Mandolin Bibliographies

[dastardlybard]

Hey guys, do any of you know of any comprehensive bibliographies pertaining to the classical mandolin that might be accessible online. I'm hoping to do some research in the near future on this subject and some starting points might be useful. The more information the better.

Thanks!

[Eugene]

Welcome Mr. Bard!

Not online (until this post), but here's a little compilation I've made of mostly English-language sources that should still be available somewhere for purchase or via interlibrary loan; this should get you started. #In document form, I use this list as a handout to introduce the uninitiated. #Of course, if you look any of this up, especially note the sources they cite as well. #There are a few other sources in other languages and of some antiquity, but they would likely be less easy to locate or use (and it's likely I don't have them on hand). #The list of methods omits the countless golden-era trivialities that abounded ca. 1900. #I know the list of references is rather small, but this is still a relatively obscure topic.

Methods
Bickford, Zarh Myron. 1920. The Bickford Mandolin Method, vols. 1-4. Carl Fischer Inc., New York.

Branzoli, Giuseppe. 1875. Metodo Teorico-Pratico per Mandolino Napolitano o Romano. Franchi/Venturini, Rome.
(This stayed in print via many publishers for a great long time.)

Calace, Raffaele. 1907-1910. Metodo per mandolino, vols. 1-6. Naples.

de Cristofaro, Ferdinando. 1884. Metodo. Lemoine, Paris.
(This stayed in print via many publishers for a great long time.)

Gladd, Neil (ed.). 1983. Sol Goichberg (1937) Thirty-five Progressive Mandolin Etudes, op. 6. Plucked String Inc. Arlington, VA.

Minkoff. 1983. Methodes de Mandoline including: Pietro Leoné (1768) Méthode Raisonnée pour Passer du Violon à la Mandoline et de l’Archet à la Plume, Giovanni Fouchetti (1771) Méthode pour Apprendre Facilement à Jouer de la Mandoline à Quatre et à Six Cordes, & Pietro Denis (1768, 1769, 1773) Méthode pour Apprendre à Jouer de la Mandoline sans Maitre, vols. 1-3. Minkoff Reprint, Geneva.

Minkoff. 1983. Corette, Michel (1772) Nouvelle Méthode pour Apprendre à Jouer en très Peu de Temps de la Mandoline. Minkoff Reprint, Geneva.

Munier, Carlo. 1895, 1909. Scuola del Mandolino: Metodo Completo per Mandolino. Florence.

Pettine, Giuseppe. 1901-1936. Pettine’s Modern Mandolin School, vols. 1-7. Rhode Island Music Co., Providence.

Ranieri, Silvio. 1910. L’Art de la Mandoline. Edition A. Cranz, Brussels.

Tröster, Gertrud. 1995. Technique on Eight Strings, vol. 1: Etüden für Mandoline. Vogt & Fritz, Schweinfurt.

Tröster, Gertrud. 1995. The Classical Mandolin, vol. I: Basic Techniques. VHS Cassette. Plucked String Inc. Kensington, MD.

Tröster, Gertrud. 1996. Technique on Eight Strings, vol. 2: Etüden für Mandoline. Vogt & Fritz, Schweinfurt.

Tröster, Gertrud. 1996. The Classical Mandolin, vol. II: Advancing to Higher Techniques. VHS Cassette. Plucked String Inc. Kensington, MD.

On mandolins, mandolinists, and mandolin music
Baines, Anthony. 1966. European and American Musical Instruments. Viking Press, New York.
(Baines is a good reference but a little problematic in cataloguing a number of 4th-tuned mandolins as "mandore:" see Morey 1993; Tyler 1981; and Tyler & Sparks 1989, 1992)

Bone, Philip J. 1914, 1971. The Guitar and Mandolin: Biographies of Celebrated Players and Composers. Schott & Co. Ltd., London.

Hambly, Scott. 1977. Mandolins in the United States since 1880: An Industrial and Sociocultural History of Form. PhD dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.

Harris, Keith (trans.). 1984. Konrad Wölki (1939, 1974, 1979) History of the Mandolin: The Instrument, its Exponents and its Literature, from the Seventeenth until the Early Twentieth Century. Plucked String Inc. Arlington, VA.

Leenen, Ralf & Barry Pratt. 2004. The Embergher Mandolin. F&N Eigen Beheer, Amsterdam.

Morey, Stephen. 1993. Mandolins of the 18th Century. Editrice Turris, Cremona.

Ruppa, Paul. 1988. The Mandolin in America after 1880 and the History of Mandolin Orchestras in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. MM thesis, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Sparks, Paul. 1995. The Classical Mandolin. Clarendon Press, Oxford.

Sparks, Paul. 1999. An Introduction to the Eighteenth Century Repertoire of the Neapolitan Mandolin. Plucked String Inc., Kensington, MD.

Timmerman, Alex. 1994. De Mandoline en de Gitaar door de Eeuwen Heen. AETii-Producties, Zwolle, Netherlands.
(In Dutch, but recent and worth pursuit even if only for the measurements and visual choronology alone.)

Tyler, James. 1981. The Mandore in the 16th and 17th Centuries. Early Music 9(1):22-31.

Tyler, James. 1981 The Italian Mandolin and Mandola 1589-1800. Early Music 9(4):438-446.

Tyler, James & Paul Sparks. 1989, 1992. The Early Mandolin. Clarendon Press, Oxford.

[Jim Garber]

Bone, Philip J. 1914, 1971. The Guitar and Mandolin: Biographies of Celebrated Players and Composers. Schott & Co. Ltd., London.
Speaking of which, a 1972 copy is currently on eBay (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7363853209).

Great work, Eugene!

Jim