Videos of Italian tunes

  1. Martin Jonas
    Martin Jonas
    Good to see this new Group -- maybe it can be some sort of focus for those of us that are interested in playing Italian music.

    To kick this off, I thought this may be a good place to collect links to the various Italian tunes I've recorded and posted on Youtube over the last couple of months since I got a new webcam.

    As I said when I first posted links over in the "Celtic/European folk" forum (where Italian music tends to get drowned out by the Irish contingent), I have no claim to any technical merit or authenticity and I'm basically a hack player, but recording these tunes works for me as a way of getting my practice time a bit more goal-oriented rather than the usual aimless picking. Soem of these I've played semi-regularly for a few years, but others I've learned straight from the sheet and played only two or three times before recording, so there is some variability in fluency as well as more than a few mistakes and fluffed notes.

    I learned these tunes from various sources, mainly:

    1. Old arrangements for mandolin orchestra which are in the repertoire folder of our informal seven-piece ensemble (I play only the first mandolin part in the videos, which sometimes works fine and sometimes feels like something is missing).

    2. Old photocopies of 1920s sheet music, usually set for two mandolin and guitar, published for the expat Italian community by New York publishers. I got a stack of those from Jim Garber a few years ago and have introduced several to our ensemble.

    3. Sheri Mignano's wonderful book "Mandolin Melodies", now in its third edition and migrated from hardcopy format to PFD files on CD-Rom.

    Here is what I have on Youtube up to now:

    Io Te Vurria Vasa

    Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana

    Piacer d'Amor (Silvio Ranieri arrangement)

    Piacer d'Amor (anonymous arrangement)

    Serenata Napolitana

    Bizzosa Polka

    Lazy Gondolier

    O Marenariello

    Piccola Bambola Mazurka

    Speranze Perdute (on Embergher)

    Speranze Perdute (on Ceccherini)

    Speranze Perdute (on Mid-Missouri)

    Sogno d'una fata

    Olga Polka

    Leonora Valse

    La Bella Siciliana (tarantella)

    Serenata de Rose

    Reginella

    Parlami d'amore Mariu

    Mezza Notte

    Mattinata

    In Fondo Al Mare

    Signora Fortuna

    Se Tu Sapessi Quando Ti Voglio Bene

    O Detto Al Sole

    Napoli Tutta Luce

    Napoli China Femmine

    La Romanina

    Baciami Forte Mazurka

    Autunno Senza Te

    Quando Tramondo O Sole

    Tenebre Infinita

    Lieto Passato

    Un Viaggio A Messina

    Tosselli's Serenade

    Santa Lucia

    O Mio Babbino Caro

    Ciribiribin

    Aida Mazurka

    Martin
  2. wundo
    wundo
    That's alot of good music!
    Any chance of getting copies of Olga Polka and La Bella Siciliana?
    thanks
    Bill Foley
  3. Martin Jonas
    Martin Jonas
    Bill,

    Thanks for the comment. Send me a PM with your email address...

    Martin
  4. wundo
    wundo
    Here's a list of some Tarantellas we play every Saturday Night at a local
    Neapolitan Restaurant. I could use more, if anyone has a suggestion.
    thanks

    Tarantellas
    #1
    #2
    Calabrese
    Calace
    Fasola
    Fishecettando
    Funnicula
    La 'Ndrezzata
    La Zita Passa
    Pizzica
    Quadriglia Napolitana
    Wedding
  5. billkilpatrick
    here's two from the '60's - might be "troppo moderno" for the turn of the last century repertoire but they're beautiful songs:



  6. Martin Jonas
    Martin Jonas
    By way of update, here is a list of new Italian tunes that I have uploaded since my post in early June -- not much, as I was sidetracked first by the World Cup and then by going away on holiday:

    Aida Mazurka (a completely different tune from the one with the same name linked above)

    Polka: Una Gita A Spezia

    Amor Innocenta (that's the spelling on the printed sheet music; proper Italian would be "Amore Innocente").

    Funiculi Funicula (of course!)

    Mazurka: Tra Veglio E Sonno

    Mazurka: Tears and Smiles (L Francia)

    Waltz: Mio Dolce Sogno (G Vicari)

    Lazy Gondolier

    Martin
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