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Hi Christopher, I have put the scores of the Album pour Mandoline No. 1 and No.3 to my musicaneo site:
https://michaelreichenbach.musicaneo.com/
I plan to make scans of Album No.2 and Album No. 4...

This mazurka by the famous composer C. A. Bracco can be found in the Album pour Mandoline No. 3 which has been published by Ricordi ca. 1899. Bracco is famous for his compositions “I Mandolin a...

Hi all,

Newbie here. I'm a Sicilian living in London, and my only real push to play the mandolin is southern italian music because of my roots.

I am searching for my first playable bowlback (I...

Hi all,

I thought it would be interesting to post this 'sound-video' about the celebrated Mandolin virtuoso Silvio Ranieri (Rome, 1882 - 1956, Bruxelles) here.

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It is a video of a...

I came across the above quotation recently in a 100-odd-year-old Crescendo magazine. It illustrates a way of thinking about tremolo: that it may be played at different speeds, but it is not a...

It depends on what a player's sense of phrasing, what the music, seems to call for. Of course, duo-style passages will require some degree of metering to keep the bass notes synchronized.

I’ve searched the threads on this question but cannot locate an answer. Many musicians emphasize using a metronome to develop tremolo technique with emphasis on hearing the first beat in every series...

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uapraiupjyegelb/AADCfJRPznT1ybwbrq2Pwg2Ia?dl=0

This link will take you to the Method Books folder: Gavitti, Pignoloni, and Tesio. Each can be invaluable assistance to...

CENTURY PUBLISHING--INDEX is in the folder.
This is a brand new folder with 21 titles (more on the way)
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nqsw18aai468q29/AAAK3K4zelIUnH6cB8rnD3--a?dl=

First, a bit of a...

You've heard the old saying "too many cooks spoil the broth" ? Well, that certainly could apply in the case many of these marked up M1 parts with chord notations written in above the various...

In the meantime I have added more scores, there are now 16 scores available.
I have checked the scores collected by Sheri Mignano in her dropbox. Only the piece "Al Mare" is available as a complete...

I'd like to share a subsection to my chapter on Maestro Pietro Tesio. He is the star of the book. I had no idea what I would find in my exploration of Italian mandolin music publishers but he left a...

Jean-Grégoire Pénavaire (1840-1906): "Recueillement (pour la Ste. Cécile)"
Prélude religieux - Andante
Arranged for Estudiantina (small mandolin orchestra) by Mario Maciocchi

This is a mandolin...

I have recently got more scores and will add the following pieces shortly:

Vita Beata (Marcia)
Impressioni Musicali (Fantasia)
La Sagra del Villagio (Fantasia)
Suono, Fanfara (Marcia)
Passione...

Well, the composer has also published the piece for piano four-hand, which may be a bit easier to extract mandolin parts from. It's on IMSLP, as is an arrangement of the final movement (Bergamasco)...

I found on the web a free greek music book by Ricardo Sánchez Alférez, 10 melodies with sheet music and mp3 files. This is the link:

http://6266207-0.alojamiento-web.es/wordpress/?p=707

You...

My "Mandolin Melodies" book has it but after I pubished it, I added a second part. see attached. hope it helps.
it's a neglected but great tarantella! each turnaround is accelerated (in keeping...

It's easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of music in the ballo liscio thread. Here are a few titles that I know are available as sheet music AND are pretty common mazurkas and waltzes on both...

Hi all,

I've just published another blog post about one of my discoveries. It's a print from Vienna and dates to 1801, and is from the rather unknown composer François de Zucconi. Mandolin...

Thanks for all the advice everybody! I didn't expect this much feedback. I really appreciate all of the input. This should keep me occupied for a while.

Luigi Dall'Argine: Barcarola del Marinero
From the operetta "Dall'ago al Milione" (1904)

This is a song from a long-forgotten operetta by a long-forgotten composer, arranged for mandolin (or...

Overpriced but certainly very pretty one on eBay UK

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I have just finished my post about the instruments exhibition at the BDZ Eurofestival Zupfmusik 2018 in Bruchsal. Its in German, but it's mostly pictures.

I have made photos of instruments by the...

Thanks, Andy (and Mark for the original score) -- this is a very nice piece and unusual in giving the lead to the mandola for most of the time. Het Consort have got a few Chris Mouter pieces on...

Sorry, too late to help Neil. second edition? My research for my book yielded that Maestro Stellario died September 12, 1929.
the spelling of Stellario's name has so many orthographic/typographic...