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
The Guitar Music Collection of Justin Holland
Robert Coldwell
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
Translation Series
Narciso Yepes and the Composers of His Time
Belén Pérez Castillo
Joaquín Rodrigo and Julian Bream: Aspects of a Relationship
Javier Suárez-Pajares
Issues in Transcribing German Lute Tablature
Kurt Dorfmüller
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
Dowlandia: Leafing through Grapes’s New Research Guide
Katharyn R. Benessa
New Light on Sagrini
Richard M. Long
The Catalan Guitar, Part 1: Four New E-books by Brian Jeffery and Josep María Mangado
Richard M. Long
Media Reviews
French Music by an Italian Count: A Survey of Selected Recordings of Ludovico Roncalli
Ellwood Colahan
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
Letters
The Source of Luigi Sagrini's "Thême de Racio Calupo"
Robert Coldwell
New Information on Sor and Gil Blas
Erik Stenstadvold
Thank You, Richard — and Yes, She Did!
Brian Jeffery