Spanish mando?

[Ben Cooper]

Is there much Spanish mandolin music? If so, can anyone please point me in the right direction? I have been curious about this and would love to hear some and possibly learn some. Thanks!

[jesserules]

No, not really. In traditional Spanish music that sound niche is occupied by the bandurria and the laud.

However - according to some, the mandolin really took off in the USA as a result of SRO tours (circa 1880) by a group called "The Spanish Students", who played tunes traditionally associated with Spanish university musical groups called tunas. They actually played bandurrias and lauds, but mandolins were being made here already and were similar in sound, so mandos were what the throngs of Spanish Students fans asked for.

Thanks, Spain!

[almeriastrings]

Very, very little. As above, there is a lot of fretted instrument music, but I have yet to see anyone with a mandolin (though there are Cafe friends on here from this part of the world). It is certainly not something you would routinely encounter at a fiesta, for example. They have fretted instrument contests and displays... example from close to my house..

[avaldes]

I saw a Tuna performance some years back (a group from the civil engineering school of some university; the "Tuna de Caminos", or road-builder musical ensemble). I only recognized the guitar among the variety of string instruments, but I was not too far in my musical development at that point. More recently, the Buena Vista Social club came to the University of Illinois performance center, and Barbarito Lopez played the Cuban Lute, or laud. Recorded, the laud sounds like a mandolin in many passages. I play flamenco guitar, and maybe I'll try some fusion with an F5 mandolin overdub.

[roberto]

Right, in Spain the most popular plucked instruments are bandurria and laud. But also, there's what it's called mandolina española, a bandurria with single courses.
In the south-east area there's a kind of traditional music played by cuadrillas, string bands with bandurrias, guitars, laudes, fiddles, requintos, octavillas and other less-used instruments, and it's not so strange to see some mandolins. And of course, you can hear some mandolins in traditional music from the central part of Spain.
Musicians like Carlos Beceiro (from La Musgaña) o Juanjo Robles (from Manuel Luna's band) play mandolin usually.

[roberto]

Carlos Beceiro, mandola:


These guys are wonderful:

[Ben Cooper]

Carlos Beceiro, mandola:


These guys are wonderful:

Wow those were really great!

[Bob Clark]

Hi Ben,

If you are looking for Spanish-influenced music to play on your mandolin, check out Allan Alexander's books. I really enjoy his Traditional Dances from Spain and South America for Mandolin, and Music of Spain and South America for Mandolin (NFI, I just really like his books).

Here's his URL http://www.guitarandlute.com/book-cd.html

Best wishes, Bob

[Beanzy]

And if you want to spend hours and hours revelling in a really great sampling of all things mandolin/bandurria check out the 'Trémolo' podcasts on RTVE Radio Classica presented by Ángel Sánchez Manglanos

There's even a thread on the cafe about the various episodes. http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/sh...Badurria-Music

[roberto]

And if you want to spend hours and hours revelling in a really great sampling of all things mandolin/bandurria check out the 'Trémolo' podcasts on RTVE Radio Classica presented by Ángel Sánchez Manglanos

There's even a thread on the cafe about the various episodes. http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/sh...Badurria-Music

I didn't know about this radio show. Thanks!!

[Jim Garber]

I like Trio Assai.



Music starts in this video around 7:30:

[Dagger Gordon]

Here are the Kerman Mandolin Quartet playing Asturias.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwdEl1gXe-8

[Dagger Gordon]

What about this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C93vj8Vft8w

[mandocrucian]

What do you consider "Spanish"? (For example, "Breton" trad music is not usually called "French" music even though Brittany is a province in France.)

There are mandos and OM in use by groups from the northwest regions of Spain (Asturia, Galicia) like Milladoiro and Llan de Cubel. This stuff is often described as 'Celtic music of Spain'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonom...ities_of_Spain