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Contents 1 Confusing section layout 2 Why don't you have a go? I'm sure you could only improve it. 3 Are you afraid to sign your posts? 4 A word of warning to readers! 5 Guitar repertoire?

[edit] Confusing section layout

This article needs clarification of the distinction between the sections, especially the two "Romantic" sections and the "Viheula" section which needs to be more explicitly indicated as being part of the Renaissance era. Also, the difference between the modern/contemporary/21st century composers is unclear. This possibly needs an expert who can differentiate the music of these eras. --Ray thejake 04:26, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

There is no list of "classical era" composers.

I didn't notice any mention with respect to the Baroque composers that the guitar either didn't exist as we now see it or at best (and I'm really just leaving open the possiblity, I don't think there was "guitar" in the Baroque era, Lute, Vihuella but I don't think any guitars).

The early romantic list is full of people that didn't write for the guitar and any transcriptions done for guitar of their music should be listed by the arranger and his era.

The romantic list contains a lot of guitarists, some that might better be considered "classical".

Basically it should look more in line with the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_guitarists page as that is more accurate.

This is my first time posting on this wiki thing, I'm no expert on the ways or customs of wiki but I know a little about guitar (no expert either); so if this isn't how I'm supposed to make these comments or if these comments aren't all that useful, please accept my apologies.

I am amazed that there is no information at all for the Classical Era, during which time the 6-string guitar came into fashion, and many important works were composed. --HappyPC 13:36, 19 Nov 2008 (PST)

[edit] Why don't you have a go? I'm sure you could only improve it.

I suppose that what would be really useful to people who want to study guitar would be a list of lute pieces that are now mainly played on guitar - a link to reasonable arrangements and tabs would also be fantastic.

ps I was disappointed not to find Sylvius Leopold Weiss mentioned anywhere

[edit] Are you afraid to sign your posts?

With the sole exception of Wikipedian Ray thejake's, all of the other posts in this discussion are ANONYMOUS. They should, therefore, be discarded or erased. (No use answering to someone who is hiding). --AVM 22:25, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A word of warning to readers!

I've just ready this article and am shocked at its lack of quality and factual data. Please consider obtaining serious primary sources or even better: articles published or written during the actual musical period you are interested in.

I've just deleted the most ridiculous descriptions of the romantic period, that I've ever come across. For example:

• "Composers such as Chopin, Schubert, and others composed [...] because the composer simply "felt like it" at the time."

Apparently the original author did not know that improvisation and improvisery composition was an INTEGRAL part of the baroque and CLASSICAL era!

• "Works were far more expressive, and music was thought to be intrinsically tied to other art forms."

I cannot believe how it is possible that people can think that music of the classical era, or the baroque era was not expressive or not tied to other arts. (Actually I can: Those people are the owners of recordings by the legions of boring modern classical guitarists - the worst and most ignorant musicians I know.) Bloodguitarist (talk) 18:26, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Guitar repertoire?

I'm sorry for not editing it all by myself now, but I have to say that there is something very wrong with this article: it has a great number of music that was not originally written for guitar, but only transcribed at some other moment. It means that this article is absolutelly useless, considering that I can create an article called "Ocarina repertoire" and include a lot of works as if it was of domain of the ocarina, when it simply doesn't mean anything than that another person made a transcription for it, absolutelly arbitrarily. Things get really worse here in the Romantic Period section: Beethoven is listed (and it is doubtful if he was a Romantic composer) with the "Moonlight Sonata", that is an unclear title for the Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor Op. 27 No. 2, and, as I said, is just the reference to the existence of some transcription to the work, thas was never intended to be played at the guitar in its origin (nothing against the transcriptions, of course). But while it points to these works of the common-place that weren't even composed for guitar, it doesn't mention, for exemple, some works that Beethoven wrote (and that was not publicated during his life) for mandolin and that can be adapted for guitar. It would be an interesting reference, but this one, pertinent, is missing, while other ones, absolutely impertinent, are here.

Somebody with knowledge of cause should adopt this article, maybe consulting even the repertoire of labels such as Naxos with some series dedicated to the classical guitar, and remake it, deleting all these sparse references to common-place works that don't have anything with the guitar.

--Leonardo T. Oliveira (talk) 17:30, 31 August 2009 (UTC)