A comprehensive guide for non-guitarist musicians on how to write for the classical guitar. Detailed analysis of all aspects of the classical guitar, including: design and tuning, history of the classical guitar, arranging melodic lines, the guitar arpeggio, composing higher up the fretboard, composition in national and folk styles, extended guitar techniques, eg. harmonics, slurs and ornamentation, suggestions for further study, appendices covering voicings in Major, Minor and dominant 7ths, a to-scale diagram of the guitar's fretboard, access to sound-files on Soundcloud of musical extracts from the book.