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Matanya Ophee has reworked an 1832 translation of Fernando Sor’s Method for Guitar to reflect more accurately the pedagogical thought of the original text. This edition contains not only discussions of the parts of the guitar and proper position with original artwork, but uses musical excerpts to demonstrate exercises in technique. A true gem from the past that proves to be just as useful and helpful to classical guitarists today as it was during the nineteenth century.

Table of Contents:

• The Instrument
• Position of the Instrument
• Right Hand
• Left hand
• Manner of Striking the String
• Quality of the Sound
• Knowledge of the Fingerboad
• Fingering Along the Length of the String
• Use of the Fingers of the Right Hand
• Fingering of the Two Hands
• The Elbow
• On Thirds, Their Nature and Their Fingering
• On Sixths
• Exercises in Thirds
• Exercises in Sixths
• Application of the Theory of Thirds and Sixths
• Fingering of the Left Hand with Regard to the Melody
• Fingering of the Right Hand
• Harmonic Sounds
• Accompaniments
• Analysis of the Accompaniment of a Fragment of the Oratorio by Haydn (The Creation)
• On Fingering with the Annular
• Appendix
• The Relationship Between the Two Clefs
• Sor's Improvements to the Guitar, essay by R.E. Bruné
• Commentary

Catalog:	494-02839
Publisher:	Theo Presser
Composer:	Fernando Sor
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Voicing:	Guitar
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