External Resources

Transcription Resources

• IMSLP: More than 3,700 pieces and 1,400 arrangements for guitar.
• Delcamp.net: More than 3000 transcriptions, arrangements, reprints, and facsimiles.
• Richard Yates Classical Guitar Transcriptions: More than 300 transcriptions available from Richard Yates. Additional transcriptions by Yates available on IMSLP.
• Classical Guitar Music in Printed Collections: "Classical Guitar Music in Printed Collections is designed to be an online, continuously-updateable index to classical guitar repertoire in published collections and anthologies."
• Music for the Lute, Guitar, and Vihuela (1470-1899): "There are currently over 6,000 individual entries, comprising printed music, manuscript music, and pedagogical materials relating to plucked-string instruments. The list begins with manuscripts from as early as 1457 and continues well into the 19th century. Most of these sources were written for the lute or guitar; there were also a few books for lesser-known plucked string instruments: the vihuela, cittern, bandora, mandora, mandolin, and orpharion, as well as instruments related to the lute such as the archlute and theorbo. Most of the early sources on this site employ a notational system called "tablature." After around 1750, the sources use standard notation, including those calling for continuo accompaniment."
• The Lute Online Resources Portal (LORP): "[...]intended to help lute players, enthusiasts and researchers locate and use the rapidly growing online resources relating to the lute." The table of contents is available here. The Annotated Catalogue of Historical Lute Manuscripts is available here.
• The Guitar School: "The Guitar School offers over 3300 pages of sheet music by Eythor Thorlaksson for the classical guitar."

Guitar Resources

• International Guitar Research Centre (IGRC): "The International Guitar Research Centre (IGRC) is committed to the study and development of the guitar’s compositional, performance, analytical and technical activity across a range of geographical and stylistic domains. Now with a number of International partners across 6 continents (including the International Guitar Foundation, The Guitar Foundation of America, The Altamira Foundation in China, the 21st Century Guitar network in Canada), the IGRC has become a global hub of guitar research, co-hosting conferences and festivals in the USA, Hong Kong, China, Canada, Portugal, Germany, UK and Australia, providing a fertile network for its scholars and practitioners, and disseminating its work (through scores, recordings, performances, broadcasts, academic writing and pedagogical materials) to broad public and cultural impact. Through this pluralistic activity, the IGRC advances and enriches the diverse practice, culture and public engagement with this universal instrument."
• Classical Guitar: "On this blog, you’ll find tons of articles on practicing, performing, interpretation, and guitar technique."
• Digital Guitar Archive: "Digital Guitar Archive began as an outlet for the guitar research of Robert Coldwell. Publishing projects began under the name DGA Editions at the same time and there are now many books in print. The goal of the company is to evaluate all outlets for historical classical guitar research and develop projects for both print and online access."
  • The Digital Guitar Archive — Archive Search: "The Archive Search is a free tool offered by Digital Guitar Archive to search through collated publicly accessible material available from the following archives and libraries. Digital Guitar Archive does not host or provide copies of digital music files from these institutions. The Archive Search is a research utility designed to raise awareness of these historical documents and direct users to the institutions providing the information publicly. This tool is also a proof-of-concept for the future of music research showing a small sample of what would be capable with data-mining and digital imaging. As such, this will be an evolving tool incorporating new features over time."
• The Cambridge Consortium for Guitar Research: "The Cambridge Consortium for Guitar Research is a society of guitar players and scholars devoted to the musical history, the social history and the organology of all Western instruments called ‘guitars’, but with special emphasis on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It aims to increase public understanding of guitar history through original research and performance. Membership is by invitation."

Free Music Scholarship Resources

• Open Music Theory: "Open Music Theory is a natively-online open educational resource intended to serve as the primary text and workbook for undergraduate music theory curricula. OMT2 provides not only the material for a complete traditional core undergraduate music theory sequence (fundamentals, diatonic harmony, chromatic harmony, form, 20th-century techniques), but also several other units for instructors who have diversified their curriculum, such as jazz, popular music, counterpoint, and orchestration."
• Open Access Musicology: "Open Access Musicology (OAM) publishes peer-reviewed, scholarly essays primarily intended to serve students and teachers of music history, ethno/musicology, and music studies. The constantly evolving collection ensures that recent research and scholarship inspires classroom practice, provides diverse and methodologically transparent models for student research, and introduces different modes of inquiry to inspire classroom discussion and varied assignments."
• A Directory of Digital Scholarship in Music: "On this website, you can browse or search an open-source bibliography of specialized digital resources and born-digital scholarship in music. Here you may tour the world of digital humanities in music, loosely interpreted. The entries in this directory were compiled over a period of three years: 2018-2021."
• Soundboard Scholar: "Soundboard Scholar is the peer-reviewed journal of the Guitar Foundation of America. Its purpose is to publish guitar research of the highest caliber. Soundboard Scholar provides a forum for all fields of guitar scholarship, including historical research, historiography, music analysis, performance studies, and pedagogy. Especially welcome are articles that connect the guitar world with current trends in mainstream musical scholarship or that connect non-specialists to the knowledge and insights that scholarly inquiry has to offer."
• Lexique musical de la Renaissance:"For people working on Early Music (musicians, scholars, amateurs), one important question often arises: what is the real sense of terms associated with music? Since we do not have any exact definition of these terms, we usually use analogies, or our own intuition, or we just choose the easy option and use modern equivalents. But ambiguities are far too frequent to allow us to understand the subtle meaning of some concepts: what does “harmony”, “consonance”, “counterpoint” or “tiento” mean before 1650? LMR was created to answer these and other questions, with its main objective being to place every term within a clear context in which it makes sense."

Personal Websites and Blogs

• James Hepokoski Archive: An open access archive of the writing and teaching of James Hepokoski.
• Joseph Straus: Personal website of the music theorist Joseph N. Straus. The website contains analytical videos, podcasts, and advice for graduate students in music theory.
• Ian Pace: "The Blog of Ian Pace, pianist, musicologist, political animal. A place for thoughts, reflections, links, both trivial and not so trivial."
• The Rambler: "A blog about contemporary music, by author and critic Tim Rutherford-Johnson."

Podcasts and Interviews

• Classical Guitar Corner: "The Classical Guitar Corner Podcast has been entertaining guitarist around the world for over a decade. Episodes range from lessons, to interviews, repertoire analysis, and recording reviews. The host, Simon Powis, has interviewed a wide range of guitarists including John Williams, David Russell, Oscar Ghilia, and Alvaro Pierri. Enjoy more that 100 episodes in the podcast archives."
• Classical Guitar Insider: "Candid conversations with the musicians, journalists, and luthiers who are the fabric of the classical guitar universe."