The original title of the work was, in translation, Practical Rules Consisting of Four Exercises. The title has been relabeled it according to its true nature as Concert Etudes. The Four Concert Etudes, are large concert pieces on a scale never before seen in guitar music of the early 19th century, embodying a musical inventiveness far ahead of its time. In trying to understand the original title of the collection, one might wish to define the particular rules contained in it. The composer himself refrained from doing so and did not assign a didactical purpose to specific passages within the body of these works, restricting his verbal thesis to simple description of the notation and fingering. One is tempted to speculate that in his judgment it was not necessary to add any verbal descriptions of the various technical elements included in these exercises; the extremely detailed fingering notation provided ample explication of the didactical idea.
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