Soundboard Scholar
Soundboard Scholar is the peer-reviewed journal of the Guitar Foundation of America. Its purpose is to publish guitar research of the highest caliber. Soundboard Scholar provides a forum for all fields of guitar scholarship, including historical research, historiography, music analysis, performance studies, and pedagogy. Especially welcome are articles that connect the guitar world with current trends in mainstream musical scholarship or that connect non-specialists to the knowledge and insights that scholarly inquiry has to offer.
Issues 1 through 6 are available as PDF versions of the original print publications. Issues 7 and newer are available as separate PDF files for each article.
| Number | Date | Contents |
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| 1 | 2015 | Letter from the Editor... Thomas Heck ARTICLES - The Guitar as an “Open-Air” Instrument in the Romantic Era... Panagiotis Poulopoulos - Fernando Sor on the Move in the Early 1820s... Erik Stenstadvold - The Microtonal Guitars of Harry Partch... John Schneider BIBLIOGRAPHICA - An Uncataloged Piece by Fernando Sor?... Ricardo Aleixo RETURN WITH US NOW... Emil Heerbrugger’s Grand Grecian Military March in Facsimile... Robert Ferguson EDITORIAL - Guitar Research Resources – An Update... Thomas Heck Soundboard Scholar – Contributors |
| 2 | 2016 | Letter from the Editor... Thomas Heck FEATURES - HENRY WORRALL (1825–1902): Anglo-American Guitarist... Robert Ferguson - RETURN WITH US NOW... Featured Facsimile: HENRY WORRALL’S SPANISH RETREAT Introduced by Robert Ferguson - THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOSEF KASPAR MERTZ: New Biographical Insights... Andreas Stevens - GIULIANI’S NAPLES: A Walking Tour GENEALOGICAL APPENDIX (P. 38)... Nicoletta Confalone and Grégory Leclair REVIEWS - Book & CD Reviews... Richard Long |
| 3 | 2017 | Letter from the Editor... Thomas Heck FEATURES - A NEWLY DISCOVERED LETTER OF 1827 BY FERNANDO SOR... Erik Stenstadvold - ANDRÉS SEGOVIA’S UNFINISHED GUITAR METHOD: Placing His "Scales" in Historical Context... Andreas Stevens - GUITAR MUSIC IN COLLECTIONS: A NEW WEB- BASED INDEX IS LAUNCHED. Copublished with "THE WAY WE WERE: A Review of Early Efforts to Find Classical Guitar Music in Collections." (See www.guitarfoundation.org/page/SbS03)... Ellwood Colahan - GUITAR MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS IN THE SENATE LIBRARY OF MADRID: The Canción patriótica de la alianza and its Experimental Notation... Ricardo Aleixo REVIEWS by Richard Long - Van Vliet, Ari. Napoléon Coste: Composer and Guitarist in the Musical Life of 19th-Century Paris. Zwolle: Cumuli Foundation, 2015. 2 vols. - Boccherini, Luigi. Sinfonia concertante (G. 523). Edited by Matanya Ophee. Columbus: Editions Orphée, 2016. - Poulopoulos, Panagiotis. New Voices in Old Bodies: A Study of "Recycled" Musical Instruments with a Focus on the Hahn Collection in the Deutsches Museum. Deutsches Museum Studies, 2. Munich: Deutsches Museum, 2016. - Sinier, Daniel and Françoise de Ridder. La Guitare = The Guitar = La Chitarra, Paris, 1650-1950, Addendum. Turin: Edizioni Il Salabue, 2015. REVIEW-ARTICLE by Stanley Yates - The Russian Guitar 1800-1850. Oleg Timofeyev and John Schneiderman (guitars) with Etienne Aberlin (violin), Anne Harley (soprano), Dan Caraway (guitar) and Kenneth Slowik (fortepiano). Brilliant Classics 95405, 2016. (7 discs) |
