Romance by J C Mouter 1925 - 1982

[Andy Boden]

A quartet with mandola solo by the Dutch composer, Johannes Christiaan Mouter, transcribed from a score uploaded to Facebook by Mark M Davies.



Score and parts available on my webpage at

http://www.andyboden.com/misc.html

the ad lib. Cello part has been scored separately.
Parts for 3rd/solo mandolin and alto mandola (CGDA) have been included which could be used, if necessary, in place of the 8ve mandola (GDAE) – though the tonality would, of course, change.

Andy

[Martin Jonas]

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 Youtube (including a 25-minute guitar concerto), but I can't find any other performances of "Romance".

Here is my own recording, played a bit slower than Andy's sequenced Soundcloud recording: in view of the "lento" marked in the score, 60 bpm seemed to me more appropriate. It also gives me the chance to showcase the tone of my all-mahogany Mid-Missouri octave mandolin for the solo mandola part.

Mid-Missouri M-111 octave mandolin
1890s Umberto Ceccherini mandolin (x2)
Vintage Viaten tenor guitar
Suzuki MC-815 mandocello

All art by Louis Icart.



Martin