Front cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of music examples -- The editors and the contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Great Vogue for the guitar -- Part I: Contexts -- 1. Eighteenth-century precedents: the role of Paris -- 2. The Great Vogue for the guitar: an overview -- 3. The instrument and its makers -- 4. Printing and publishing music for the guitar -- 5. Amateurs and professionals -- 6. Teaching and learning the guitar -- 7. Early-nineteenth-century guitars in the saleroom, private hands and public collections 8. Music for early-nineteenth-century guitars in the saleroom, private hands and public collections -- Part II: The repertoire and its composers -- 9. Accompanied song -- 10. Chamber music for the guitar -- 11. Ferdinando Carulli (1770-1841) -- 12. Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829) -- 13. Fernando Sor (1778-1839) -- 14. Dionisio Aguado (1784-1849) -- 15. Emilia Giuliani (1813-1850) -- 16. Giulio Regondi (1822/23-1872) and Catharina Pratten, née Pelzer (1824-1895) -- Appendix: A note on string-making -- Glossary of guitar terms -- Select bibliography -- Index The first book devoted to the composers, instrument makers and amateur players who advanced the great guitar vouge throughout Western Europe during the early decades of the nineteenth century | 
