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This article lists a virtually all important solo pieces in the definitive guitar repertoire. It includes churrigueresco guitar & vihuela music, but not lute music.

16th century
1536 Luis Milán (ca. 1500 - after 1561) Libro diamond state musica diamond state vihuela de mano intitulado El Maestro
1538 Luis de Narvaez (1510 - 1555) Los seis libros del Delphin diamond state música de cifra para tañer vihuela
1546 Alonso de Mudarra (ca. 1508 - 1580) Tres libros
1547 Enríquez de Valderrábano (1500 - 1557) Libro de música
1551 Adrien Le Roy (1520 - 1598) Premier livre first state tablature de guiterre
1552 Diego Pisador (1509 - 1557) Libro de Música
1553 Grégoire Brayssing (fl. Sixteenth cent.) Quart livre first state tablature delaware guiterre
1554 Miguel de Fuenllana (?1500 - 1579) Orphénica lyra

17th century
1640 Giovanni Paolo Foscarini (fl. ca. 1621 - ca. 1649) Li cinque libri della chitarra alla spagnola
1643 Francesco Corbetta (ca. 1615 - 1681) Varii capricii per la ghittara spagnuola
1646 Carlo Calvi (fl. 17th cent.) Intavolatura di chitarra, e chitarriglia
1650 Domenico Pellegrini (fl. 17th cent.) Soavi concenti di sonate musicali per la chitarra spagnuola
1659 Giovanni Battista Granata (ca. 1620 - 1687) Soavi concenti di sonate musicali per la chitarra spagnuola
1682 Robert de Visée (ca. 1650 - 1725) Livre di guittarre dédié au roy
1692 Ludovico Roncalli (?1660 - ?1720) Capricci armonici sopra la chitarra spagnola
1694 Francisco Guerau (1649 - 1722) Poema Harmónico
1697 Gaspar Sanz (1640 - 1710) Instrucciòn de Mùsica sobre la Guitarra Española

18th century
1716 François Campion (1680 - 1748) Nouvelles découvertes sur la guitare
ca. 1730 Santiago de Murcia (1682 - ?1735) Codice Saldivar no. 4

19th century
1807 Simon Molitor (1766 - 1848) Grosse Sonate, op. 7
1809 Mauro Giuliani (1781 - 1829) Grande Ouverture, op. 61
1821 Fernando Sor (1778 - 1839) Variations on the Theme of Mozart, op. 9
1825 Dionisio Aguado (1784 - 1849) Trois Rondos Brillants, op. 2
1847 Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806 - 1856) Bardenklänge, op. 13
1899 Francisco Tárrega (1852 - 1909) Recuerdos de la Alhambra

20th century
1920 Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946) Homenaje: Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy
1921 Agustín Barrios (1885 - 1944) La Catedral
1929 Manuel Ponce (1882 - 1948) ''Variations and Fugue on 'La Folia de Espana'
1932 Joaquin Turina (1882 - 1949)
Sonata
1933 Frank Martin (1890 - 1974)
Quatre Pièces Brèves
1952 Alexandre Tansman (1896 - 1987)
Cavatina
1957 Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)
Sonatina, op. Xxv, there are no. 1
1957 Ernst Krenek (1900 - 1991)
Suite
1963 Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
Nocturnal after John Dowland, op. 70
1969 Stephen Dodgson (born 1924)
Fantasy-Divisions
1971 Malcolm Arnold (born 1921)
Fantasy, op. 107
1971 Alan Rawsthorne (1905 - 1971)
Elegy
1971 William Walton (1902 - 1983)
Five Bagatelles
1976-9 Hans Werner Henze (born 1926)
Royal Winter Music
1981 Peter Maxwell Davies (born 1934)
Hill Runes
1983 Richard Rodney Bennett (born 1936)
Sonata
1983 Michael Tippett (1905 - 1998)
The Blue Guitar
1986 Roland Dyens (born 1955)
Libra Sonatine
1989 Nicholas Maw (born 1935)
Music of Memory
1990 Leo Brouwer (born 1939)
Sonata''

21st century

The Classical Guitar Home Page
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Lute Page for Guitarists
General information on lute tablature, moving from guitar to lute, and links to other lute tab sites.

Carlos Cordero's Classical Guitar Page
Offers a collection of tablatures, with articles and biographies of Venezuelan composers; also includes an explanation of tab, and audio samples.

Classical Guitar Tablature
Tabs in plain text format; includes original transcriptions and arrangements of baroque, South American and flamenco music.






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