Petite Serenade (A.E. Sheppard, 1972)

[Martin Jonas]

A.E. Sheppard: Petite Serenade
From: BMG Magazine, April 1972 issue

This pretty pastiche of a Neapolitan mandolin serenade was written by A.E. Sheppard, the principal contributor of mandolin content to the BMG Magazine in the 1970s (he also arranged the Bach gavotte I posted a few days ago). The score is attached and also available for free download from the BMG magazine archive site at:

https://classic-banjo.ning.com/page/bmg-magazines

My recording uses a tenor guitar accompaniment instead of a guitar, so I'm playing the arpeggios out of different chord shapes than in Sheppard's score, for a somewhat more open guitar sound.

1898 Giuseppe Vinaccia mandolin
Vintage Viaten tenor guitar



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