My thanks to all who have responded so quickly & helpfully. Looks like I will be in touch with the Villa-Lobos Museum very soon.
Dan http://www.villalobos.ca/node/1217 and http://www.stanleyyates.com/articles/hvl/hvl.html will surely be of interest to you. Concerning the preludes and the suite, there are new editions based on all the sources by Zigante. >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.... > >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 > >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
