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Heitor Villa-Lobos is considered one of the greatest writers for the acoustic guitar. His ability to conjure up a twilight stillness which glows through slow cascades of guitar ambience is one of the finest achievements of twentieth-century music.
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Mark Prendergast, The Ambient Century: From Mahler to Moby - The evolution of sound in the electronic age, Bloomsbury USA, 2003, p. 19.
Prendergast’s book is enlightening (and I enjoyed Brian Eno’s introduction).