I've been looking through the free tunebooks on the Lark In The Morning website (see discussion here). The one that stood out was a book of 52 English country dance tunes, mainly from Playford, and all arranged for four instruments (two trebles, one bass and chord symbols):
http://www.larkinam.com/EnglishTunesHarmony.pdf
These arrangements are all by our very own David M. Brown (DavidKOS on the forum): thanks, David!
Very enjoyable parts, particularly the bass lines, which sit very nicely on mandocello.
There are 52 tunes in the books, of which I have in the first instance recorded four old favourites of mine. All played as mandolin quartet of two mandolins, tenor guitar and mandocello:
Mid-Missouri M-0W mandolin
1915 Luigi Embergher mandolin
Ozark tenor guitar
Suzuki MC-815 mandocello
On two tunes, the Embergher takes the lead, on the others the Mid-Mo.
a) Mulberry Garden:
b) Never Love Thee More:
c) Mad Robin:
d) Lovely Nancy:
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