Mandolin Picking Tunes - Early Music Gems. Mandolin Picking Tunes: Early Music Gems by Dix Bruce is a collection of 34 wonderful songs from the 1200s to the 1600s especially arranged for intermediate and advanced mandolinists. The titles span the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque eras and the sounds of the individual songs reflect those years. The music includes standard notation, accompaniment chords, and tablature. Includes access to online audio recordings of each piece for listening and playing along.

Par HANS LANDAU. Lorsque j'ai commencé à pratiquer la mandoline plus sérieusement, je ne se sentaient pas convaincu en jouant des mélodies de la seule note. J'ai organisé beaucoup de pièces dont je savais depuis ma guitare jouant au fil des décennies, juste pour mon propre usage sur la mandoline. Mon but était de combiner les mélodies avec cordes de la façon qui font les joueurs de guitare. Dans mon livre, vous y trouverez le résultat de mon travail, allant de la Renaissance au Barock, de l'Irlande et l'Italie aux Alpes. Une section supplémentaire avec des morceaux plus difficile satisfera le joueur avancé. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / All Styles - Solos / Recueil / Mandoline

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.