文档介绍：Heitor Villa-Lobos
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Doze Estudos para Violão
edited by C. Nelson
The Guitar Studies of Heitor Villa-Lobos
These twelve studies are copied from Editions Max Eschig . 9333 © 1953. By virtue of their
being copyrighted and also easily available from the publishers there seems little point in creating a new
edition such as this. The reason that I did so, however, is that the Eschig editions, which probably came
more or less directly from the hand of Villa-Lobos himself, contain almost no fingering indications. The
material, while not particularly difficult, does range all over the guitar fingerboard in such a way as to
make it very challenging to play on sight. The best fingering is not always obvious in these pieces. Even
if one makes the considerable effort required to work it out, the result is likely to be a very messy copy of
one’s music.
The fingering I have added is that which I feel to be useful to a broad range of guitarists, leaving out
only very natural or not particularly important usage for the left hand and providing at least some
indication of that for the right hand.
An additional factor which led me to copy these studies is that of certain conventions followed in the
original editions. One of these is the very frequent appearance of unnecessary sharps, flats and naturals.
This can be disorienting. The usage of “courtesy” accidentals is unnecessary if one follows the usual rules
of key signature and employment of accidentals. Where courtesy accidentals do appear warranted, they
may best be enclosed in parentheses to eliminate possible confusion. I have removed redundant
accidentals except in a very few cases and have parenthesized the exceptions.
Another convention, sufficiently confusing to ment on it to appear in both introductions and
appendices to the Eschig editions, is that of the notation of harmonics. Rather than propagate this non-
standard and occasional inconsist