Hallo, I’m Brian Jeffery, and this is my website and the website of my firm Tecla Editions. I’m a historian and editor of literature and music. I make professional editions and write books and articles, and I make them available here on this website. Here’s more about me including recent articles, and here’s more about my firm Tecla Editions.
“I must say that I love what you’re doing and long may it continue…!! I’ve seen Giuliani in a totally new light since buying his complete studies and the urtext of the sonata op 15. It’s also a real eye opener to have the urtext of the Sor studies and to have a proper look at them without Segovia stamping his personality all over them.. same with the Carcassi studies, great edition… music that I haven’t played in a long time, great for my students and really great for my technique” (Nick Marsh, New Zealand, April 2021)
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Tecla News
Read the new June 2025 article about Félicité Hullin.
Read the December 2021 Soundboard article about the fiftieth anniversary of Tecla Editions.
Read my article Sor’s Allegro in the Spanish style in his Fantaisie op. 54 bis in Soundboard for June 2022.
Read my article The ancient and honorable profession of textual scholarship in Soundboard for March 2023.
Comments
From some subscribers who have just received Brian Jeffery’s new book “España de la guerra” , August 2017:
“My husband has a couple of your books and raves about them constantly – serious addict”
A customer in the USA
“su maravilloso libro . . . un libro fundamental e imprescindible para el estudio de la música española de la época de la Guerra de la Independencia”
A Spanish musicologist
“Your wonderful book”
A Spanish musicologist
“I couldn’t put it down”
A musicologist in the USA
Félicité Hullin, a lady of “amabilité, gentillesse, bonté, fierté d’âme, désintéressement”
This article reports on discoveries recently published by two Russian…
Read MoreThe fiftieth anniversary of Tecla Editions, and a big article about it in Soundboard
I’m delighted to say that 2021 marked the fiftieth anniversary…
Read MorePedro Ximénez Abrill – three divertimientos opp. 43, 52, 59
I am delighted and honoured that three divertimientos by Pedro…
Read MoreJosep Maria Mangado: Fernando Sor volume 1, Aportaciones biográficas
I’m delighted to say that Josep Maria Mangado now in…
Read MoreMy book Fernando Sor composer and guitarist is now available as a pdf
Several people wrote to me about the new 2020 third…
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On other Tecla publications:
“This is a very fine book”
Soundboard on Sor’s Complete Studies
“My teacher says your editions are the ONLY editions”
A guitarist in the USA
About Tecla
A brief history of Tecla
Founded by Brian Jeffery in 1971, Tecla started with an edition of Sor’s then newly-discovered Seguidillas, still in print today, as catalogue number 01 (then 001, and now 0001). There are now more than 200 published items. For a time, Tecla was based in the USA, but it is now in England, but with sales worldwide and prices in euros and US dollars (as well as pounds).
Why Tecla? In Spanish, tecla means a key on a keyboard, both a musical keyboard and a typewriter keyboard. So when I chose the name for the firm, music and literature were both covered. Also, at that time it was the name of a tea-shop owned by friends of mine in Mexico City, where artists, writers and musicians met.
Early music players will be familiar with the word tecla from the 16th century vihuela books which spoke of “arpa, tecla o vihuela”, whereby they took the part (tecla, a key) for the whole (the keyboard, which today would usually be the teclado).
BJ
Articles
- Sor. teaching, and the Enlightenment, an essay by Brian Jeffery
- Fernando Sor life and music
- Sor: Variations on a Scottish Theme, op. 40 for solo guitar. The complete preface by Brian Jeffery (1982)
- Fernando Sor: Estudios completos (TECLA 101), introducción por Brian Jeffery en español
- Sor: Appel des nègres aux français. Preface
- Fernando Sor, Composer and Guitarist by Brian Jeffery: extract from Chapter 1
- Fernando Sor, Composer and Guitarist by Brian Jeffery: extract from Chapter 3
- Fernando Sor, Composer and Guitarist by Brian Jeffery: extract from Chapter 5
- Sor: More Seguidillas. First US performance, November 1999
- Fernando Sor: Seguidillas Book 2: the beginning of the introduction
- Sor: Seguidillas. Tips for singers. Tecla Editions. Brian Jeffery.
- Fernando Sor: The Complete Italian Arietts, Italian Duets, and the Three Canons, contents list
- Fernando Sor: The Complete Italian Arietts, Italian Duets, and the Three Canons. The complete introduction by Brian Jeffery.
- Sor: The New Complete Works for Guitar Solo and Guitar Duet: more reviews
- Fernando Sor – The Complete Studies from Tecla Editions – Supplementary Information
- Fernando Sor (1778-1839) biography
- Segovia’s Twenty Studies by Sor – a table of Segovia’s twenty studies and the original opus numbers
- Sor, Fernando – Method for the Spanish Guitar, preface to the Tecla edition
- Sor – The New Complete Works for Guitar Solo and Guitar Duet. Introduction by Brian Jeffery
- Fernando Sor – The Complete Studies, Lessons and Exercises – Complete Preface by Brian Jeffery
- Sor: Seguidillas, as dance music
- Sor: Seguidillas, Introduction by Brian Jeffery
- New light on Sor’s La Despedida (Les Adieux) op. 21
- Giuliani: The Complete Studies for guitar. A note on cello-type technique
- Mauro Giuliani – The Complete Studies For Guitar. Introduction by Brian Jeffery
- Mauro Giuliani – Dances of 1810 for guitar, the complete Preface by Brian Jeffery
- Giuliani: The Complete Studies for guitar. Detailed notes
- Giuliani: Guitar Concerto in A, op. 30. The complete introduction
- Giuliani: Works for guitar and keyboard. A descriptive note by Brian Jeffery.
- Giuliani: The Complete Works, in 39 volumes: Detailed list of contents of Volumes 19-24, the complete guitar duets
- Giuliani: The Complete Works, in 39 volumes: Detailed list of contents of Volumes 1-18, the guitar solos
- Giuliani: The Complete Works, in 39 volumes: Detailed list of contents of Volumes 25-32, the complete guitar concertos
- Mauro Giuliani: The Complete Works. List of individual volumes
- Giuliani: The Complete Works: the complete introduction, by Brian Jeffery
- Mauro Giuliani: Two Rondos for guitar and keyboard, op. 68, the complete preface
- Mauro Giuliani – 24 Exercises for Guitar, op. 48, complete preface by Brian Jeffery
- The complete introduction to Aguado’s New Guitar Method by Brian Jeffery (1981)
- Aguado Aguado – Variations on the Fandango, op. 16. The complete preface by Brian Jeffery (1982)
- Matteo Carcassi (c. 1792-1853) biography
- Matteo Carcassi: 25 Etudes for Guitar, op. 60 (Tecla). Introduction
- Matteo Carcassi: 25 Etudes for Guitar, op. 60 (Tecla). Notes on the pieces
- The terminology of: studio, esercizio, étude, lesson, etc, in early 19th century guitar music, by Brian Jeffery
- Reviews and comments
- Tecla: music for teachers and students of the guitar
- Tecla: music for guitarists at an intermediate level
- Tecla: music for teachers and students of the guitar
- Tecla: music for advanced and professional guitarists
