Soundboard Scholar is the peer-reviewed journal of the Guitar Foundation of America. Its purpose is to publish guitar research of the highest caliber. Soundboard Scholar provides a forum for all fields of guitar scholarship, including historical research, historiography, music analysis, performance studies, and pedagogy. Especially welcome are articles that connect the guitar world with current trends in mainstream musical scholarship or that connect non-specialists to the knowledge and insights that scholarly inquiry has to offer.
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Front Matter
Editor's Letter
Jonathan Leathwood
An Online, Open-Access Journal
Jonathan Leathwood
By Invitation
Olga Praguer Coelho, Ambassador of Brazilian Folksong
Marcia E. Taborda
The Guitar Fretboard Deep-Dive
Milton Mermikides
Diamonds, Abaci, and Hexagrams: Exploring the Pitch Surface of the Guitar Fretboard
Milton Mermikides
The Guitar and the Musical Canon (Webinar)
Stephen Goss, Kathy Acosta Zavala, Lorenzo Micheli, Michael O'Toole, and Christopher Page
Articles
Luigi Legnani's Missing Opus 9
Robert Coldwell
English and Russian Guitars in Poland: A Summary of Sources Using Open-G Tuning, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day
Wojciech Gurgul
“An Attractive and Varied Repertoire”: Full-Data List
Christopher Page
“An Attractive and Varied Repertoire”: The Guitar Revival of 1860–1900 and Victorian Song
Christopher Page
Guitar Thinking
Jonathan De Souza
Translation Series
Joaquín Rodrigo and Julian Bream: Aspects of a Relationship
Javier Suárez-Pajares
Issues in Transcribing German Lute Tablature
Kurt Dorfmüller
The Flight of the Maiden: Representations of Women and the Guitar in Brazilian Culture
Cláudia Araújo Garcia
From the Soundboard Archive
Rudolph Süss’s Lyrische Suite no. 1, op. 23
Matanya Ophee
Athénaïs Paulian’s Airs and Variations, op. 1
Matanya Ophee
Elsa Just’s Ständchen for Guitar Trio
Matanya Ophee
Rudolph Süss’s Lyrische Suite no. 2, op. 24
Matanya Ophee
J.N. Bobrowicz’s Grand Polonaise, op. 24
Matanya Ophee
In Memoriam
Gilbert Biberian (1944–2023): The Exuberant Heart
Ricardo Iznaola
Carlo Barone (1955–2022)
Adrian Walter
Remembering Tom Heck and His Legacy
Robert Ferguson
Julian Bream (1933–2020)
Fábio Zanon
Print Reviews
The Catalan Guitar, Part 1: Four New E-books by Brian Jeffery and Josep María Mangado
Richard M. Long
Media Reviews
Le donne e la chitarra, James Akers, romantic guitar
Ellwood Colahan
Ars Longa (Kenny)
Jocelyn Nelson
Archetypes (Sérgio Assad, Clarice Assad, Third Coast Percussion)
Nathan Cornelius
A Tribute to Vladimir Morkov (The Czar’s Guitars)
Ellwood Colahan
Guitar Double Concertos: Works by Puerto, García Abril & López de Guereña (Trápaga et al.)
Diogo Alvarez
Letters
New Information on Sor and Gil Blas
Erik Stenstadvold
Thank You, Richard — and Yes, She Did!
Brian Jeffery
News
Milton Mermikides Appointed as Gresham Professor of Music
Jonathan Leathwood