Sentence:  The monograph should deal not only with modal scales (their range, ambitus, "centonized" gestures, cadences, and structural application in music) but would similarly need to deal with the guitar's <WSD>alfabeto</WSD>, the labyrinth of guitar chords, movable chords, transposed chords, the progressions of B quadro and B molle in the <WSD>alfabeto</WSD> books, and so forth. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An early Italian alphabetic notation system used to describe chords.