by Brian Jeffery
I specialize in textual scholarship and the making of editions. I’m a professional in what I do. I have taught at five major universities including UC Berkeley and UC Santa Barbara, in four of them at associate professor level (to use American terminology) and in one of them at full professor level when I held the Curtis Mayes Orpheus Chair in Musicology at FSU Tallahassee.
So when I make my books and articles and editions available here on this website, for example my editions TECLA 1200 the New Complete Works for Guitar of Sor or TECLA 101 the Complete Studies Lessons and Exercises of Sor, you can be confident that those books and articles and editions have high-level professional university training and high-level professional university qualifications and experience behind them.
You might like to read my article “The fiftieth anniversary of Tecla Editions” published in Soundboard in 2021 in which I pay tribute to the wonderful people especially at Canterbury and Oxford from whom and with whom I learned how to analyse texts and make editions of them.
Here are recent articles by me in reverse date order (newest first):
“The ancient and honorable profession of textual scholarship, and the place of music editions within that profession” (published in Soundboard in March 2023) (this is a view of the field of textual scholarship and within that field the making of music editions).
“Sor’s Allegro in the Spanish style, Natalie Houzé, and key dates in European cultural and political history” (published in Soundboard in June 2022) (an article on how it came about that Sor in about 1830 composed this Allegro in the Spanish popular style).
“The fiftieth anniversary of Tecla Editions” (published in Soundboard in December 2021) (an article on how my company Tecla Editions came into existence, and what it does).
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