Description

New 2013 edition

Fernando Ferandiere’s Arte de tocar la guitarra española (Madrid, 1799) is an interesting and enthusiastic book about the guitar, with some music in an appendix. It is a significant text in guitar history.

It includes a complete facsimile reprint of the Madrid 1799 edition, new introduction with new informationa by Brian Jeffery both in English and in Spanish, a complete English translation of Ferandiere’s text, and the music examples given additionally in modern notation.

The new 2013 introduction of forty pages brings our knowledge about this interesting writer and composer up to date and adds some information not otherwise available.

181 pages