Table of Contents

Foreword - Richard Savino
Introduction - Christopher Page, Paul Sparks and James Westbrook
Eighteenth-century precedents: the role of Paris - Damián Martín Gil and Erik Stenstadvold
The Great Vogue for the guitar: an overview - Christopher Page
The instrument and its makers - James Westbrook
Printing and publishing music for the guitar with Appendix: Matteo Carcassi - Erik Stenstadvold
Amateurs and professionals - Christopher Page
Teaching and learning the guitar - Erik Stenstadvold
Early-nineteenth-century guitars in the saleroom, private hands and public collections - James Westbrook
Music for early-nineteenth-century guitars in the saleroom, private hands and public collections - Kenneth Sparr
Accompanied song - Jelma van Amersfoort
Chamber music for the guitar - Jukka Savijoki
Ferdinando Carulli (1770-1841) - Mario Torta
Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829) - Gerhard Penn
Fernando Sor (1778-1839) - Erik Stenstadvold
Dionisio Aguado (1784-1849) - Luis Briso de Montiano
Emilia Giuliani (1813-1850) - Nicoletta Confalone
Giulio Regondi (1822/23-1872) and Catharina Pratten née Pelzer (1824-1895) - Sarah Clarke
Appendix: A note on string-making - Jenny Nex
Bibliography

About the Author

CHRISTOPHER PAGE is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Academia Europaea, Emeritus Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and from October 2014 until May 2018 was Gresham Professor of Music at Gresham College, London (founded 1597). An Emeritus Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, he holds the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association awarded for outstanding services to musicology. PAUL SPARKS is a British guitarist, mandolinist, and author of three books for Oxford University Press: The Early Mandolin (1989, with James Tyler), The Classical Mandolin (1995), and The Guitar and its Music (2002, with Tyler). He has also published two articles in Early Music: 'Clara Ross, Mabel Downing and Ladies' Guitar and Mandolin Bands in late Victorian Britain' (2013), and 'The Mandolin in Britain, 1750-1800' (2018). He has also been a writer and/or producer for many BBC television music documentaries. JAMES WESTBROOK is a British-based organologist whose particular interest is in guitar construction. He is the author of several illustrated books on history of the acoustic guitar. He is currently a member of the Research staff at the University of Cambridge Music Faculty, and he holds a Research Fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge. CHRISTOPHER PAGE is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Academia Europaea, Emeritus Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and from October 2014 until May 2018 was Gresham Professor of Music at Gresham College, London (founded 1597). An Emeritus Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, he holds the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association awarded for outstanding services to musicology. PAUL SPARKS is a British guitarist, mandolinist, and author of three books for Oxford University Press: The Early Mandolin (1989, with James Tyler), The Classical Mandolin (1995), and The Guitar and its Music (2002, with Tyler). He has also published two articles in Early Music: 'Clara Ross, Mabel Downing and Ladies' Guitar and Mandolin Bands in late Victorian Britain' (2013), and 'The Mandolin in Britain, 1750-1800' (2018). He has also been a writer and/or producer for many BBC television music documentaries. JAMES WESTBROOK is a British-based organologist whose particular interest is in guitar construction. He is the author of several illustrated books on history of the acoustic guitar. He is currently a member of the Research staff at the University of Cambridge Music Faculty, and he holds a Research Fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge. SARAH CLARKE's research interests centre on the guitar in nineteenth-century England. She has a PhD in music from the Open University. In 2018 she was awarded the Andrew Britton Fellowship by the Cambridge Consortium for Guitar Research and has since been elected a member. She contributed a chapter to 'The Great Vogue for the Guitar in Western Europe 1800-1840' ed. by Christopher Page, Paul Sparks, and James Westbrook, 2023.