SKU: HL.333141

ISBN 9781568527628. UPC: 884088536169. 9.75x14.0x0.756 inches. Text by Dick Boak Foreword by Steve Miller Introduction by C.F. Martin IV.

Martin guitars are internationally revered, collected and played by performers, singers, songwriters and by legions of avid collectors and enthusiasts. This book features more than a hundred of Martin's most desirable guitars, including instruments belonging to Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Joan Baez, Sting and Eric Clapton. Dick Boak enthusiastically outlines his experiences as liaison in these collaborations. We also get a sneak preview of Martin's millionth instrument, due in 2004. Dick Boak is the head of artist relations and publicity at C.F. Martin & Co., collaborating with artists in the design of their Limited Edition and Signature Models. A prolific artist, luthier and musician in his own right, he is a founder of the Association of Stringed Instrument Artisans, and has organized numerous national instrument-making symposiums.

SKU: BO.B.3945

ISBN 979-0-3503-3967-7. 9 x 12 inches.

The restrictive use of tonalities has prevented the guitar access to the development of many of the morphological and formal resources that, from the classical period, has developed instrumental music. Freedom of modulation, thematic transformation or the ability to assume broad structures of development are some of the procedures that, historically, have been limited by the presumed inability of the guitar to use the full range of tonalities. With these 24 Romantic Fantasies this historical prejudice is broken and the guitar is offered the possibility of addressing a wide range of compositional skills and expressive proposals that until now had belonged exclusively to the world of piano or chamber music.