Like his compatriot and contemporary Carlo Curti, Pietrapertosa has written a mandolin method book. But thanks to the University of Rochester, this method book is downloadable for free. https://urresearch.rochester.edu/ins...ersionId=15196
Just click on the second link and a PDF will load up.
It seems to me like a typical golden era mandolin method.
Tremolo is the rule and détaché is the exception.
By the way, it is entirely in French, but I guess, the instructional parts are less important than the musical examples. And they seem to be nice.
I tried to play Mélancolique Tendresse from the beginner's section.
The second mandolin is for Le Professeur and as such a little too advanced for me, so I tried to reproduce it with my guitar.
Mandoisland has Pietrapertosa's Mandoline-Album for download.
http://www.mandoisland.de/noten2010/...l#.WoRM-ecxnIU
It has arrangements of well known tunes at the time for mandolin duet, like for example Rosenzweig's waltz Les Brises, that Martin has recorded nicely.
https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/s...+Pietrapertosa
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