DEAR Martin, thank you for the 4 videos, splendid as always. i encourage everyone to look up Andy hornby's compositions. jocular constable is a favorite of my from his book pheasnt feathers.
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DEAR Martin, thank you for the 4 videos, splendid as always. i encourage everyone to look up Andy hornby's compositions. jocular constable is a favorite of my from his book pheasnt feathers.
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dear martin, thank you for tidying the formatting and also for your dozens of videos of my tunes. at sunrise , thank you for sharing your story about you daughter.i appreciate it very much.i remember...
3 mandolin solo and trio books from Evelyn.
Dear mandolin friends. i Have2 new books on amazonfree for download from this forum and one more mot on amazon. Please avail yourelf of your free...
Dear Mandolin friends,
Gary, thank you very much for posting the links to the earlier books.
I understand that some computers can't access the music this way, so I have put all 5 books in a...
Dear Mandolin Friends,
Here is my fifth folio of free mandolin trio arrangements for winter. I included 6 carols this year, all of them beautiful and most not well-known. All but two are new...
Just wanted to remind folks of the free collection of 13 Halloween mandolin trio arrangements with chords that I posted a year ago.
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Here are transpositions of Winter's Tale 2 from 2015 for viola clef and bass clef, as requested by friends in Wisconsin. There are several New Year's tunes in this volume. I am posting them in case...
Jeremy,
In reference to your bass player, here is a tune from Winter's Tale 1, "Pretty Little Cat." The bass (harmony) line is really fun on my Kala UBass, which is a baritone ukulele with thick...
I was asked to transpose some of the tunes in Winter's Tale 4 to alto clef and bass clef for a trio in Pennsylvania that plays treble, viola, and bassoon. Here are the pdfs in case anyone else would...
Dear Mandolin Friends,
Once again another year has gone by since I posted my last Winter's Tale tune book on this Forum. Here is Winter's Tale Book 4, with 22 tunes for mandolin trio plus guitar...
Charles Saksena published a lovely waltz “Tusen Sjöars Vals” a.k.a. “Tuhansien Järvien Valsii (Thousands of Lakes Waltz),” in his collection.
Saksena, Charles. Fiddle Music from Northern Lands,...
Dear Mandolinistas,
Here is my new free collection of 13 tunes for Halloween. Each tune is arranged for mandolin trio (melody, descant, and harmony) with guitar chords. The titles are:
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I am in College Station. For the moment we are having a break in the rain, which has been constant since Friday. The city is safe, but classes were canceled today and tomorrow at Texas A&M University...
Jack, here is a link to an earlier thread. There are three tunes here: Mândelyn, Morvan Rhuddlan, and Red Piper's Melody. The last 2 include pdfs of my trio arrangements. Martin Jonas recorded...
Dear Mandolin Friends,
I am happy to announce that my new book is available now from Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=evelyn+castiglioni....
Martin, that was lovely. The Embergher does sound wonderful with the piano track.
Thanks,
Evelyn
Dear Mandolin Friends,
Yet another year has rolled around since I posted my Winter's Tale 2 tune book on this Forum. Here is Winter's Tale Book 3. I hope you enjoy playing through it. If you see...
They will be coming back to Texas in July. I got to hear Lia and Elisa play this stunning piece when they swung through College Station TX in April. If you love music and musicianship of otherworldly...
It's so nice to hear the arrangement played, Leo. Thank you for posting it. I like both mandolins, though I lean towards the rounder tone of the Gibson.
Regards,
Evelyn
Here is a trio arrangement I recently did for my practice group.
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This is such a lovely tune that I wrote descant and harmony lines for it. My version of the melody is a blend of Mark Linkins' and the versions from O'Farrell and Roche. My mandolin practice group...
Graham just sent me photos of the flat top mandolin be is building for me. It has a Monzino body shape, slotted head, and 13 inch scale. The top is Englemann spruce and the back and sides are tulip...
mlinkins, thank you for posting this lovely tune. I wrote it out, as I couldn't find a source at first, but later I found it in O'Farrell's Pocket Companion (vol. III, p. 12, appearing as “The...
Thank you for posting your delightful recordings and images, Martin. You have certainly captured the joy in these two tunes. My contra dance band plays them at a slightly faster jig tempo for...
Rob, this is simply gorgeous. I've listened to your rendition several times already. Thanks so much for posting.
Evelyn