207697
207698
Who: Oregon Mandolin Orchestra
What: Concert at the Cascadia Mandolin-Guitar Festival, opened by an ensemble performance by the festival’s music faculty
When: 7 p.m. PDT...
207697
207698
Who: Oregon Mandolin Orchestra
What: Concert at the Cascadia Mandolin-Guitar Festival, opened by an ensemble performance by the festival’s music faculty
When: 7 p.m. PDT...
Gordon's Audiation as described in the article has been a standard feature in music education for decades. And it is different from just hearing or listening, because it encompasses the qualities and...
I need to track down the source, but I believe I read in someone's doctoral dissertation that James Reese Europe was the first African American to play Carnegie Hall. Now I also have to go back and...
And I suggest getting Mr. Watters' book:
https://berkleepress.com/strings/exploring-classical-mandolin/
I have used these and other similar picks...i just wound up using the wider sharp...
Bob Margo on the job! My scholarship background is in choral music education, came to mandolins late in life so I'll never really catch up. But I am always impressed with the knowledge I see in the...
Once again I will be presenting new music, new ideas, and new composers of music written specifically for the mandocello. The CMSA Convention in the Clouds will be virtual, so you can attend from...
I studied with Walter in early July of 1985. I went with the Bauers' daughter and her children on the 4th to a nearby Park for the Independence Day celebration. I'm sorry, but I don't remember her...
The two catalogs mentioned both have a lot of good info, but they don't cover everything Vega. Neither the bowlback nor the CB Vega catalog has a reference to the Vega mando-bass. There were two Vega...
Hello Robert,
Thank yo for your feedback.
I want to clarify that I am very grateful for every post that is written here. That helps me very much to give the method a structure that helps as...
Personal preference based on a career of music education: use bass clef. There will be resistance to this, but working with orchestral and choral scores I have come to believe that notation carries...
Dear mandolinist friends around the world,
what a year this has been! Looking back at the time that has elapsed since last spring, it may at first seem interminable. To put this ordeal in some...
Hi all,
I've posted a new blog article about my latest find. I discovered two manuscripts with music for mandolin and orchestra (violin 1, 2, viola, basso, flutes 1&2, horns 1&2) from Ernest...
While searching for simple jps images of common partial scrolls with square finials for some correspondence in a different forum, I stumbled across this little article:...
This decade-plus-old conversation via listserv might be of interest: https://www.mail-archive.com/lute@cs.dartmouth.edu/msg29031.html. In it, I refer to de Murcia's setting for guitar (found in the...
And here is a version on theorbo
https://youtu.be/C8TeZV4ExIs
BTW, in America and other free societies, website owner has a right to control content.
I find your use of invective (“parochial”, “prejudice”) lacking in imagination and creativity. Also, you read my posts a bit carelessly. I never said the learning TAB detracts from more productive...
August, thanks for that.
I just put out what works for me, ymmv. I (used to) play in church alot and found that the flat and sharps were the chords I need most frequently. So, this is what I came...
I just want to point out that one thing standard notation does very well is to allow a composer to write music and have appropriately trained musicians be able to read the score and make music that...
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tok6c2x0i6s4k17/AABGnLTSpaz4wbMzcPHH7Qj7a?dl=0 (Morelli folder) the new sheet music is attached here as well.
This link takes you to the Morelli folder with 17...
Just received from the British BMG Federation Committee:
"Saturday 10th October marks the 10th anniversary of the late, great British mandolin maestra Alison Stephens and you are invited to join...
You have a pretty valuable instrument. You might consider one of the custom makers like Cedar Creek or Ameritage. Of those two American companies I believe one of a friend of mine ordered a solid...
Composition professor Brian St. John has shared to Facebook:
WKU Symphony YouTube channel
Hi all!
Here is a short video with a Prelude composed by the German born violinist Thomas Baltzar, a musician who, from 1655 till his death in 1663, enjoyed great fame in England. Enjoy the sound...
If anyone needs to escape to North Carolina let me know, we are closing on a new house soon and will have some extra space.
Wish that we could send you some of our rain!