The 1928 manuscript for the 12 Studies is available from the Villa-Lobos Museum.
The 1928 version is heavily fingered by VL and has many details and some sections that are missing from the later Eschig version. ( For example Etude 10 has a couple of extra minutes of entirely new music not fund in the Eschig) Eschig plans to publish a new critical edition based on the manuscript but it has been a long time comin' It has already done so with the preludes and the suite populaire (which BTW has a newly found movement) Many guitarists are now playing from the 1928 version and the manuscripts are circulating.... -----Original Message----- From: Mayes, Joseph <[email protected]> To: Daniel Winheld <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Nov 7, 2010 6:49 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: OT: Guitar technique Hi Dan The HVL collected edition corrects the obvious note mistakes, but leaves the ambiguous (at best) harmonics notation and the original fingering - which is sparse, to say the least, and often wrong. Best Regards, Joseph Mayes ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Winheld [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 5:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LUTE] OT: Guitar technique A question for the players of standard modern classical guitar on this list (I am on no other)- I have not played classical guitar (nor owned one) since 1975, so don't even know what e-list, forum or whatever to consult. Can any of you tell me if there are editions of the collected guitar works of Villa-Lobos that give detailed, explicit L.H. fingerings beyond the few hints that Villa-Lobos himself provided? Specifically, some of the Etudes have passages that are ambiguous to me (Etude #2 especially), and it's been a hell of a long time since I played this stuff. Some of them I never attempted. I started playing the Etude #1 by Heitor Villa-Lobos about six weeks ago for extra practice in thumb-under technique on my new 8 course lute. (One can run the right hand pattern with any chord, chord progression, or just open strings for practice, of course). I Have been captivated completely by this exotic (to me) Brazilian classical/pop &"Jungle" music- it's very nice vacation from all the usual repertoires, and so much accessible on the familiar instrument. Thanks for any help- Dan -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html --
