These 12 Divertimentos were published in 1759 by the prominent Scottish composer James Oswald. These pieces were originally composed for the popular wire-strung cittern known then as the 'guittar'. Thebody of work was intended to help meet the demand for easy to intermediate solo guittar music. Oswald's 12 Divertimentos have been arranged here by John Goodin for the modern Mandolin inboth standard notation and tablature each piece includes three or four short movements full of pleasant melodies and interesting ideas. Whereas the original compositions were published in the key native to the guittar tuning (anopen C major chord) this book offers the music in a variety of Mandolin-friendly keys. These transpositions adhere to Oswald's original intent that the music be easy to play and pleasant to hear. While suitablefor teaching and performance these divertimentos are above all fun and satisfying to study and play.

John McGann's Guide To Octave Mandolin And Bouzouki contains twenty tunes in styles from Irish to American, in a variety of tunings, melody and accompaniment, presented in standard notation and tablature, with a stereo audio download (left channel melody, right channel accompaniment). Left and right hand techniques and chord voicings are thoroughly discussed. For the first time, the Celtic style "woven texture" accompaniment, unique to the instrument, is fully notated. The book also contains melodic Irish ornamentation, blues, jazz, American fiddle tunes with variations and improvisations (all fully notated), and a chapter "Breaking Away From Block Chords" extending knowledge of the fingerboard. Audio tracks are included to download online.

Par BRUCE DIX. Wedding Music for Mandolin includes 23 of the most popular and best-loved wedding hits for intermediate and advanced mandolinists. Traditonal wedding songs, Easy classical pieces, Two 'Ave Maria” melodies, Favorite Italian, Irish, Jewish, and English songs, The music includes standard notation, mandolin tablature, chords for mandolin and guitar, plus access to online play-along audio recordings of all the songs!/ Tablatures / Mandoline Tablatures

Most of the music in this book comes from editions or manuscripts from England in the late 1500’s. There are also a few French pieces. The cittern was popular in Italy England and France. Aside from various tunings there weretwo main kinds of instruments being played during the 16th and 17th centuries: the 4 course (four sets of doubled strings) and the 6 course cittern with several editions of music to go along with both. The pieces I have chosenfor this book were all written for the 4 course instrument and fall into three main categories: dance music song arrangements and free pieces. The free pieces are basically preludes that explore the melodic range of theinstrument. As the title suggests these pieces can be played very freely and need not have a very strict tempo. The dance pieces are not really meant to be danced to but rather take their form and rhythm from the popular courtdances of the time. These can be played with a wide range of overall tempo but once a tempo is chosen should be strictly adhered to. The song arrangements are settings of popular songs of the time as well as more formal vocalsettings. Care should be taken in making the melody clear and singing. Since the range of the cittern and mandolin are the same John Holenko has kept the melodies intact. Because of the difference in tuning however thevoicing of the harmonies have been changed so as to fit on the mandolin.

Just for Fun: Christmas Mandolin contains over 40 classic Christmas songs. Most of the songs in the book feature three arrangements: the melody in notation and TAB, an easy rhythm option with a simple strum pattern and chords, and an intermediate-level rhythm option written in full notation and TAB. The intermediate rhythm option often combines full melody and chords, making it perfect not only for accompanying a singer and but also for solo performances for friends, family, and recitals. There's even a mandolin chord dictionary in the back of the book. Plus, this book correlates to the matching guitar, ukulele, and banjo editions, so you can have family Christmas jams and sing-alongs.TITLE COMPOSERDance of the Sugar Plum Fairy [Op. 71a, #3] Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (composer)The Twelve Days of Christmas Traditional (source)We Three Kings of Orient Are Christmas Traditional (source)God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Traditional (source)Away in a Manger John R. Murray (contributor)O Christmas Tree Traditional (source)Up on the Housetop Christmas Traditional (source)It Came Upon the Midnight Clear Richard S. Willis (contributor) - Edmund H. Sears (lyricist)Jingle Bells James Pierpont (contributor)Silent Night Franz Grüber (contributor)Joy to the World George Frederic Handel (composer) - Isaac Watts (lyricist)What Child Is This? William Chatterton Dix (lyricist) - Traditional (source)I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day J. Baptiste Calkin (contributor) - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (lyricist)We Wish You a Merry Christmas Traditional (source)O Come, All Ye Faithful Traditional (source)I Saw Three Ships Traditional (source)A Child This Day Is Born Traditional (source)Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Ralph Blane (composer) - Hugh Martin (lyricist)Deck the Halls Traditional (source)The Holly and the Ivy Auld Lang Syne Carol of the Birds Simple Gifts The First Noel Holy Night, Peaceful Night O Little Town of Bethlehem Hark! The Herald Angels Sing In the Bleak Midwinter Carol of the Bells Good King Wenceslaus Angels We Have Heard on High Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring March of the Toys (from 'Babes in Toyland') Go Tell It on the Mountain Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella O Come, O Come, Emmanuel Pat-A-Pan (Burgundian) O Holy Night Here We Come A-Caroling (The Wassail Song) Coventry Carol / Mandoline

Authentic mandolin transcriptions of these classics by the Father of Bluegrass: Blue Grass Breakdown · Blue Grass Special · Can't You Hear Me Calling · Goodbye Old Pal · Heavy Traffic Ahead · I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky · It's Mighty Dark to Travel · Kentucky Waltz · Nobody Loves Me · Old Crossroad Is Waitin' · Remember the Cross · Shine Hallelujah Shine · Summertime Is Past and Gone · Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong · Travelin' This Lonesome Road · True Life Blues.

