Guitar Forum: Expressing Ourselves: Another Look at an Archetypical Nineteenth-Century Guitar Study Set—Carcassi Op. 60

Agogic (rhythmic) nuance of course applies equally as well to the guitar as it does to any other instrument, but this is perhaps a subject for another time.

They are not the sole examples of well-notated guitar music from the nineteenth century. During the same period we can point to numerous works by such figures as Mauro Giuliani and Johann Kaspar Mertz for further examples (in contrast to the much-played, and excellent, music of Fernando Sor—which was routinely published with virtually no expression markings of any kind).

Further, technical, implications—beyond the scope of this essay— exist for the early nineteenth-century guitarists’ use of terms of accentuation, especially when applied to the bass voice.