| 4 | 2018 | Letter from the Editor... Thomas Heck FEATURES - THE GUITARIST BEHIND LA GUITAROMANIE: Charles De Marescot CHECKLIST OF WORKS BY CHARLES DE MARESCOT... Damián Martín - BARTHÉLEMY TRILLE LABARRE: Professeur de Guitare et Compositeur, Élève d’Haydn... Kenneth Sparr MUSIC - FEATURED FACSIMILE: Two Arrangements for Five-Course Guitar, the first by Trille Labarre (1787) REVIEWS by Richard Long - Jeffery, Brian. España de la Guerra: The Spanish Political and Military Songs of the War in Spain, 1808 to 1814. London: Tecla, 2017. - Confalone, Nicoletta. Un angelo senza paradiso: La chitarra alla ricerca di Schubert. Bologna: Ut Orpheus Edizioni S.r.l., 2017. CD REVIEW ARTICLE by Nathan Cornelius - CD Review–Article: New Chamber Music with Guitar... Nathan Cornelius - The Aleph Gitarrenquartett, Gubaidulina, and Plucking. CD REVIEWS and an AV REVIEW by Ellwood Colahan - Alfabeto falso. Vallerotondo, Simone, with the ensemble I Bassifondi. Arcana A435, 2017. 1 CD. - François Campion: Music for Baroque Guitar. Hofstötter, Bernhard. Brilliant Classics 95275, 2017. 1 CD. - Ma Guiterre je te chante: 16th Century Guitar Solos and Chansons. Nelson, Jocelyn & Amy Bartram. Nelson 5637610050, 2010. 1 CD. - Men, Women and Guitars in Romantic England. Presented by Christopher Page. A six-lecture video series (2014-2015) produced by Gresham College. |
| 5 | 2019 | Letter from the Editor... Thomas Heck FEATURES - THE EARLY GUITAR IN THE NEW WORLD: Its Route from Seville to Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico, and Cubagua (1497–1550)... Richard T. Pinnell - MAURO GIULIANI AND AUSTRIAN FOLK MUSIC... Stefan Hackl MUSIC - FEATURED FACSIMILE: Mauro Giuliani’s Zwölf neue Wald-Ländler (Twelve New Forest-Ländler), Op. 23. BOOK REVIEWS by Richard Long - Clark, Walter Aaron. Los Romeros: Royal Family of the Spanish Guitar. Urbana, Chicago, & Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2018. - Gammie, Ian. Nineteenth Century Guitar Songs: An Idiosyncratic Survey. St Albans Herts: Corda Music Publications, 2017. www.cordamusic.co.uk CD REVIEW ARTICLE by Nathan Cornelius - 21st Century Spanish Guitar. Adam Levin. Volume 1 (Naxos 8.573024, 2013), Volume 2 (Naxos 8.573407, 2016), and Volume 3 (Naxos 8.573760, 2017). CD REVIEWS and a WEB-AUDIO REVIEW by Ellwood Colahan - Corbetta: La Guitarre Royalle. Elias, Izhar. Brilliant Classics 95587, 2018. 1 CD. - Francesco Corbetta: La Guitarre Royalle. Carter, William. Linn Records, CKD 185, 2011. 1 CD. - Works from La Guitarre Royalle (1671) and Italian Guitar Music of the Seventeenth Century, Battuto and Pizzicato. Eisenhardt, Lex. Online at: www.lexeisenhardt.com. CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES: Who’s who? |
| 6 | 2020 | Letter from the Editor... Jonathan Leathwood FEATURES - SOR'S GUITAR MUSIC—A Fresh Start... Erik Stenstadvold - UNRAVELING THE DISCUSSION ENTRE LES CARULISTES ET LES MOLINISTES (PARIS, 1828)... Damián Martín Gil - TIMBRE-BASED COMPOSITION FOR THE GUITAR: A Non-guitarist's Approach to Mapping and Notation... Jason Noble and Steve Cowan - MONITORED FREEDOM: Swing Rhythm in the Jazz Arrangements of Roland Dyens... Milton Mermikides ONLINE FEATURE: ABSTRACT - BREAKING THE MATRIX: Reaching out for Bartók and Ligeti through New Capos... Katalin Koltai IN MEMORIAM - JULIAN BREAM (1933-2020)... Fábio Zanon PUBLICATION REVIEW - "So that the Soul Would Dance in You," Jukka Savijoki Reviewed by Kenneth Sparr CD REVIEWS - Le donne e la chitarra, James Akers, romantic guitar Juegos filarmónicos, Thomas Schmitt, six-course guitar Reviewed by Ellwood Colahan - Leo Brouwer: Guitar Sonatas, Ricardo Gallén Reviewed by Nathan Cornelius CONTRIBUTORS |
