The studies of the present book, the opus 60, have been published for the first time around the year 1853 by the publisher Brandus, and almost simultaneously by Schott in Germany. Their composition probably dates from 1836, according to Carcassi's own words in his method: «...studies op. 60 following this work...«. This edition has been though of as an alternative to the numerous already in print, and has the particularity of having no fingerings. We often hear musicians hoping that they would not have to scratch out the fingerings in their book, because they are not fitting their way of thinking, and we have hoped to provide in this work an obstacle-free publication for them to experiment. Otherwise we are following d'OZ conventions concerning cautionary accidentals, and have as usual identified the technical slurs as being dashed, to differenciate them from music phrasing slurs.
