"GUITAR REFERENCE - Guide to the Guitarist's Modern and Contemporary Repertoire" (Book/CD-Rom) - 2002 Edition. The publication provides the most complete list of the music for guitar solo and ensemble composed starting since the end of the 19th century. The new edition 2002 replaces the old catalogue "The Guitarist's XXth Century Repertoire Guide".

The book (400 pages) lists 7,000 composers and 35,000 pieces arranged by Author's name or by instrumentation. Each record consists of: code of medium of performance, title of the composition, instrumentation, year of composition, duration, publisher, year of publication, publisher's catalogue number. Approximately 1,500 guitar music collections, albums or anthologies are listed in Appendix A. A separate index of addresses, e-mail and Web sites of publishers, music information centre, periodicals is provided in Appendix B. The CD-Rom contains:

- the titles and the reference of the 35.000 works, arranged by author and by instrumentation (guitar solo, ensembles of guitars, ensembles with guitar, guitar and orchestra, voice and guitar);

- an anthology of fifteen musical pieces interpreted guitar by Piero Bonaguri, many in first recording, to illustration of the musical value of the repertoire of the guitar in the XXth century ; music composed by Cappelli, Guarnieri, Desderi, Paccagnini, Green, Galàn, Baev, Sojo, Gramatges, Lauro, Ugoletti;

- a list of anthologies, albums and collections for guitar (sorted by author's name and by publisher);

- address of publishers, distributors, composers, periodicals and musical information centers;

- links to 1500 Web pages of composer and publishers; -

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