For more information regarding the works of Villa-Lobos, see Heitor Villa-Lobos: A Bio-Bibliography by David Appleby, Greenwood Press, 1988.
2.
The descriptive subtitles for each Prelude do not appear in the printed editions. For more information see the introduction to Villa-Lobos: Collected works for solo guitar published by Amsco Publications.
3.
The voice-leading analysis makes use of the various notational symbols made standard in Felix Salzer's Music Forum I, “A Glossary of the Elements of Graphic Analysis.” The reader is also advised to see Salzer's Structural Hearing for an even more in-depth view into these analytical procedures.
4.
For more details see Issues in contemporary analysis and the solo guitar music of Heitor Villa-Lobos by Alan Goldspiel, DMA dissertation, University Microfilms International #9431174, 1994.