Fernando Sor: The Complete Studies, Lessons, and Exercises for guitar. The standard edition of these famous pieces. Brian Jeffery's edition. A Tecla publication.

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See a sample study:
op. 6 no. 8 (pdf, 57k)

Sor: The Sixteen Easiest Pieces for guitar, for complete beginners. New publication. This contains the really easy pieces (for example ALL the Sor pieces in the old and the new Associated Board syllabuses for Grades 1 and 2)

More about Fernando Sor (1778-1839), and more titles by him

Giuliani- The Complete Studies for guitar. A companion volume to the Complete Studies of Sor. New September 2002.

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A nuestros amigos en España y Latinoamerica

Acabamos de poner en el sitio web de Tecla, en español (castellano), la introducción de este libro. Así está la edición más fácil a utilizar para los en España y Latinoamerica que toquen esta bella música.

La traducción es del guitarrista Carlos Pérez, de Chile, al que la agradecemos mucho.

Fernando Sor:

The Complete Studies, Lessons, and Exercises for guitar

edited by Brian Jeffery

This book contains all Sor’s famous studies, lessons, and exercises for guitar complete in one book (opus numbers 6, 29, 31, 35, 44, and 60, complete), at a low price specially for students. It includes all the well-known twenty studies which Andrés Segovia edited (see table of concordance with Segovia's twenty studies), and all the studies, lessons, and exercises by Sor which are now prescribed by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in their current guitar syllabus (2009 and 2010), but every piece is now newly edited by Brian Jeffery directly from the original editions.

With Sor's own detailed comments on several of the pieces, and with only Sor's fingering, no modern fingering. 140 pages.

JANUARY 2008 because of demand, we have reprinted this popular book yet again.

Paperbound TECLA 0101
Price 18.00 euros / or 13.95 UK pounds / or 25.00 US dollars
ISBN 978-0-948607-31-8

Clothbound in handsome new black and gold TECLA 0102
Price 26.00 euros / or 21.00 UK pounds / or 37.00 US dollars
ISBN 978-0-948607-32-5

First published 1993, reprinted 1996 in a new version including Sor's op. 44 which was not present in the first edition, reprinted 2003 with a new thematic index, reprinted 2008.
This definitive modern edition of Sor's studies is the one which was originally chosen by the official selectors of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, and is currently listed by them in their guitar syllabus. It is particularly recommended for use by students.

"It is to Jeffery’s eternal credit that he has produced a publication which maintains the highest editorial standards and breaks some new ground ... it is without hesitation that I recommend this latest offering from a first-rate specialist publisher" (Classical Guitar).

"This is a very fine book" (Soundboard, 1997).
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MORE ABOUT THIS BOOK
See the well-known study op. 6 no. 8 as a pdf file.

You can consult the thematic index if you like (pdf files) for the whole collection:
Index to op. 6 and op. 29
Index to op. 31
Index to op. 35
Index to op. 44
Index to op. 60
The edition is Urtext and contains all the pieces in one book. It scrupulously takes into account the many textual problems which the original editions presented, in order to make this both a reliable edition for study and a thoroughly practical one for concert performance. A particular feature of this edition is that there are commentaries on the individual pieces based on Sor’s own ideas and intentions as expressed in his Method, with many quotations which are directly relevant to individual studies. It is an established major standard edition for teachers and students, and is available at a price accessible to students.

This is a fully authentic edition as far as fingering is concerned, in that the only fingering given is Sor's own (very practical, it may be said). No modern fingering is added as it is in other editions.
[June 2002] In 1994 I wrote an article on the terminology of some of Sor's original titles: Studio (op. 6), Études (op. 29), Exercises (op. 35), and of Giuliani's Studio (op. 1), etc. The article was published in the EGTA Journal and is available here.

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