Articles

Online Articles

Bach's Unaccompanied String Music: A New (Historical) Approach to Stylistic and Idiomatic Transcription for the Guitar

The Guitar Music of Heitor Villa-Lobos: Alternate Sources and Implications for Performance

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About...CROSS-STRING ORNAMENTATION

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About...ALBENIZ'S LEYENDA (Preludio-Asturias)

Tárrega's Recuerdos de la Alhambra: a New Edition

Fernando Sor - Second Sonata for Guitar (op. 15b)

Interview with Stanley Yates by Hajo Dezelski (in German)

I intend to add more articles, as my schedule permits. Please come back!

Published Articles

Master Workshop: "Dallas Rag," Fingerstyle Magazine (No. 48 Feb/Mar 2003, 50-52).

APSU Program Profile, Teaching Guitar. TGN 7, 2002, pp. 5-12.

"Practicing Cross-String Ornaments," Fingerstyle Magazine (No. 45 Feb/Mar 2002, 29-31).

 “Heitor Villa Lobos Valsa Concerto No. 2, Op. 8 (1904): Rediscovery and Completion of an Early Solo Guitar Work,” Soundboard: Journal of the Guitar Foundation of America (Spring, 1999, XXV, no. 4, 7-10).

Also in Japanese in Gendai Guitar, Tokyo (vol.33, No.4, April 1999, 40-43).

In German as “Heitor Villa-Lobos' Vals Concerto N° 2, Entdeckung und Rekonstruktion eines frühen Werks für Gitarre Solo”Gitarre und Laute (vol. 3, 1999, 55-65).

 In Italian as “Valsa Concerto n. 2 op. 8 di Heitor Villa Lobos. Riscoperta di un’opera giovanile per chitarra sola. Il Fromino (no. 107, July 1999, 16-19).

 “Bach’s Unaccompanied String Music: A New (Old) Approach to Stylistic and Idiomatic Arrangement for the Guitar.” Classical Guitar Magazine, England (four installments: Nov. 1998, vol. 17, no. 3, 24-9; Dec. 1998, vol. 17, no. 4, 20-2; Jan.1999, vol. 17, no. 5, 20-6 and Feb. 1999, vol. 17, no. 6).

Also in Spanish as, "La música de Bach para cuerda sin acompañamiento: Un nuevo (viejo) enfoque idiomático y estilíistico de las transcripciones para guitarrra." 8 Sonoro, Seville (September, 1999, III, no. 5, 43-8).

“Angelo Gilardino: 6 Concerti di transcendeza,” Soundboard: Journal of the Guitar Foundation of America (Winter, 1999, XXV, No. 3, 85-86).

"Ernest Shand's Premier Concerto Pour Guitare, Op. 48." Soundboard: Journal of the Guitar Foundation of America (Winter, 1998, XXIV, No. 3, pp. 9-17).

Also in Classical Guitar, England (Spring, 1999)

"Villa-Lobos Guitar Music: Alternate Sources and Implications for Performance. Soundboard: Journal of the Guitar Foundation of America (Summer 1997, XXIV, No. 1, pp. 7-20).

 Also in German as "Die Musik von Heitor Villa-Lobos, Alternative Quellen und Aufführungspraxis." Gitarre & Laute, Germany (vol. xix, no. 6, 1997, pp. 55-65).

"Bach's Unaccompanied Cello Music: An Approach to Stylistic and Idiomatic Transcription for the Modern Guitar." Soundboard: Journal of the Guitar Foundation of America (Winter 1996, XXII, No. 3, pp. 9-23).

Contributions to larger works

"The Guitar Sonatas of Fernando Sor: Style and Form," Sor Studies, ed. Luis Gasser. 2 vols. (Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales, Universidad Complutense, Madrid), 2003.