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Not much biographical information exists about Italian guitarist/composer Enea Gardana. Wikipedia places his birth around the mid 19th century, leaving us around 38 works for the guitar. His works include arrangements, reductions and transcriptions, plus short composed dance pieces. Some of his works were written for (strangely enough) 9-string guitar. A complete list of known works can be found at the bottom of the page.
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Pieces
This short volume contains five transcriptions of works by three great composers of classical music - Schumann, Bach and Gonoud. The most well-known piece in the book is Bach's Prelude in C Major from the Well Tempered Clavier book 1. All of the transcriptions are wonderfully adapted for the guitar and would be a decent challenge for an intermediate-advanced level guitarist - I don't think Gardana was aiming at amateurs!
Here is a list of the pieces found in this book:
Prelude
Here is a list of the pieces found in this book:
Prelude
Table of Equisonants
The following table is extremely valuable and something I've never come across before in any other method book. It's a table that shows all of the notes on the guitar, but it tells you where the same sounding notes are located in different places on the fretboard. So if you want to know all the various ways to play an E (the pitch equivalent to the first open string), then you can quickly locate them all by using this chart.
Intervals
This section of the book is extremely useful. Here, Aguado shows you the fingerings for each common interval. Each interval has a fingering pattern that can be repeated up and down the fretboard and/or across the fretboard.
Lessons
The remainder of the method contains short lessons that have specific purposes, including positions, fingerings. ornaments, harmonics and barring. Each lesson contains a very detailed description of what the pupil ought to work on. Below is the first lesson found in the method.
