Toward a British Guitar Canon: Ernest Shand’s Collected Works

Authors

Declan HickeyFollow

Keywords

Ernest Shand, British guitar, Late Victorian England, guitar canon, performance practice, Philharmonic Society of Guitarists, plucked strings, periodicals, Julian Bream

Abstract

A review of Guitar Music from Late Victorian England: Collected Works, by Ernest Shand, edited by Stanley Yates (Classical Guitar Study Editions, 2022), publisher's website.

Updates

This article was corrected on January 7, 2026. A missing footnote was inserted on p. 4 (n11) regarding Shand's instruments, and the final paragraph was revised by the author.

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.56902/SBS.2025.10.13

Recommended Citation

Hickey, Declan. “Toward a British Guitar Canon: Ernest Shand’s Collected Works.” Review of Guitar Music from Late Victorian England: Collected Works, by Ernest Shand, edited by Stanley Yates. Soundboard Scholar 10 (2025). https://doi.org/10.56902/SBS.2025.10.13.