Deutsches Museum
  • Daniel Sinier and Françoise de Ridder, La Guitare = The Guitar = La Chitarra, Paris, 1650–1950, Addendum
• Review-Article by Stanley Yates
  • Oleg Timofeyev and John Schneiderman (guitars) with Etienne Aberlin (violin), Anne Harley (soprano), Dan Caraway (guitar) and Kenneth Slowik (fortepiano), The Russian Guitar 1800–1850

Soundboard Scholar No. 2 (2016)

48 pages · $12

Contents

• Featured Facsimile: Henry Worrall’s Spanish Retreat, with an introduction by Robert Ferguson
• Features
  • Andreas Stevens, “The Life and Times of Josef Kaspar Mertz: New Biographical Insights”
  • Nicoletta Confalone and Grégory Leclair, “Giuliani’s Naples: A Walking Tour,” with a Genealogical Appendix
• Reviews
  • Christopher Page, The Guitar in Tudor England: A Social and Musical History
  • John Schneiderman and Hideki Yamaya (guitars), John Adam Darr (1811–1866): German Romantic Guitar Duets (sound recording)

Soundboard Scholar No. 1 (2015)

48 pages · $12

Contents

• Features
  • Panagiotis Poulopoulos, “The Guitar as an ‘Open-Air’ Instrument in the Romantic Era”
  • Erik Stenstadvold, “Fernando Sor on the Move in the Early 1820s” 
  • John Schneider, “The Microtonal Guitars of Harry Partch”
  • Ricardo Aleixo, “An Uncataloged Piece by Fernando Sor?” 
• Facsimile: Emil Heerbrugger’s Grand Grecian Military March, with an introduction by Robert Ferguson
• Thomas Heck, “Guitar Research Resources—An Update”