Exciting new titles will be coming...probably by the end of the year! We have Victor Emmanuel & Friends to thank!
It's not going to happen before Christmas. Just so you know, there are probably close to three dozen more titles and it's proven to be too much work right at the moment. When it happens I can tell you this: many of the incomplete titles will be complete trios. That's a promise! It will be worth waiting for. I wish everyone well for the holiday season. Thank you for keeping the tradition alive with your interest and enthusiasm.
I'm happy to say that we've been able to complete quite a few titles that were missing parts. This list represents the NEW COMPLETE TRIOS in the De Stefano folder (except where it is noted otherwise below) Make sure you've downloaded the updated INDEX
UPDATED INDEX ATTACHED to this message.
DE STEFANO FOLDER link with newly completed trios and several new titles.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i5c9sesbl...pmFWQoraa?dl=0
Anna Margherita
Belle of Turf Villa
Brunswick polka
Fantasia: Faust
Il Cordialita
Il Fiore D’Autunno
Il Progresso
Il Trionfo Italiano
Il Coraggio (M1 & G only)
Il Trovatore
La Citta dei Fiore
La Croce Rossa
La voce del popolo
La Tenerezza
Leonora
Love and Passion
Mio Amico
Our Treasure (only M1 & G)
Pensieri Fiumani
Queen Venus
Rosina polka
Se Puoi
Segreto Amore
Sempre Felice
Sempre Uniti
Sogno Dorato (only M1 & G)
Spirito Affetuoso
Te Sola
Trionfo e Gloria
Two NEW TITLES now exists in the MISCELLANEOUS Folder. see link below for access
Amore Indimenticabile mazurka (G.M. Messina) he usually published with Di Bella but this is a manuscript, self-published.
Rondinella mazurka (Stellario Cambria) Fischer pub (not Italian publisher) this is one
of Cambria''s most popular mandolin solos. Nakano used to have all of his...and it can be found elsewhere.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/co16hc6i5...3y9iXmSla?dl=0
Note: I realize there may be larger ensembles out there looking for more standard instrumental parts. Currently, I'm working on creating a De Stefano folder exclusively devoted to small orchestral arrangements that use flute,clarinet, cornet, viola, trombone, bass, drums. When that's complete, I'll announce the link. Some of these orchestral versions will be of interest to those ensembles.
In addition, when time permits, I'm going to be consolidating some band arrangements that may be of interest to everyone. Stay tuned.
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, Sheri
p.s. There will be a few more more trios that will be of great interest and but I don't know when they will be ready for upload.
Stunning work, as usual. Thank you so much Sheri!
Merry Christmas to you and to all MC friends
UPDATED EASTERN EUROPEAN FOLDER and added Prince Carol (Tesio 1916 publication)
you will find an updated Index for this folder's content. There aren't too many but it continues to grow.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5byi722tw..._WDGueRHa?dl=0
A very special addition to the basic Tesio publications: it's the 1905 "New York Rapid Transit" polka.
Unfortunately, only M1 exists. Chords would be easy to figure out on this one. Next time I
update the Index, I will add this polka. here's the link to download it:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ge77nkdb8...7XP6wylRa?dl=0
Grazie molto, Sheri! Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo a te.....
Mick
Ever tried, ever failed? No matter. Try again, fail again. Fail better.--Samuel Beckett
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Happy New Year!
here's an updated Excel spreadsheet with three new titles--all NEW M1 parts. They will be found in the TESIO folder.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1gkmids1x...8YMQbGxFa?dl=0
Make sure to download attached Index as corrections have been made as well.
A Trip to Dante City --F. Tentarelli M1
La Stella di Tripoli --V. Berardi M1
Primavera d'Amore -- V. Berardi M1
Note: if you previously downloaded "A Trip to Dante City", I mistitled it. It should be titled "Dante City" (a waltz by Tesio). Today's "Trip" is a march by Tentarelli. Corrections are in the Index as well.
that should do it for now. As always, if you find anything amiss, please let me know.
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The addition of a new title by Ausonio Pellacani. "Sulle Rive del Serchio" (TESIO)
and the addition of the complete TRIO of the Columbus Day March by Tesio (TESIO). This complements the piano score that was one of the early uploaded titles in 2014.
INDEX UPDATE ATTACHED reflects these additions.
More on the way! we're off to a great start for 2017.
p.s. I just saw La La Land. There is a strong message in that film about keeping certain music traditions alive. While it centers on jazz related themes, one could say the identical things about this century old tradition. We need to be teaching the younger generation and more! Thank you again for whatever you are doing to keep this music thriving.
DE STEFANO LINK
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i5c9sesbl...pmFWQoraa?dl=0
Three titles are now complete trios; I've just added the M2 parts: Il Coraggio, Our Happiness, and Sogno Dorato.
Attached here is the updated INDEX reflecting these completions. The Index is 25 pp.
NEW TITLES ADDED and New Parts to already existing titles:
EASTERN MIX (mainly from Tesio) These titles are 4 digits and are assigned to the Eastern European Folder: "Svegliati Romania" & "Ieri Sera in Giardino (alphabetized with Italian translation but both new titles are written in Rumanian. complete trios Eastern European Index resides in this folder as well.
TESIO
Two new parts M1 & G) for "Fiamme di Gelosia". We now have a complete trio.
