Onofrio Di Bella: "Parla d'amore"
Published by Di Bella Music, New York, 1917
This is another Italian-American waltz published in 1917. Like most of these ballo liscio dances, it was arranged for two mandolins and guitar. I have extracted an additional mandocello part from the guitar bass line to make it a quartet.
The first mandolin part is from Sheri's Dropbox folder. The second mandolin and guitar parts were posted by Christopher Stetson on the Cafe here. For easy reference, I'm attaching all three parts to this post. There are a few editing mistakes -- they're fairly obvious, but watch out when sightreading.
I tend to try for some degree of subtelty, but this tune works for me best as a flat-out tremolo blast -- fast, bright and loud to get everybody on the dance floor.
1890s Umberto Ceccherini mandolin
Mid-Missouri M-0W mandolin
Vintage Viaten tenor guitar
Suzuki MC-815 mandocello
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