Often, the fingerings in printed music are those created by the editor or, in some cases a well known performer and may not necessarily be appropriate for the player at their stage of musical and technical development. This in itself is challenging but is also useful because it allows the player to be imaginative with their fingering by creating appropriate sonorities from the different strings.
The guitar is an instrument where one can play the same note in several different places. To encourage more collaborative work with singers and other instrumentalists.To encourage a more proactive approach with the written musical text.To encourage players to add their own marks of expression, which will encourage a positive approach to interpretation.To encourage players to ‘read the notes’ and know the score more securely.To encourage the player to add, where necessary, their own fingerings that will ultimately help their performance at those moments where the correct choice ofa fingering is critical.To de-clutter the score and make the musical text more visible.To make these scores similar to those of other instruments.I have purposely put all of this information to one side in each of the scores on offer for a variety of reasons: It can affect the player’s sight reading, which, of course, is the key to accessing a wider range of music. This burdensome clutter often gets in the way of the actual musical text encouraging players to ‘play the fingerings’ rather than the notes. Guitar musical text is often dominated by symbols that denote choice of string, left hand fingering, position, Barre chords etc as well as the normal marks of expression. O cessate di piagarmi, O lasciatemi morir Luci ingrate, Dispietate, Più del gelo e più dei marmi. NOTE ON THE TRANSCRIPTIONS, REALISATIONS AND ARRANGEMENTS