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Martin Jonas
Jan-10-2017, 10:08am
Fabritio Caroso: "Nobiltà di Dame" (1600)
1. Alta Regina (Cascarda) - 0:00
2. Nuova Regina (Balletto) - 0:43

These are two Italian renaissance dances, the first two dances in the collection "Nobiltà di Dame" by Caroso, an update on his earlier "Il Ballarino". A full facsimile of the book (from which I have taken the illustrations for the video) is at:

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/caroso2/

As the tunes are clearly related and in the same time signature, I have combined them into one single tune played without gap. My recording is a duet of mandolin and octave mandolin, based on the duo arrangements by Steve Hendricks at:

http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/Duettrio/altareg.pdf
http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/Duettrio/nuovareg.pdf

1890s Umberto Ceccherini mandolin
Mid-Missouri M-111 octave mandolin

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Martin