Six pièces faciles, op. 13 (published in 1925), is a set of solo guitar pieces by Antonio Alba (see Figure 1).1 I discovered this score thanks to the “random page” navigation feature on the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) home page. Alba was new to me. Through a quick Internet search, I learned that he was a Catalan guitarist, composer, and music teacher who lived in Chile from 1873 to 1940. He composed more than 400 pieces, 250 of which were printed by commercial publishers in Valparaíso, Barcelona, Madrid, and Paris.2 Works for guitar make up the bulk of Alba's output. I clicked on his IMSLP artist profile and saw twenty-two of his compositions available to download. For each work on IMSLP, I could download a scan of the first printed edition, a nonprofessionally engraved modern edition, and tablature.
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