I am proud to announce that the Hudleston Collection from the Royal Irish Academy of Music is now available in the Archive Search. This brings the total number of digital files linked from the database to 6248 and the pages represented in thumbnail format to 49,428.
The Luigi Ricca collection has been added to the Archive Search. While the Ricca collection itself has quite a bit of music, only the guitar related works have been added to the archive. Use this link as a shortcut to view all the new items from the Ricca collection. To Read more…
The Giulianiad was published in London from January 1833 through possibly July 1835. Its editor was not listed in any of the journals but it is fairly well accepted that Ferdinand Pelzer was very involved in the work. There are only two known locations of complete issues of the journal: The Read more…
My article on Horetzky with a facsimile of his Quatre Variations, Op. 22, recently appeared in the GFA Soundboard Volume XXXVII, No. 4. NOTE: I have updated this post with translations from Powrozniak, Bartkowski, Horetzky’s family and my comprehensive compositions list.
Based on a discussion in the Guitar Summit mailing list I am posting links to online guitar research resources.
Takei Morishige’s journal “Material for the Study of Mandolin and Guitar”「マンドリンとギター研究資料」was published from January 1942 to November 1943.
(more…)This article first appeared on my personal site icoldwell.com in Fall 2004.
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This article originally appeared on my personal site icoldwell.com in 1997 and was titled Clarification of Information in “An Introduction to the History of the Guitar in Japan”.
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This article was written by Marc Van de Cruys and originally appeared translated into Japanese in the Japanese Classical Guitar publication Gendai Guitar (pg.36-41, No. 393, 11/1997)
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This article was first published on Matanya Ophee’s Guitar and Lute Issues site in 1997 and later on my personal site icoldwell.com.
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