Christopher Page’s new book, The Guitar in Georgian England: A Social and Musical History is now in press and will be published by Yale University Press in 2020.

The Consortium for Guitar Research, an affiliate of the Royal Musical Association of Great Britain, now invites applications from guitar researchers, at an early stage of their work, for a Fellowship in memory of Dr. Andrew Britton. The Fellowship comes with funding for board and lodging, and thanks to the intervention of a generous benefactor, Mr Jeff Wells, now includes a contribution to travel costs up to £350. The three-day colloquium of the Consortium, to which the successful candidate will be invited, will run from Saturday 4 April to Monday 6 April 2020 and be based in Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. This award provides an opportunity to share ideas with a group of acknowledged experts in the field. See www.guitarconsortium.wordpress.com for more information regarding the Consortium and its members.

The recipient is expected to give a 30 minute paper at the Consortium conference and subsequently to prepare a succinct report on their work for placing on the Consortium website.

Applicants are invited to submit their CV, and a 400 word (maximum) statement describing their latest research and why this award would be useful to them. Please send applications via email, in a Word or PDF document, to Dr James Westbrook j@theguitarmuseum.com by Sunday 1 December 2019. The chosen candidate will be notified by Friday 20 December 2019 and will be asked to accept the place by Friday 10 January 2020 and to give, in their message of acceptance, an estimate of travel costs. It is the responsibility of the candidate to ensure any necessary visas are in place. See also The Cohort.

Dr Andrew Britton was a Founding Member of the Consortium. His PhD thesis The guitar in the romantic period: its musical and social development, with special reference to Bristol and Bath is a benchmark to all new Scholars and is available online on the British Library Ethos site.

Andrew Britton, 2017

Samantha Muir

Jan van Cappelle

Erik Stenstadvold’s acclaimed reference book, An Annotated Bibliography of Guitar Methods, 1760-1860, which has been out of print for some time, is now available again from the publishers, Pendragon Press.

Erik Stenstadvold has recently produced a new edition of Antoine Lhoyer’s Six Exercices, op. 27 (Paris 1812), published by Guitar Heritage (www.guitarheritage.com).

Lorents Mollenberg – Early 19th Century Maker of Musical Instruments (Swedish lutes, guitars, harps and square pianos) in Stockholm, Sweden. Paper read at the 7th Lake Konstanz Guitar Research Meeting in Hemmenhofen March 29-31, 2019.

Daniel Fryklund – Swedish Collector and Author of Studies Concerning Musical Instruments. Paper read at Musical Instrument Collectors and Collections – International conference at the University of Oxford 23-25 augusti 2019.