Very fine! I just did a concert where we played a version on hurdy gurdy and alto recorder. It's a tune that works in lots of combinations!
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Very fine! I just did a concert where we played a version on hurdy gurdy and alto recorder. It's a tune that works in lots of combinations!
Hi, Neil,
I took a quick look at Stephen Morey's book Mandolins of the 18th Century, and while he does not have drawings of the bracing patterns, he does mention bracing in the description of the...
According to several posts on Facebook from his musical colleagues, John Goodin, composer, arranger, and fine mandolin player died yesterday. Very sad news for the mandolin world and the world in...
Sorry to hear that, but with COVID cases going up and travel costs as well, I was unlikely to make it to San Diego, so this means I can attend this year's convention. Looking forward to another fine...
This image in post#290 I think is the Mystic Mandolin Club, Creston IA, 1896. I have some late 19th mandolin sheet music with this ensemble on the cover page. You can ee this image and several others...
A great resource for looking through old local newspapers is Chronicling America from the Library of Congress. Unfortunately, there do not seem to be any references to the Brilliant Mandolin...
Here is a good intro to figured bass and realization from the music dept. at Earlham College.
Barry
I will be in and out. Just finished the right hand workshop
Barry
Looking forward to it!
Barry
Likely Richmond VA
Thanks for the edits, John and for the mandocello version! I think that you are right about the adjusted double stops for MC, they new version is richer on the large instrument, though the original...
Very nice, Martin! I agree that this puts it more in the gamba range. My wife is a gamba player and I have been looking through her music to find more of this sort of thing.
Best,
Barry
A great quote from John Playford's introduction to A Musicall banquet set forth in three choice varieties of musick the first part presents you with excellent new lessons for the lira viol, set to...
This also works really well on mandocello (transposed to Am). Thanks for sharing the music, John!
Barry
Very interesting. thanks for sharing, Eugene. I will be experimenting with these ideas at some point.
Barry
There are lots of books about early music performance practice, including some 18th century mandolin instruction books (all later than Bach in this case), including this one and this one, available...
If you enjoy crime novels with some musical background, here are a few from a book I wrote on crime fiction back in 2008:
Duchin, Peter, and John Morgan Wilson
Good Morning Heartache. Philip...
All good points here. Mandolins were certainly in use in 18th North America, though not as popular as other instruments, see this post from an old thread on mandolins in colonial America.
Barry
I would add:
Alison Stephens Music for Mandolin (1991) – CD-SAR53
Vienna Nocturne by the Mair-Davis Duo
Barry
Here is a quick and dirty search of OCLC's WorldCat database (a library of library catalogs) for musical scores, keyword "mandolin," published between 1900-1920. There are over 5000 results, with...
Hi, Mick, This is what I was trying to say, only stated more clearly!
Just because an instrument is a plucked, wirestrung chordophone does not make it a mandolin. English guitar is a lovely...
Sadly, Gualdo suffered some sort of misfortune, for Francis Hopkinson, prominent Philadelphia musician and composer, wrote to a friend on October 17, 1771 that "Sigr. Gualdo lies in Chains in one of...
I think that the thing that occurs to me is that an English Guitar is not really an "ur-mandolin," and even if one was made here in North America at some point that is not the same as a mandolin...
No worries, Graham, I just wanted to make sure folks had the link!
Best,
Barry
Good suggestion, Graham. If folks are interested in reading that dissertation, which is quite useful, the link is above in message #122.
Best,
Barry