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Sor | 24 Progressive Lessons, Op. 31 for solo guitar
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*This title is one of 62 guitar solos by Fernando Sor available individually as a PDF download.
Sor’s 24 progressive lessons for the guitar, op. 31, were first published in Paris in 1828. The full title of the original edition is Vingt quatre leçons progressives pour la guitare, doigtées avec soin, dediées aux élèves commençants (‘24 progressive lessons, carefully fingered, dedicated to beginning pupils’).
The lesson op. 31 no. 3 is FREE TO EVERYBODY.
In this work, a mere year after the publication of his studies op. 29 in 1827, Sor radically changed his approach to the writing of instructional music for the guitar. Whereas in his op. 6 and op. 29 he had assumed that the basic level of playing had already been attained, and had devoted himself to writing pieces at a moderately advanced level whose aim was to improve certain technical aspects of guitar-playing, now in this op. 31 he is writing specifically, to quote the title-page, for “les élèves commençants” (beginning pupils). To emphasize the difference, he calls the pieces of op. 31 “Leçons” rather than “Etudes”, a distinction which he repeats in the text of his Méthode pour la Guitare of 1830. From being primarily a virtuoso performer, he has become a teacher. His method is a thoughtful work, and his instructional music from now on is among the finest and most melodious of all easy music ever written for the guitar.
This edition comes from Sor’s New Complete Works for Guitar edited by Brian Jeffery.
Paperbound books are also available separately for worldwide shipment, either as individual volumes or as the complete eleven volume set:
Volume 1: guitar solos op. nos. 1 through 9 (contains Op. 6)
Volume 2: guitar solos op. nos. 10 through 16 and works without opus number
Volume 3: guitar solos op. nos. 17 through 25
Volume 4: guitar solos op. nos. 26 through 32
Volume 5: guitar solos op. nos. 33 through 43
Volume 6: guitar solos op. nos. 44 through 52
Volume 7: guitar solos op. nos. 54 through 60 and appendix: Meditación
Volume 8: seven guitar duets in score, op. nos. 34 to 53
Volume 9: six guitar duets in score, op. nos. 54 bis to 63 and the Bolero a Duo
Volume 10: the Guitar 1 parts for all of the thirteen duets
Volume 11: the Guitar 2 parts for all of the thirteen duets
All 11 Volumes: the 11 volume set