| 7 | 2021 | An Online, Open-Access Journal... Jonathan Leathwood BY INVITATION - On the Need for a Scholarly Edition of Tárrega’s Complete Works... David J. Buch - Of Self and Circumstance: Music and Representation in the Works of Rodrigo... Walter Aaron Clark ARTICLES - Reginald Smith Brindle’s Concept of Tonal-Atonal Equilibrium in Theory and Practice... Oliver Chandler - Guitar Thinking... Jonathan De Souza TRANSLATION SERIES "The Lutenist!": Anxieties, Ambiguities, and Deviations in Julian Bream’s Discography... Sidney Molina "For Andrés Segovia": Francisco de Lacerda’s Suite goivos (1924)... Pedro Rodrigues Spanish Guitarists in Nineteenth-Century São Paulo... Flavia Prando The Flight of the Maiden: Representations of Women and the Guitar in Brazilian Culture... Cláudia Araújo Garcia FROM THE SOUNDBOARD ARCHIVE - How I Got into This: Toward a Social History of the Guitar in America... Peter Danner - Notes on Some Early-American Guitar Concerts... Peter Danner - A Noteworthy Early-American Guitar Treatise: James Ballard’s Elements of 1838... Peter Danner - The Guitar in Nineteenth-Century America: A Lost Social Tradition... Peter Danner - The Guitar in America as Mirrored in Cadenza (1894–1924)... Peter Danner - Return with Us Now: Featured Facsimiles... Peter Danner IN MEMORIAM - Remembering Tom Heck and His Legacy... Robert Ferguson PRINT REVIEWS - The Catalan Guitar, Part 1: Four New E-books by Brian Jeffery and Josep María Mangado... Richard M. Long - The Catalan Guitar, Part 2: Two New E-books by Josep María Mangado... Richard M. Long MEDIA REVIEWS - Guitar Double Concertos: Works by Puerto, García Abril & López de Guereña (Trápaga et al.)... Diogo Alvarez A Tribute to Vladimir Morkov (The Czar’s Guitars)... Ellwood Colahan Archetypes (Sérgio Assad, Clarice Assad, Third Coast Percussion)... Nathan Cornelius Ars Longa (Kenny)... Jocelyn Nelson |
| 8 | 2022 | FRONT MATTER - Editor's Letter... Jonathan Leathwood BY INVITATION - The Guitar and the Musical Canon (Webinar)... Stephen Goss, Kathy Acosta Zavala, Lorenzo Micheli, Michael O'Toole, and Christopher Page - Diamonds, Abaci, and Hexagrams: Exploring the Pitch Surface of the Guitar Fretboard... Milton Mermikides - The Guitar Fretboard Deep-Dive... Milton Mermikides - Olga Praguer Coelho, Ambassador of Brazilian Folksong... Marcia E. Taborda ARTICLES - "An Attractive and Varied Repertoire": The Guitar Revival of 1860-1900 and Victorian Song... Christopher Page - "An Attractive and Varied Repertoire": Full-Data List... Christopher Page - English and Russian Guitars in Poland: A Summary of Sources Using Open-G Tuning, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day... Wojciech Gurgul - Luigi Legnani's Missing Opus 9... Robert Coldwell TRANSLATION SERIES - Issues in Transcribing German Lute Tablature... Kurt Dorfmüller FROM THE SOUNDBOARD ARCHIVE - Matanya Ophee’s Contributions to Soundboard Magazine: A Retrospective... Stanley Yates - A Rondo Allegro by François Molino... Matanya Ophee - Carlos Pedrell’s Al atardecer en los jardines de Arlaja... Matanya Ophee - J.N. Bobrowicz’s Grand Polonaise, op. 24... Matanya Ophee - Rudolph Süss’s Lyrische Suite no. 2, op. 24... Matanya Ophee - Elsa Just’s Ständchen for Guitar Trio... Matanya Ophee - Athénaïs Paulian’s Airs and Variations, op. 1... Matanya Ophee - Rudolph Süss’s Lyrische Suite no. 1, op. 23... Matanya Ophee IN MEMORIAM - Carlo Barone (1955–2022)... Adrian Walter LETTERS - Thank You, Richard — and Yes, She Did!... Brian Jeffery - New Information on Sor and Gil Blas... Erik Stenstadvold |
| 9 | 2023 | TRANSLATION SERIES - Andrés Segovia and Federico Moreno Torroba’s Danza castellana... Julio Gimeno - Joaquín Rodrigo and Julian Bream: Aspects of a Relationship... Javier Suárez-Pajares - Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez through the Writings of Regino Sainz de la Maza... Leopoldo Neri IN MEMORIAM - Gilbert Biberian (1944–2023): The Exuberant Heart... Ricardo Iznaola NEWS - New Publication: The Great Vogue for the Guitar in Western Europe, 1800–1840... Christopher Page - Milton Mermikides Appointed as Gresham Professor of Music... Jonathan Leathwood |
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