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Carolan: 174 #Mandolin, Guitar (duet) #INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED #Turlough Ã“ Carolan #Gordon Jackson #Carolan: 174 #Gordon Jackson #SheetMusicPlus

Instrumental Duet Guitar,Instrumental Duet,Mandolin - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1017672 Composed by Turlough Ã“ Carolan. Arranged by Gordon J...(+)

Instrumental Duet Guitar,Instrumental Duet,Mandolin - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1017672 Composed by Turlough Ã“ Carolan. Arranged by Gordon Jackson. Baroque,Celtic,Classical,Folk,Irish,Multicultural,World. Score and parts. 2 pages. Gordon Jackson #6434379. Published by Gordon Jackson (A0.1017672). 174Turlough Ã“ Carolan (1670-1738) was an Irish harper and composer. Carolanâ€™s music does not sit comfortably in any one particular musical tradition. He was the product of a long line of Irish harpers dating from medieval times or before. He was also aware of Irish folk music, with many of his tunes having a â€˜tradâ€™ quality, particularly in his jig-like compositions. Finally, Carolan was influenced by the music of Italian Baroque composers that he would have heard played at the great houses he visited. Carolanâ€™s Draught is an example of the latter.The rather prosaically titled â€˜174â€™ is simply the result of the airâ€™s original name being lost in the mists of time, and Donal Oâ€™Sullivan, in his Carolan: The Life Times and Music of an Irish Harper [sic.] allocated numbers to the tunes that had no titles (171-180). I have arranged this primarily for solo mandolin, although Iâ€™m sure it can be adapted for other instruments. The piece is played three times through: first, the basic unadorned melody; second, with just a few simple double stops and open strings; third, a fully-realised romp with many, often quite tricky, double stops (and open strings, of course, but theyâ€™re pretty easy!). Iâ€™ve added guitar chords above the staff (letter names only), not that it necessarily needs further accompaniment. The melody is so heavily arpeggiated the chords more or less wrote themselves. A word of warning â€“ easily discovered for yourselves, really â€“ beware of attempting to play this too fast lest those runs of quavers (16th notes) catch you unawares!

Lady Hammond's Alman #Mandolin, Guitar (duet) #John Dowland #Gordon Jackson #Lady Hammond's Alman #Gordon Jackson #SheetMusicPlus

Instrumental Duet Guitar,Instrumental Duet,Mandolin - Digital Download SKU: A0.1017679 Composed by John Dowland. Arranged by Gordon Jackson. Celtic,Class...(+)

Instrumental Duet Guitar,Instrumental Duet,Mandolin - Digital Download SKU: A0.1017679 Composed by John Dowland. Arranged by Gordon Jackson. Celtic,Classical,Folk,Irish,Multicultural,Renaissance,World. Score and parts. 2 pages. Gordon Jackson #6437115. Published by Gordon Jackson (A0.1017679). Lady Hammondâ€™s Alman(Lady Laitonâ€™s Alman)I first came across a tune called Lady Hammondâ€™s Alman in a book of country dances. It comprised just a melody. As I played it on mandolin I was adding plenty of double stops, and I wrote these down. I then added a bass line. Later, I discovered the piece to be a composition of the Elizabethan lutenist, John Dowland. Later still, I found the piece under the name, Lady Laitonâ€™s Alman, but I have retained the Lady Hammond title simply because that is how I first encountered it!An alman (aka almand, almand, allemande etc) is a dance in duple time. Thoinot Arbeau, in his Orchesography of 1589, states that â€˜The Alman is a simple, rather sedate dance, familiar to the Germans, and, I believe, one of our oldest since we are descended from them.â€™ (â€˜Allemandeâ€™ means â€˜Germanâ€™ in French.)