Mandolin Picking Tunes - Early Music Gems: Mandolin: Instrumental Album

An Early American Christmas. A wealth of beautiful and joyous music has been written for the Christmas season. Some of the most enchanting melodies can be found in this solo mandolin edition of the Early American holiday repertoire. For this collection, Tommy Norris has selected eighteen lesser and better-known carols and songs from the folk, shape-note, sacred, Native American, African American spiritual, and European hymnody traditions, and arranged them for solo mandolin. Each intermediate to moderately advanced arrangement is shown in standard notation and mandolin tablature. As a learning aid, a downloadable recording of the author's performance of each piece is available online. We hope these arrangements bring the joy of the Christmas spirit to your holiday season.

The primal pluck of the banjo fits right into the rustic character of Early Music. By combining these elements in artful arrangements in the 3-finger style, Lluís Gómez has brought new life to these Early Music Gems. These pieces seem to have been calling out for the banjo all along. Once you hear them played on the 5-string banjo, it will be hard to imagine them being played any other way. -John Bullard Arranged in tablature only for the 5-string banjo in gDGBD tuning. Includes access to online audio of all 34 selections as performed by the author.
1. Adoro +B111:C134Devote
2. Allegro
3. Alman
4. An Italian Rant
5. Andante
6. Ballade
7. Bear Dance
8. Branle Double
9. Chestnut
10. Canarios
11. Childgrove
12. Come With Me, My Giselle
13. Dont veint cela
14. Espagnoletta
15. La Folia
16. FORTUNE MY FOE
17. Gavotte
18. GREENSLEEVES
19. Grimstock
20. Kemp’s Jig
21. Guárdame las vacas
22. Moderato
23. O Esca Viatorum
24. On the Cold Ground
25. Packington’s Pound
26. Pastourelle
27. Rendez A Dieu
28. St. Martin’s
29. Salterello
30. Si Pour
31. To Drive the Cold Winter Away
32. Tutte Venite Armati
33. Volte
34. Wilson’s Wilde
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