Die Gitarre
Die Gitarre was published by Erwin Schwarz-Reiflingen in Berlin from 1919 through 1933.
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A Short History of the use of the left-hand thumb
Editor’s Note: This article is based on the text and pictures of a lecture I delivered at the 2007 IARGUS conference in Iowa City. My audience at that conference was rather small, but the subject matter, it seems to me, is of great interest to many who could not have come to Iowa. Hence, I am posting this on line, in the hope that it will be useful to those who are venturing now into this exciting old/new field of guitar music.
Some considerations of its practical use in performance today.
By Matanya Ophee
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A. T. Huerta Life and Works: new research
With the book “A. T. Huerta Life and Works” I wrote with Javier Suárez-Pajares in 2006 out of print (digital edition still available) and no current plans for a second edition, I will post information here about new music and information that has been discovered about Huerta.
(more…)Fernando Sor’s Page
by Jesús de las Heras Jiménez
(more…)Cynicism and Contempt? The Reviewer Reviewed
By Matanya Ophee
(more…)Geppetto’s Brand of Guitar Journalism
By Matanya Ophee
(more…)A Short (heavily edited) Autobiography
By Matanya Ophee
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