The Creative Impulse. Par MAIR MARILYNN. Marilynn Mair has enjoyed a long career as a world-renowned mandolinist, esteemed for over a thousand concert performances, more than two dozen recordings and 4 previous Mel Bay books, including the first two volumes of her series, The Complete Mandolinist. In Volume 3, Marilynn steps forward as a composer, presenting over 60 of her own pieces - nearly half written during the pandemic lockdown of 2020-2021 when live music was forced off stage. Creativity didn?t take a break for Marilynn, though, and soon compositions began to sprout from those quiet days: works for solo and duo mandolin, mandolin-guitar duets, and pieces for plucked string ensembles. They fill the pages of this book with fresh ideas, playful melodies, quirky harmonies, and romantic visions. There are scores and parts for her Fantasia, Nocturnes, Études, Choro, and Ensembles, most of the music published here for the first time.Besides sheet music, the book also includes downloads of over an hour-and-a-half of Marilynn?s performances of the music, brand-new recordings of her recent works, some pieces from her earlier CDs, and a few recordings previously made but never released. This book opens the door to a new musical vision, from a musician who has already proven herself a masterful interpreter of classical and Brazilian repertoire. In her own words, ?I had friends and students in mind as I wrote, creating pieces to pass on my unique perspective on what makes classical mandolin cool.? Dive in and see what treasures you may.find.ncludes access to online audio. / Date parution : 2023-08-12/ Recueil / Mandoline

Dix Bruce's 'Swing and Jazz Mandolin: Chords, Rhythm and Songs? DVD teaches everything you need to know to get up and swinging on the mandolin! The main focus is on chord forms and songs so you'll build a repertoire of moveable chords, which you can use on ANY song in the style, while learning eight great songs played by swing/jazz musicians all over the world. Learn at your own pace as Dix takes you through all the basics including the swing/jazz rhythm comp, turnarounds, info on music theory, diminished chords, transposing, basic chord substitutions, common swing/jazz chord progressions, and more. Play along with the DVD and learn each chord progression at both slow and regular speed. Over 100 minutes of video instruction! You'll learn: Closed position/moveable Swing and Jazz Chords The Swing Rhythm Comp (how to play with a swing/jazz feel) Chord Numbering (I vi ii V etc.) Transposing Chords and Songs Basic Chord Substitutions and Alternate Chord Forms All about Diminished Chords Turnarounds Blues, Cycles of Fifths, ii V I Progressions 8 great Swing and Jazz Songs in several different keys! Corrine, Corrina Avalon Swing in Minor Blues in Bb The Sheik of Araby After You've Gone Chord progressions / Mandoline / 100 pages / niveau : Débutant/Intermédiaire / Dvd - Format: 7,5 X 5,25

Strum sing and pick along with these 25 Beatles favourites arranged for Mandolin.This songbook includes Across the Universe And I Love Her Eight Days a Week Eleanor Rigby Here Comes the Sun Here There and Everywhere Hey Jude In My Life Let It Be Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Penny Lane Yellow Submarine Yesterday and more.

Par ANDREWS DREW. Enfin ! Un livre de corde écrit pour le jeune débutant (ou le même débutants de tout âge) montrant de manière créative et simple à apprendre et à jouer les accords mandoline. Accords sont enseignées en commençant par les plus essentielles à la plus avancée. Accords sont présentés avec des exercices que miser sur l'autre et éventuellement mener l'étudiant à jouer des progressions de corde logique et commun. Ces progressions comprennent I-iii-vi-ii-V-I et douze bar blues dans plusieurs clés différentes. Accords apparaissent sous forme de diagramme de corde avec photographies montrant des postes de doigt en relation avec l'idéogramme. Des exemples et des exercices sont présentés dans la notation de barre strum. -Photos d'apprentissage facile - et les diagrammes d'accords extra large Chords sont enseignées en commençant par les plus essentielles à la plus avancée. -Chords sont présentés avec des exercices qui misent sur chaque autre - grands pour les débutants de mandoline de tous les âges / Niveau : Débutant / All Styles - Chord Book / Recueil / Mandoline

Getting Into Jazz Mandolin is a breakthrough approach that takes four uncomplicated fretboard patterns (FFcP) and drills a physical familiarity into the player's fingers softening the fear of upper frets andpreparing for the harmonic alterations necessary for the effective and intuitive playing of more complex contemporary music.No longer confined to basic folk genres any mandolinist aspiring to a broadercomprehension of music including swing blues pop choro broadway and even classical can expand his or her playing through a working knowledge of jazz fundamentals.Following a brief introduction to modes theplayer is eased into jamming with audio accompaniment and eventually an initiation into the most fundamental jazz chord progression of all the 'ii V7 I' pattern. From the horizontal (melody) to the vertical (chords) and back the results are an instinctive and physical grasp of tonal centers and the improvisational fodder of effective performing.The exercises in Getting Into Jazz Mandolin place an emphasis on pinkystrength finger control and sustain and the book's exercises also develop the player's concepts of tone and melody. This book includes access to online audio. Further supportive resources including MP3 audio tracks are alsoavailable on the internet.

A Collection of Cakewalks, Rags, Slow Drags, and Foxtrots from the Gilded Age. Par . The popularity of the mandolin in the United States between 1885-1915 led to the formation of many regional mandolin orchestras and mandolin clubs across the country, particularly in the urban areas of the Northeast and Midwest, but also as far west as San Francisco and as far south as New Orleans, e.g., the Tulane University Mandolin Club. In fact, Scott Joplin dedicated one of his early rags, The Entertainer, to his local mandolin club in Sedalia, Missouri, i.e., to Mr. James Brown and his mandolin club. So tune up your mandolin and enjoy playing the music that would have been heard in the neighborhood dance halls and feel like you're back in the Gilded Age! Each song in this collection is arranged for mandolin in staff notation and mandolin tablature with chord symbols. / Date parution : 2023-06-01/ Recueil / Mandoline