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Unraveling the Discussion entre les Carulistes et les Molinistes (Paris, 1828)

by Damián Martín Gil

Soundboard Scholar, no. 6 (2020), 11–21

Correction | Figures | Bibliography | About the Author


Correction

Page 16. “Like many other experiments with musical instruments at that time, the décacorde appears not to have become successful, and apart from the Méthode op. 293, Carulli never published any music for it.” Carulli wrote one more work for the décacorde, around four years later: his opus 297, c. 1830, Deux Rondeaux, un divertissement et un theme varié. See Mario Torta, Catalogo tematico delle opere di Ferdinando Carulli, volume II (Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1993), 596.

Figures

Here are three images to supplement the discussion of playing position and scale technique.

Molino, 1813

Online Figure 1. The position recommended by Molino in 1813.
A man is sitting with a small guitar, resting it on his right thigh. There is a ribbon attached to the peg head, that goes behind the player's left shoulder, out of sight.

“On n’oubliera pas surtout de faire usage d’un ruban pendant les premiers mois, afin de soutenir la Guitare, ainsi qu’on peut le voir par la susdite planche. Par ce moyen l’Amateur aura plus de facilité dans tous les mouvemens de la main gauche.” Molino, Nouvelle Méthode (1813), 9. The image is taken from “Lam II.”

Lintant, 1822

Online Figure 2. The position recommended by Lintant in 1822.

“Il faut poser la Guitare transversalement sur la cuisse droite, de manière que la gauche la sente légèrement.” Jean Baptiste Lintant, Petite Méthode de guitare ou lyre (Paris: Petit, 1822), 3. The image does not have a page number.

Carulli on Scalar Passages, 1810

Online Figure 3. Carulli’s first way of teaching right-hand fingering in scalar passages to beginners.

In his opus 27 Method, Carulli recommended beginners to play all the notes on the first string with the middle finger, those on the second and third strings with the index finger, and those on the fourth, fifth, and sixth with the thumb. If notes on the fourth and fifth strings were to be accompanied by bass notes, he recommended using only the index finger for the fourth and fifth strings and the thumb for the basses. Carulli, Méthode complette, op. 27 (1810), 4.

Bibliography

Primary Sources (Methods and Musical Scores)

Aubéry du Boulley, Prudent-Louis. Méthode complette et extrêmement simplifiée pour la guitare. Paris: Richault, ca. 1825.

Carulli, Ferdinando. Op. 27. Méthode complette de guitare ou lyre. Paris: Carli, 1810.

———. Op. 136. Étrennes aux amateurs. Paris: Carli, ca. 1820

———. Op. 140. Concerto pour guitare ou lyre. Paris: Carli, 1820.

———. Op. 192. Supplément à la méthode ou la première année d’étude de guitare. Paris: Carli, 1822.

———. Op. 241. Méthode complete pour parvenir à pincer de la guitare. Paris: Carli, 1825.

———. Op. 293. Méthode complète pour le décacorde. Paris: Carli, 1826.

Lintant, Jean Baptiste. Petite Méthode de guitare ou lyre. Paris: Petit, 1822.

Marescot, Charles de. La Guitaromanie. Paris: Chez l’auteur, 1828.

Molino, Francesco. no op. no., 1813. Nouvelle Méthode pour guitare ou lyre. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1813.

———. no op. no., 1817. Méthode de guitare. Paris: Gambaro, 1817.

———. Op. 24. Le Maître de guitare. Paris: Chez l’auteur, 1822.

———. Op. 33. Grande Méthode complète pour guitare ou lyre. Paris: Chez l’auteur, 1823.

———. Op. 46. Grande Méthode complete pour la guitare. Paris: Chez l’auteur, 1826–27.

———. Op. 56. Grand Concerto pour la guitare. Paris: Chez l’auteur, 1829–32.

Phillis, Jean Baptiste. Nouvelle Méthode pour la lyre ou guitarre à six cordes. Paris: Pleyel, 1802.

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Blanchard, Henri. “Les Guitaristes.” In Revue et Gazette musicale de Paris 40, 1842.

Cox, Paul. Classic Guitar Technique and its Evolution as Reflected in the Method Books ca. 1770–1850. PhD diss., Indiana University Bloomington, 1978.

Dell’Ara, Mario. Francesco Molino: Vita e opere, vol. 1. Savigliano: Rosa Sonora, 2014.

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Dictionnaire des imprimeurs-lithographes du XIXe siècle. Online edition of L’École des chartesOnline.

Fétis, François Joseph. Biographie universelle des musiciens et Bibliographie générale de la musique, vol. 3. Brussels, 1837.

Long, Richard. “Guitar Mania in Paris.” Sleeve notes to Carulli–Molino: Guitar Concertos, Philips CD, 426 263-2, 1990.

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Martín Gil, Damián. “The Guitarist behind La Guitaromanie: Charles de Marescot.” Soundboard Scholar, no. 4 (2018): 4–16.

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About the Author

Damián Martín Gil holds a Diploma in Classical Guitar, BS in Physical Education, MMus in Classical Guitar Performance and MMus in Historical Musicology. He has obtained grants from institutions such as Caja Badajoz (Spain), Fundación Antonio Gala (Spain) and The Research Council of Norway. He has also been awarded the 2020 Andrew Britton Fellowship by the Consortium for Guitar Research (Cambridge, UK), which recently named him an ordinary member. His articles have been published in several journals specializing in classical guitar, such as Il Fronimo (Italy) and Soundboard Scholar (USA), and he has presented papers at various international conferences around Europe. In March 2021, his article about the obscure Spanish guitarist Vidal (d. 1803) will appear in the journal Eighteenth-Century Music (Cambridge University Press). His main field of interest is the guitar in Paris between 1750 and 1810. He has held a tenured position as a classical guitar teacher at the Conservatory of Cáceres (Spain) since 2010.

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