The Guitar Circle
by Robert Fripp
Honour necessity.
Honour sufficiency.
Table of Contents
0
Before The Beginning
What Am I Going To Do With The Rest Of My Life?
One
An Introduction To Guitar Craft
Letters To The Second Guitar Craft (US) Level Three
Suffer! Then Die In A Blaze Of Glory And Live Eternally Among The Stars!
The Art And Science Of Heckling
Journal: Level One, Alfeld, Germany 3rd. – 8th. August 1998
Journal: Level One & Level Two, Lebanon, NJ 2nd. – 9th. September 2000
Journal: The Guitar Circle, Sant Cugat, Spain. 7th. – 12th. July 2011
Two
Life Is Hard, We Suffer and Then We Die
When Music Leans Over And Whispers In Our Ear…
Paradise – Paradise Lost – Paradise Regained
Three
Discipline
Nine Recognisable Characteristics Of Mastery
An Interior Architecture (notes)
Any Living Practice Is Creative In Its Nature
Who Is The Future?
We Do What Is Possible And Allow Space For The Impossible…
Four
Music So Wishes To Be Heard…
The Professional Life
The Best We Can Do
The Assumption Of Virtue
Release
The Observer
Five Questions From A College In England
A Question From A Crafty In England
Four Qualities Of Undertaking
States And Stations
Five
The Orchestra Of Crafty Guitarists
The Act Of Music Is Social
Six Principles Of The Performance Event
Seven Assumptions For Work In The Circle
A Common Practice
Work In The Circle
The Centre Of The Circle
A Few Words On The Qualities Of Improvising…
A Brief Approach To Nervousness In Performance
Qualities Of Time And Our Experiencing Of It…
A Few Words On Time And Our Relating To It…
The Death Of Music
When Ready, Please Begin
Instructions called, to guide extemporizing by The Orchestra Of Crafty Guitarists II at Raft Island
The Orchestra Of Crafty Guitarists II
Instructions called, to guide extemporizing by The Orchestra Of Crafty Guitarists II in public performance at Fremont Abbey, Seattle
The Artist Must Be True
Six
The Guitarist Inside
Seven
Guitar Craft Aphorisms
