Franc�sco T�rrega (1852 ? 1909) � il fondatore della Scuola Chitarristica Spagnola, la solache pu� vantare pi� di 150 anni distoria e un unico filo conduttore.

Partitodall?opera di Fernando Sor (1778 ?1839) e di Dionisio Aguado (1784 ?1849), T�rrega ampli� e affin� la tecnica, arricchendo la chitarra classica dinuovi mezzi espressivi e di repertorio. Tali innovazioni sono giunte fino ainostri giorni grazie ai suoi numerosi discepoli diretti, tra cui Miguel Llobet, Daniel Fortea e PascualRoch e indiretti: Andr�s Segovia,Regino ed Eduardo Sainz de la Maza, AlirioD�az, Pasqualino Garzia e molti altri.

Emilio Pujol (1886 ? 1980), che studi� con T�rrega durante gliultimi 7 anni di vita di quest?ultimo, raccolse l?eredit� del Maestro in un monumentalemetodo, in 4 volumi, di inestimabile valore: la Escuela Razonada de la Guitarra,basada en los principios de la t�cnica de T�rrega, con una prefazione di Manuel De Falla, portando a termine ci� che perT�rrega rest� un sogno e che la morte prematura non gli permise neanche diiniziare.

Il Capricho�rabe, scritto nel1899, � forse la composizione pi� celebrata di T�rrega, dopo Recuerdosde la Alhambra.

In questarevisione ho tenuto presente la versione pubblicata in Spagna dall?editore UnionMusical Espa�ola e le biografie pi� importanti scritte su T�rrega:EmilioPujol: T�rrega (Edizioni: L?empreinte m�lodique), Wolf Moser: Francisco T�rrega yla guitarra en Espa�a entre 1830 y 1960 (Edizioni: Piles) e Adri�nRius Espin�s: Francisco T�rrega, una biograf�adocumental (Edizioni:Orphenica Lyra).

Alla luce di taliletture, ho ritenuto opportuno segnare le dinamiche e omettere alcuniabbellimenti e glissati. Lo stesso T�rrega, infatti, pare ebbe dei ripensamentia riguardo. Ho mantenuto, pertanto, quelli nelle ripetizioni, tagliando glialtri. Ho aggiunto e cambiato alcune diteggiature di entrambe le mani, considerandol?evoluzione della chitarra classica anche dal punto di vista della costruzione,nonch� la tecnica flamenca. Infine, l?idea nell?Introduzione, di eseguire laseconda scala discendente, interamente con la sola mano sinistra, �, invece,totalmente mia.

Bojano, 29Settembre 2020.

Flavio Sala.

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This collection contains sixty easy Renaissance pieces from various European countries, and from works of well known, but also obscure or anonymous composers, transcribed for the classical guitar mainly from lute, vihuela, and bandore sources. The pieces will be published in three volumes, each volume containing twenty pieces.
I have tried to include pieces of varied difficulty in all three volumes and also to keep the upper level of technical difficulty to the contemporary grade IV level of the A.B.R.S.M. which takes the student to the intermediate level (grades IV-VI).
The pieces in each volume are given in two versions, first as decorated pages in ordinary notation, and then the same pieces are again given in undecorated pages of notation and tablature. Therefore each volume contains two books in one and the choice is left to the user whether to keep the volume as presented, or to construct his own book by inclusion or deletion of unwanted pages, blank pages, etc, for use either as a printed or a tablet-screen book version. The addition of tablature of course results in doubling the number of pages needed for the presentation of the pieces, therefore the staff sizes are here reduced to an appropriate degree which can maintain the two-page view principle of any piece without need for automatic or manual page turners, foot pedals etc.
The inclusion of tablatures which shows a preference for open string combinations whenever that is possible, clarifies sufficiently the left hand playing positions without need for additional fingerings.
Having said that, my professional advice to all guitar students is to abandon completely their reliance on tablatures and study seriously through many easy collections of music such as the present one in order to familiarise themselves to all aspects of musical notation. And always have in mind that tablatures were invented and still are in use only for fretted instruments, and only due to commercial (publisher?s) considerations primarily, while other string instrumentalists neither have them available, nor need them in order to study/play music.

Metronome marks are only suggestions that need not be taken too literally and are placed mainly for guiding a score writer programme such as Sibelius for performance and extraction of audio and video files. To this end many other expression and/or technique and tempo marks may have been added to the score and made invisible.

NAVIGATION INDEXES ? External and Internal links

The second page in every volume is an index divided into three columns. The first column has the titles of the pieces as active invisible links which take the user to the relevant tablature page. The header of that page brings the user back to this index.
The second column has visible links (in frames) to live performances of the pieces either by professional guitarists or students, which are only for getting familiar with the music, but not as suggestions that particular performances should be followed for study purposes.
The third column contains active links to information about particular composers, found mainly in Wikipedia, but sometimes also in other external sources.
The third page in every volume contains a thematic index of active links to the decorated (without tablatures) pages of the pieces. The header of every decorated page brings the user back to this index.
Finally, the titles of all decorated and tablature pages are active links of interconnection between these pages.

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