Calace scores online

[Martin Jonas]

It strikes me that this announcement warrants a new thread, rather than being buried in the thread (http://www.mandolincafe.net/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=6;t=52729) announcing the 5th Calace competition taking place this August.

This info from Mike, posted 10th April:



Just an update.

Several music scores by Raffaele Calace for mandolin and piano - all as pdf files - has been made available in a specific directory (http://www.federmandolino.it/concorsocalace/) of the web pages of the Italian Mandolin Federation (FMI).

These music scores are available for non commercial use only.

Bye

Mike

There's a total of 64 PDF scores there, scanned from old printed copies or handwritten manuscripts.

Martin

[brunello97]

Fantastic resource, Martin, thank you for calling attention to it. So much has been blowing by me these busy days. The FMI site is very nice place to visit. I have a Nunzio Reina disc with 8 of these duets that we listen to often. Maybe we can find some time and access now.

Mick

[McMandolin]

Thank you for posting the link to the Calace scores. I have having a fine time stumbling through #18 Tarantella.

[Jim Garber]

Wonderful resource and thanks for Mike, FMI and (I assume) the Calace family, for making these available. Many of these look much clearer than the scan on the Nakano site.

[Julio]

The web link has been deleted.

Does anyone know if these scores still can be downloaded for free?

[nickgeo]

The new link for the Calace scores is:
http://www.federmandolino.it/spartiti_raffaele_calace/

[KristinEliza]

The new link for the Calace scores is:
http://www.federmandolino.it/spartiti_raffaele_calace/

Wow - just tried this link from work and it was blocked for the following reason: 'pornography' - can't wait to check it out when I get home :))

[nickgeo]

hmmmm.....Nothing racy there, let me know if I've missed something.
Maybe your provider screens for the word "score" ;)

[KristinEliza]

hmmmm.....Nothing racy there, let me know if I've missed something.
Maybe your provider screens for the word "score" ;)

I can't get to most music sites (mp3/streaming)...and I'm REALLY surprised that I can get here!

[vkioulaphides]

:))

Hello, Nick. SO nice to see you here! Welcome among us.

Yes, maybe "score" is the risque term. ;) I should know, as I work at Mannes College; the "man-" combination of letters gets my office mailbox inundated with discount offers of marital aids... :grin:

Have fun with Calace's newly available scores-- oops!... forgive my language.

Cheers,

Victor

[KristinEliza]

Well...I didn't open every file...but I didn't find any pornography I'm happy to say.

Sure...the mandolin is sexy...but this is a little ridiculous!

[Julio]

Thank you very much Nick. I looked for the link but I could not find it.

[nickgeo]

:))

Hello, Nick. SO nice to see you here! Welcome among us....Have fun with Calace's newly available scores-- oops!... forgive my language.

Cheers,
Victor

Hi Viktor-
We've met here before, I've just been away for a couple of years. In fact I owe you a CD: A couple of old LPs of Carlo Bergonzi singing Neapolitan songs, re-issued by Henry Fogel for a fundraiser. Only a tad of mandolin on that CD though. Married my Calabresa sweetheart and headed off to the Mezzogiorno (I mean, Magna Graecia...) on our honeymoon since then too :grin:....Only stopped by one liuteria, across from the Vatican Museum in Rome. We were in Napoli but I didn't make it to the Calace liuteria....Ahhh, the passegiat' next to the temples at Posidonia...umm, I mean Paestum.....Preferring the Hellenic name... ;-) ....Nick G

[vkioulaphides]

Sorry, Nick... I was just under the impression that you were new at the Cafe (although, of course, I remember you). Ah, memory fails... Oh, well. I am certainly equally happy to meet you again online, despite my pitiful grasp of fact and recent history. :confused:

I may be absentminded, but I also tend to digress. ;) So, my friend, for further such one-on-one chats as this, let us continue via my home e-mail, i.e. vkioulaphides@earthlink.net

As for Calace's scores, I must admit I look at them from afar, as it were. Much, if not most of his music, is WAY above my skill-level. Or, to put it alternatively: if I practiced the mandolin as rigorously as I practice the bass (which I play for a living), I would be a vastly less happy person. Yet nothing less than that sort of rigor would bring me anywhere near playing Calace's little gems to my satisfaction. So, I'll keep on feeding on plankton, so to speak.

Cheers,

Victor

[Elliot Luber]

Thanks for posting this. It's a great resource!

[nickgeo]

near[/I] playing Calace's little gems to my satisfaction. So, I'll keep on feeding on plankton, so to speak.


Well Viktor (hope you're well) here is a Calace piece in the archive which even *I* can play, so I'm sure you'll do fine. :) It seems that many of the files have three scores in them, one for mandolin and piano, one essentially single-mandolin arrangement and an accompaniament part for it on a second treble instrument. So the last two pages of the file linked-to below have the Siciliana Op. 78 in the key of C, 4/4 time and nothing faster than an eighth-note, arranged for two mandolins.
(Note the embedded space in the URL between "Siciliana" and "(mand+piano". And the various email clients/servers may have split the URL across two lines).
"http://www.federmandolino.it/spartiti_raffaele_calace/07804-Siciliana (mand+piano).pdf"