The Classical Guitar Companion

Christopher Berg received his training at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, in master classes with Andrés Segovia at the University of Southern California. He is a Carolina Distinguished Professor University of South Carolina where he directs the classical guitar program. He has been honored by the National Endowment for the Arts as a recipient of a Solo Recitalist Fellowship and by the South Carolina Arts Commission as a recipient of two Solo Artist Fellowships. He is the author of Mastering Guitar Technique, Giuliani Revisited, and Music Practice Past & Present: Historic Virtuosi on Practicing by Design.

Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Examples
Preface
Acknowledgments
Editorial Method
Introduction

1. Learning the Fingerboard
Fingering Notations and Conventions
Scales and Cadences
Open Position Scales and Lower Position Cadences
Bursts and Exercises for Change of Direction
Moveable Scale Forms and Associated Cadences
Long Scales
Beginning Fingerboard Harmony
Triads on the Top Three Strings
Triad Cycles
Scales in Triads
Triads on the Lower Strings
Triad Progressions
Cadences by Franz Bathioli
2. Scale Exercises and Studies
Fingering Considerations
Carulli's Right-Hand Fingering Practices
Carcassi's Right-Hand Fingering Practices
Giuliani's Right-Hand Fingering Practices
Sor's Right-Hand Fingering Practices
Aguado's Right-Hand Fingering Practices
Coste's Right-Hand Fingering Practices
Mertz's Right-Hand Fingering Practices
Triplets
Scale Exercises and Etudes in Lower Positions
Three Lower Position Scale Exercises with Thumb Accompaniment
Three Scale Exercises from the Carulli method
Attaingnant: Two Haulberroys
Giuliani: Op. 1, Part 3, No. 3
Tárrega: scale exercise in D
Besard: Branle Gay
Mertel: Prelude 8
Dlugorai: Finale (Thesaurus Harmonicus, 1603)
LeRoy: Passemeze and plus diminuée (1568)
Scale Exercises and Etudes in Upper Positions
Three Upper Position Scale Exercises with Thumb Accompaniment
Aguado: Nuevo Método para Guitarra, Study No. 16
Carcassi: Op. 60, No. 1
Carcassi: Op. 60, No. 14
Tárrega: diminished chord exercises
Tárrega: Prelude 9
Tárrega: scale exercises
Tárrega: Estudio en Forma de Minuetto
anon: Chi Passa (Marsh Lute Book, c. 1595)
Johnson: The Queen's Treble
Dalza: Piva for Two Lutes
Advanced Right-Hand Scale Fingering
Application
Other Applications
3. Repeated Notes
Overview
Repeated Note Exercises and Studies
Horetsky: Op. 15, No. 7
Aguado: Nuevo Método de Guitarra, Op. 6, Exercise 10
Carcassi: Op. 60, No. 2
Sor: Op. 6, No. 4
Sor: Op. 35, No. 19
Aguado: Nuevo Método para Guitarra, Section Three, Study No. 23
Carcassi: Op. 60, No. 7
Giuliani: Op. 83, No. 3 (Antoine de l'Hoyer: Op. 27, No. 4)
Sor: Op. 31, No. 19
4. Slurs
Overview
Slur Exercises and Etudes
Carulli: Prélude from Method, Op. 27
Carcassi: Exercise from Method, Op. 59
Carulli: Andante from Method, Op. 27
Carcassi: Andante from Method, Op. 59
Carcassi: Op. 60, No. 8
Carcassi: Op. 60, No. 4
Slur Exercises from Horetsky's Op. 33
Horetsky: Op. 15, No. 24
Giuliani, Op. 48, No. 4
Sor: Op. 6, No. 3
Carcassi: Op. 60, No. 9
Giuliani: Op. 100, No. 19
Giuliani: Op. 48, No. 9
Advanced Slur Exercises
Virtuoso Slur Exercises
5. Harmony
Overview
Studies
Aguado: Nuevo Método para Guitarra, Section Two, Chapter One, Exercise 12
Carcassi: Study in Damping from Method, Op. 59
Sor: Op. 35, No. 11
Sor: Op. 31, No. 22
Tárrega: Prelude 8
Sor: Op. 31, No. 20
Tárrega: Prelude 12
Sor: Op. 35, No. 16
Sor: Op. 29, No. 13
Sor: Op. 29, No. 23
Tárrega: Prelude 4
Advanced Left-Hand Exercises
What Guitar Methods Say
Musical Implications
Applications
6. Arpeggios
Overview
Arpeggio Studies
Carulli: Moderato from Method, Op. 27
Aguado: Nuevo Método de Guitarra, Op. 6, Part Two, Exercise 6
Sor: Op. 31, No. 6
Aguado: Nuevo Método para Guitarra, Section 2, Exercise 2
Aguado: Nuevo Método para Guitarra, Section 3, Study 5
Aguado: Colección de Estudios, Study 3
Aguado: Nuevo Método para Guitarra, Section 2, Exercise 16
Aguado: Nuevo Método para Guitarra, Section 2, Exercise 17
Aguado: Nuevo Método para Guitarra, Section 2, Exercise 20
Aguado: Colección de Estudios, Study 5
Sor: Op. 35, No. 9
Giuliani: Op. 48, No. 2
Aguado: Nuevo Método de Guitarra, Section Two, Exercise 10
Giuliani: Op. 48, No. 5
Giuliani: Op. 48, No. 6
Aguado: Nuevo Método para Guitarra, Section 3, Study 8
Giuliani: Op. 48, No. 3
Sor: Op. 35, No. 23
Sor: Op. 31, No. 12
7. Melody and Accompaniment
Overview
Chordal Textures
Sor: Op. 31, No. 23
Melody Above an Alberti Bass
Horetsky: Op. 15, No. 2
Giuliani's Fingering Examples
Sor: Op. 35, No. 13
Melody in an Arpeggiated Texture
Sor: Op. 35, No. 22
Sor: Op. 6, No. 11
Simple Melody
Tárrega: Endecha
8. Counterpoint
Overview
Contrapuntal Pieces and Studies
Valderrabano: Duo Pleni Sunt
Giuliani: Op. 139, No. 4
Zani de Ferranti: Caprice, Op. 11, No. 1
Aguado: Nuevo Método para Guitarra, Lesson 38
Aguado: Nuevo Método para Guitarra, Lesson 39
Aguado: Nuevo Método para Guitarra, Lesson 40
Sor: Op. 31, No. 4
Carcassi: Op. 60, No. 6
Sor: Op. 6, No. 8
Giovanni Maria da Crema: Recercar Tredecimo
Four Fantasias by Francesco da Milano
Francesco da Milano: Fantasia 28
Francesco da Milano: Fantasia 40
Francesco da Milano: Fantasia 38
Francesco da Milano: Fantasia 34
9. Florid/Virtuoso Etudes
Overview
Virtuosity Is Not Everyday Life
Carcassi: Op. 60, No. 20
Tárrega: La Mariposa
Tárrega: Study in A
Tárrega: Estudio de Velocidad
10. What Next?

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