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- On “period” guitars and 19 th century guitar music

- The Tiled Rosette of the Flattop Guitar

- The place of the guitar in the musical history of Yugoslavia

- Evolution of the 19th Century Guitar

- Villa-Lobos’ Guitar music: Alternative Sources and Implications for Performance

- 19th-Century Guitar Methods Anyone?

- The “El estudio de arte guitarristico” of manuel López Ramos

- The guitar chamber trio from 1780 to 1830: its style and structure

- Fastab: Solving the Pitch to Notation Problem

- Modern Music a guide for the perplexed

- Coping with nail breakage

- The chilean guitarron: the social political and gendered life of a folk instrument

- The ‘a’ finger – taking a closer look

- The decline of improvisation in western art music

- An introduction to sight-reading

- History of Choro

- Music in Spain in the 1670s through the eyes of Sébastien Chièze and Constantijn Huygens

- The Baroque Suite

- Give your guitar a rest – a player’s guide to keeping both feet on the ground

- The “Guitar” In Britain 1753 – 1800

- Brazilian music and social consciousness

- A Proper Vernacular: George Rochberg’s “American Bouquet (Versions of Popular Music)”

- Four course guitar bibliography

- An Early 18th-Century Swedish Lute Tutor

- The Spanish Romance: From Street Music to Court Music

- Improvisation and composition in the vihuela songs of Milan and Mudarra

- Performing the music of Alonso Mudarra: An investigation into performance practice in the music of the vihuelistas.

- The spanish vihuela song of Alonso Mudarra

- The Vihuela: History and Style

- The vihuela,performance, practique, style and context

- German Lute tablature recognition

- The music of castrato lutenist at the time of Caravaggio

- Radical innovations,social revolution and the baroque guitar

- Santiago de Murcia´s Cifras selectas para guitarra:A new source for the baroque guitar

- The five course guitar (viola) in Portugal and Brasil in late seventeenth and early eighteeenth centuries

- Llobet Composition´s: an analityc examination of selected works

- Fernando Sor -An analysis of Sonata for Guitar (op. 15b)

- Pedagogical analysis of Paganini´s Sonatas for guitar

- Alberto Ginastera´s use of argentine folk elements in the sonata for guitar op.47

- The solo guitar works of Richard Rodney Bennett

- Guitar Making.The Acoustician´s Tale

- Mode studies of plucked stringed instruments

- Acoustics and psychoacoustics of the guitar

- How to make a Humbucking Pickup for a Guitar