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Martin Jonas
May-13-2017, 8:16am
Fabritio Caroso (c. 1530 to c. 1605): "Leggiadria d'amore"
From: "Il Ballarino" (1581)

This is an Italian renaissance dance tune, first published in Caroso's pioneering dance manual "Il Ballarino" in 1581. The setting I have used for my recording is by Stephen Hendricks, from:

http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/Italian/leggiard.pdf

My recording is on two mandolins, mandola (a retuned waldzither), tenor guitar and mandocello. The second mandolin plays the high descant harmony above the melody line, coming in on the repeats.

Descant: 1890s Ceccherini mandolin
Melody: Mid-Missouri M-0W mandolin
1921 Zimmermann waldzither
Vintage Viaten tenor guitar
Suzuki MC-815 mandocello

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Martin

Jess L.
May-15-2017, 1:09am
Thanks Martin for bringing these tunes to light! Always enjoyable to listen to. :mandosmiley: