Your left-hand thumb will partly (largely?) be prescribed by the neck shape, perhaps more so than by scale length. Also consider, e.g., players of Roman-type mandolins (Sebastiaan de Grebber may...
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Your left-hand thumb will partly (largely?) be prescribed by the neck shape, perhaps more so than by scale length. Also consider, e.g., players of Roman-type mandolins (Sebastiaan de Grebber may...
Nay, no earth-shattering developments. Aye, that was a good thread.
Such a thread would be fun.
Giovanni Fouchetti's (1771) Méthode pour Apprendre Facilement à Jouer de la Mandoline à Quatre et à Six Cordes did explicitly name the type and did give it a cursory definition but didn't really give...
That would be big fun, especially fingerstyle.
This was a standard type (mandolino genovese: e, a, d', g', b', e'') of which there are several extant instruments, the luthier Cristiano Nonnemacher often associated with the type. This was the...
Of course. Typographic error, now corrected. Thank you.
I tend to agree, as alluded, but the fact remains that some well-known scholars think otherwise and have provided some justification....
General consensus, but not settled by any means, as I've elaborated elsewhere.
That their works were for 4-course/4-string, fifth-tuned mandolin is the general consensus for Beethoven and Mozart. That's why commercial recordings on 6-course mandolins don't exist. However,...
Elsewhere, mandopops lamented:
I began reply . . . Lots of recordings of the Vivaldi works on 6-course instruments. Some of my favorites are by Il Giardino Armonico primary soloist Duilio...
Lots of recordings of the Vivaldi works on a 6-course instrument. Some of my favorites are by Il Giardino Armonico, L'Arte dell'Arco, and Europa Galante. Parley of Instruments is pretty good for...
I feel compelled to comment a bit on the content of this url. It states that "the [six-course mandolino] was no longer used after around 1740. Only recently has the Mandolino been revived."
This...
Here's my anon. French mandolin, likely from the first half of the 19th c. It's only a little anachronistic, and I still apply the historic stringing from the 18th-c. method books to it. Not easy...
Neil notes that "Among the composers [Gualdo] played was Emanuele Barbella." Barbella often designated his works for "violino o mandolino," and his music was written for and certainly fits the...
Copy now in hand, and I'm enjoying.
For what it's worth, I also picked up Maddaluno's earlier recording on modern mandolin, Costantino Bertucci: Il Ragazzino di Borgo, way back when it was...
Always my pleasure.
Neil Gladd may be your best bet for a comprehensive list. I can tell you all the tracks on the 2-CD set that was released in Japan some years ago.
The only recording of op.94 I have in my own collection is by Raffaele and Maria Calace themselves. I have the aforementioned recording of op.95 by Cristiano Pistone, Stefano Maciga, Fabrizio...
An example of a piece that Calace set for a few different ensembles but that is almost never performed or recorded (the only commercial recording of which I'm aware was by a quartetto romantico...
I did attend the "cloud" convention. I'm very active in organizations related to my work, and many of them have their conferences in the fall. Last time I attended CMSA in person was Dayton. I...
Many of you are likely familiar because the "owner" was one of the guest artists at this fall's CMSA convention (aside: I'm so looking forward to retirement and more time for personal travel...
It'll be a little while before Bickford or Pettine hit public domain.
I don't know that Pettine's instructional material will get you more than those other two resources combined, but it will certainly get you a different perspective. It might be a perspective that...
Not for sale, but I donated a complete Pettine set to Ohio State University's music library decades ago. If you have access to an interlibrary loan system, you should be able to check them out.
I'm a fan of the early-Classical mandolin music of Giovanni Hoffmann (active ca. 1800), especially the concerto and the D minor sonata. A cursory look at his scores makes it evident that his...