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    This is not a sales pitch, just a review. I recently bought John Holenko’s “Renaissance Solos”, published by Mel Bay. It’s a great little collection of pieces ordered in difficulty from ultra-easy to intermediate. Most of the easy pieces are even satisfying to play musically. Anyone who wants to play ancient music on the mandolin should definitely start here.

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    Hello Zman, I bought this book and I'm finding it very interesting but quite challenging! Some of the chords and time signatures are finger/foot busting!

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    Yeah, some of them do get tricky. I'm sure that has to do with the fact that most of the pieces were originally written for the cittern, which had a re-enterent tuning similar to the modern-day ukulele.

    One of my favorites in the book is "A Horne Pype", by Anthony Holborne, from The Cittharn Schoole, 1597. It's on page 54.

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    BTW, I was poking around the net and found this wonderful recording of that piece, performed by Jacob Herringman on a cittern itself. Here's a link to the audio page - click on the first selection. (The website asks you not to copy and post the MP3s directly into another site.)

    http://www.cittern.theaterofmusic.com/audio/index.html

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    Cool, thanks for the MP3. Unfortunately I can't listen to music on my computer but will try to download it, then transfer it to my phone and listen to it on that (!!!)
    I found a cd in the library "Watkins Ale" by the Baltimore Consort which has a few tunes from this book (again with a cittern)
    BTW, I am finding the tunes a lot easier since I got a new mando!

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