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Gaspar Sanz. The Complete Guitar Works: a Transcription and Translation of the Complete Music and Text in Sanz''s Instruccion de musica sobre la guitarra espanola (Zaragoza, 1674/5 & 1697).

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Transcribed and edited for classical guitar by Robert Strizich. Saint-Nicolas, Quebec: Les Editions Doberman-Yppan, c1999. [Frontispiece, 1 p.; editor's note, acknowledgments, pref., p. 2-13; suggestions for interpretation, p. 14-15; facsim. reprod. of title page, p. 16; transcription, p. 17-156; editorial modifications to the music, p. 157-69. Cloth-bound spiral. ISBN 2-89503-030-8; DO 250. $69.50.]

Handsomely and legibly printed in a large format, and hardbound with a square spine, this new transcription of the complete guitar works of Gaspar Sanz has much to recommend it, Robert Strizicb, the volume's editor, is an authority on Sanz and on this type of baroque guitar repertory and is the author of the Sanz entry in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. in the works list of that entry is a reference to this very edition as "forthcoming," and some twenty years later the author has made good on that promise (although curiously, no mention of this edition, in progress or complete, appears in Strizich's Sanz article for the second edition of the dictionary published in 2001). Today's classical guitarists should be pleased with Strizich's thoughtful and musically coherent adaptation of Sanz's baroque guitar tablatures for six-string guitar, even if musicologists may still be left wondering about some minor oversights in a generally excellent scholarly...

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