NEW TITLE: The Egyptian [sic] Song (mistranslation of Greek-Egyptian hybrid for The Gypsy). complete trio Composed by N. Kokkinoy. Arranged by Tesio.
PAGANI
New title to the Index: Belta Spagnole by Giuseppe Silvestri but it is a reduction score and arrangement by Flaminio Pignoloni. complete Trio.
attached Index 1.15.17
The "Egyptian" is located in the Eastern European folder, not the regular Tesio folder. Otherwise, everything else looks good. There will be some additional (and NEW!) titles soon to be added. Please stand by! Thx
Sadness. I keep getting error messages when I try to access these wonderful tunes. I realize I'm way after the time, but I can't help that, I just found your post now.
just a note about links. I don't know why they become invalid and I don't know why you should be getting an error message. If you can not open the link below, please let me know. Thank you, Sheri
New titles added in TESIO folder; some titles may have already been listedon the Index as M1 only but they now are complete trios. All parts now exist: M1, M2, G.
see attached updated Index: 2.13.2017
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ge77nkdb8...7XP6wylRa?dl=0
Fiamme di Gelosia
Svegliati Romania
Ieri Sera in Giardino
Pallide viole
La Vita e un Sogno
A Trip to Dante City
Primavera D'Amore
La Stella Di Tripoli
Stay tuned as a new batch has arrived from our dear Canadian friends. Many titles are new! Aren't we lucky and blessed!
TESIO FOLDER
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ge77nkdb8...7XP6wylRa?dl=0
UPDATED INDEX ATTACHED
NEW TITLES UPLOADED TODAY:
Profumi Orientale (M1 only)
Bayonne Trio
La Sigaretta Trio
Added two new titles to Tesio folder and attached updated Index 3.1.2017 2P
Una Sera in Venezia (waltz)
Insonnia (polka)
NEW TITLES ADDED & UPDATED INDEX
TESIO:
Petit Bouquet de Roses
Bridal Polka
Happy Hours
O. DIBELLA
complete Trio now available of "Il Mio Dolore!"
INDEX UPDATED with above titles.
Thanks for the updates, Sherry!
I wonder, besides the canzoni napoletane, do you come across any other published songs? For example, at a paper show last Fall, I came across this sheet music for Signorinella Mia... not really folk music, but just about every older musician I've run into seems to know it (and can recognize it from the first few notes!). I've attached a scan.
I have one title in the Neapolitan folder by Vasin but these are much too late for my taste. They're ASCAP (Alfred pub) and tend to be too commercial. Also, the date means they're at least a generation or so away from my fixation on Italian American immigrants
between roughly 1898-1924). Thanks for sharing. I'll add it to the Neapolitan folder and update on that thread. BTW, have you played it?
D. Vasin is a pseudonym for Nino Ravasini. His popularity might be due to hooking up with Hollywood. Here's a nice writeup in the Italian wikipedia. nice photo, too.
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nino_Ravasini
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I have... and do! I even sing it (sorta)... I do what I can with what I got!
Thanks for the link and detail on D. Vasin. I hear you about your preference for the earlier material... it's just that the older guys I've met (not many, altogether) all seem to come from the later stuff, so if you want to hang with them, you kinda have to be conversant, at least a little. They all know more common tunes like Speranze Perdute and Tra Veglia E Sonno, though... I can't wait to get a little more free time so I can spend a little more time with them.
Seems like somehow, "Neapolitan Song" and "Italian Music" became somewhat synonymous over the 50s and 60s, and that trend may have started even earlier. The older 78s always seem to be more varied and a little wilder, although there's always something good when you least expect it.
"Spring Flowers" is a a complete trio and certainly one of the earliest published Tesio dances (1900). It has arrived just in time for springtime flowers. We are blessed!
I've attached the trio and an updated Index to reflect this addition. now back to that coffee.
UPDATED INDEX ATTACHED to reflect additions.
here are the new titles --all Tesio folder
Hurrah for USA -- (just in time to commemorate 100th anniversary WWI)
Greek National Hymn and a March
New York March --another version for piano as published by Tesio.
Neemah! -- this a piano score of a famous vaudevillian song published in 1905.
Note:
if you downloaded Bayonne polka on the an early March announcement, I apologize because I mistakenly uploaded La Sigaretta under that title. That has been fixed.
Bayonne now exists. It's a great little polka, too.
Bayonne Polka is also Tesio and it has been uploaded with this batch.
METHOD BOOKS
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uapraiupj...rq2Pwg2Ia?dl=0
I've added a third method book to keep company with Cardilli's two treatises: Pignoloni's (1912) and Gavitti's (1910). I'm happy to say that Tesio's Complete Musical Catechism (bilingual edition) 1913 is now available for download. While it is clearly modeled after Jean Jousse's (1760-1837) music grammar book, Tesio offers philosophical commentary and much more reflection as well as the basic answers to what I would call a first semester course in the "fundamentals of music." For example: His reply to "What is music?" is worth the download. This file has been reduced so it won't take up much room on the PC.
You can compare his catechism with Jousse's in the link: https://archive.org/stream/joussesm0...ge/n0/mode/2up
Happy Easter! Happy Spring! Sheri
p.s. and yes, a few titles on the way...
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