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This volume is a collection of exercises, lessons and etudes extracted
from the second edition of Dionisio Aguado’s Escuela of 1826. Stripping
this guitar method from all of its text, creates a carefully graduated
system of teaching which is similar in its construction to the later,
much later, Bartók’s Mikrokosmos. As Bartók stated in his preface to his
monumental pedagogical edifice, teachers do not need to be told how to
teach. They already know. They need good material to work with. The
present volume is using all the teaching musical matter of the original
source. The lessons, exercises and etudes from this method range
progressively all the way from a single line melody on the bass strings
to multi--page concert etudes that deserve to be on the program of the
most demanding virtuosi. The first 22 lessons are meant to be played by
the right-hand thumb only. They are designed to teach basic sight
reading in the first position, using a gradual progression of rhythmic
patterns. The emphasis is on a correct maintenance of the duration of
each note or rest. Chords are introduced in lessons 23-32. Arpeggio
patterns are introduced in Lesson 34 using the chords of the previous
lesson. The imaginative teacher will quickly understand that the
arpeggio studies develop in a logical sequence that allows them to be
grouped as pseudo themes and variations (for example Lessons 40-41) that
can also be played as a duo, or as class instruction material. Lesson
50 opens the way for polyphony instruction, beginning with simple
two-voice textures, gradually increasing in complexity, until Lesson 71
in which a three-voice texture is introduced. With few exceptions, the
music remains in the first position until Lessons 88-89 where the
concept of equivalent pitches is introduced. From that point on, the
music becomes gradually more technically demanding and covering the
entire fingerboard up to fret XII and beyond. The 14 Exercises and the
30 Etudes that follow are given here with full fingering. This
collection can be useful in any program of guitar education, regardless
of the teacher’s approach to pedagogy or his/her attachment to any
particular philosophy. I am honored to present this valuable tool of the
teaching trade to twenty-first century guitar teachers, a tool that was
imagined by Dionisio Aguado at the early nineteenth century. Matanya
Ophee.
Orphée
EO 190
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