New 2013 edition, now available
Fernando Ferandiere's Arte de tocar la guitarra espanola (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.
We published a complete facsimile edition of it in 1977, it sold out, and here is a new 2013 edition of it. It includes a complete facsimile reprint of the Madrid 1799 edition,
a huge new introduction with loads of 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
16 x 23 cm (paperback size)
This book is published by Tecla Editions simultaneously with the first modern edition of Ferandiere's
Seis Duos for two guitars.
