Below are translations from the Japan Mandolin Union bulletins in 1990 and 1991 detailing the depositing of the Takei Music Library in the Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo, Japan. Please see my earlier articles on Morishige Takei, an incomplete listing of the contents while it was held by others, and some additional details I learned from Kunitachi librarians.
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Below is the current state of my research on the works for guitar by Luigi Castellacci (1797-1845). It is still very rough with a number of duplicated opus numbers. Any rows without a library location have been found via printed references either in journals, newspapers or publishers’ lists. Any rows with only opus numbers have not been found or perhaps might be music for harp which I have not researched yet.
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Since I originally posted in 2012 about the Nakano Collection (original post below) I have been working to add it to my Archive Search feature. It is finally available! Follow this link to show all items from the collection.
Typescript in Appleby Collection, Guildhall School of Music. Transcribed by Robert Coldwell, May 2019.
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The large encyclopedia of Russian guitar has been made publicly available in PDF format at vk.com by Sergey Bizin.
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After recently acquiring a Russian guitar I’ve gone through a number of pedagogic resources to find those that might help others interested in learning this instrument.
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I am selling my 19th century French-made guitar.
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Guitar Music by 19th Century Women Composers
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Morishige Takei was a lover of film in addition to the guitar and mandolin. He entered several film competitions, although I don’t currently have much details about his film work other than the films I was allowed to copy from his daughter in 1997. I have uploaded all of them Read more…
Here is a short history of Morishige Takei that was included in the introduction to a book on Takei’s music published in 1965 by Zen’on Music Publishing Company (with some clarifying edits). (more…)