The Classical Guitar Companion

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Editorial Method
• Introduction
• 1. Learning the Fingerboard
• Fingering Notations and Conventions
• Scales and Cadences
• Open Position Scales and Lower Position Cadences
• Bursts and Exercises for Change of Direction
• Moveable Scale Forms and Associated Cadences
• Long Scales
• Beginning Fingerboard Harmony
• Triads on the Top Three Strings
• Triad Cycles
• Scales in Triads
• Triads on the Lower Strings
• Triad Progressions
• Cadences by Franz Bathioli
• 2. Scale Exercises and Studies
• Fingering Considerations
• Carulli's Right-Hand Fingering Practices
• Carcassi's Right-Hand Fingering Practices
• Giuliani's Right-Hand Fingering Practices
• Sor's Right-Hand Fingering Practices
• Aguado's Right-Hand Fingering Practices
• Coste's Right-Hand Fingering Practices
• Mertz's Right-Hand Fingering Practices
• Triplets
• Scale Exercises and Etudes in Lower Positions
• Three Lower Position Scale Exercises with Thumb Accompaniment
• Three Scale Exercises from the Carulli method
• Attaingnant: Two Haulberroys
• Giuliani: Op. 1, Part 3, No. 3
• Tarrega: scale exercise in D
• Besard: Branle Gay
• Mertel: Prelude 8
• Dlugorai: Finale (Thesaurus Harmonicus, 1603)
• LeRoy: Passemeze and plus diminuee (1568)
• Scale Exercises and Etudes in Upper Positions
• Three Upper Position Scale Exercises with Thumb Accompaniment
• Aguado: Nuevo Metodo para Guitarra, Study No. 16
• Carcassi: Op. 60, No. 1
• Carcassi: Op. 60, No. 14
• Tarrega: diminished chord exercises
• Tarrega: Prelude 9
• Tarrega: scale exercises
• Tarrega: Estudio en Forma de Minuetto
• anon: Chi Passa (Marsh Lute Book, c. 1595)
• Johnson: The Queen's Treble
• Dalza: Piva for Two Lutes
• Advanced Right-Hand Scale Fingering
• Application
• Other Applications
• 3. Repeated Notes
• Overview
• Repeated Note Exercises and Studies
• Horetsky: Op. 15, No. 7
• Aguado: Nuevo Metodo de Guitarra, Op. 6, Exercise 10
• Carcassi: Op. 60, No. 2
• Sor: Op. 6, No. 4
• Sor: Op. 35, No. 19
• Aguado: Nuevo Metodo para Guitarra, Section Three, Study No. 23
• Carcassi: Op. 60, No. 7
• Giuliani: Op. 83, No. 3 (Antoine de l'Hoyer: Op. 27, No. 4)
• Sor: Op. 31, No. 19
• 4. Slurs
• Overview
• Slur Exercises and Etudes
• Carulli: Prelude from Method, Op. 27
• Carcassi: Exercise from Method, Op. 59
• Carulli: Andante from Method, Op. 27
• Carcassi: Andante from Method, Op. 59
• Carcassi: Op. 60, No. 8
• Carcassi: Op. 60, No. 4
• Slur Exercises from Horetsky's Op. 33
• Horetsky: Op. 15, No. 24
• Giuliani, Op. 48, No. 4
• Sor: Op. 6, No. 3
• Carcassi: Op. 60, No. 9
• Giuliani: Op. 100, No. 19
• Giuliani: Op. 48, No. 9
• Advanced Slur Exercises
• Virtuoso Slur Exercises
• 5. Harmony
• Overview
• Studies
• Aguado: Nuevo Metodo para Guitarra, Section Two, Chapter One, Exercise 12
• Carcassi: Study in Damping from Method, Op. 59
• Sor: Op. 35, No. 11
• Sor: Op. 31, No. 22
• Tarrega: Prelude 8
• Sor: Op. 31, No. 20
• Tarrega: Prelude 12
• Sor: Op. 35, No. 16
• Sor: Op. 29, No. 13
• Sor: Op. 29, No. 23
• Tarrega: Prelude 4
• Advanced Left-Hand Exercises
• What Guitar Methods Say
• Musical Implications
• Applications
• 6. Arpeggios
• Overview
• Arpeggio Studies
• Carulli: Moderato from Method, Op. 27
• Aguado: Nuevo Metodo de Guitarra, Op. 6, Part Two, Exercise 6
• Sor: Op. 31, No. 6
• Aguado: Nuevo Metodo para Guitarra, Section 2, Exercise 2
• Aguado: Nuevo Metodo para Guitarra, Section 3, Study 5
• Aguado: Coleccion de Estudios, Study 3
• Aguado: Nuevo Metodo para Guitarra, Section 2, Exercise 16
• Aguado: Nuevo Metodo para Guitarra, Section 2, Exercise 17
• Aguado: Nuevo Metodo para Guitarra, Section 2, Exercise 20
• Aguado: Coleccion de Estudios, Study 5
• Sor: Op. 35, No. 9
• Giuliani: Op. 48, No. 2
• Aguado: Nuevo Metodo de Guitarra, Section Two, Exercise 10
• Giuliani: Op. 48, No. 5
• Giuliani: Op. 48, No. 6
• Aguado: Nuevo Metodo para Guitarra, Section 3, Study 8
• Giuliani: Op. 48, No. 3
• Sor: Op. 35, No. 23
• Sor: Op. 31, No. 12
• 7. Melody and Accompaniment
• Overview
• Chordal Textures
• Sor: Op. 31, No. 23
• Melody Above an Alberti Bass
• Horetsky: Op. 15, No. 2
• Giuliani's Fingering Examples
• Sor: Op. 35, No. 13
• Melody in an Arpeggiated Texture
• Sor: Op. 35, No. 22
• Sor: Op. 6, No. 11
• Simple Melody
• Tarrega: Endecha
• 8. Counterpoint
• Overview
• Contrapuntal Pieces and Studies
• Valderrabano: Duo Pleni Sunt
• Giuliani: Op. 139, No. 4
• Zani de Ferranti: Caprice, Op. 11, No. 1
• Aguado: Nuevo Metodo para Guitarra, Lesson 38
• Aguado: Nuevo Metodo para Guitarra, Lesson 39
• Aguado: Nuevo Metodo para Guitarra, Lesson 40
• Sor: Op. 31, No. 4
• Carcassi: Op. 60, No. 6
• Sor: Op. 6, No. 8
• Giovanni Maria da Crema: Recercar Tredecimo
• Four Fantasias by Francesco da Milano
• Francesco da Milano: Fantasia 28
• Francesco da Milano: Fantasia 40
• Francesco da Milano: Fantasia 38
• Francesco da Milano: Fantasia 34
• 9. Florid/Virtuoso Etudes
• Overview
• Virtuosity Is Not Everyday Life
• Carcassi: Op. 60, No. 20
• Tarrega: La Mariposa
• Tarrega: Study in A
• Tarrega: Estudio de Velocidad
• 10. What Next?
• Bibliography