Mandolin Melodies by Sheri Mignano Crawford

Description: Italian Mandolin Melodies contains a vast array of Italian vintage dances dating back to the late 1800s to the 1930s. About 130 dances in the form of lead sheets with large chord symbols above each measure, followed by photographs of San Francisco Bay Area mandolinists who made some of these titles famous. The majority of these Italian dances were published in the United States by the earliest wave of Italian immigrants from areas in the south of Italy and from Sicily. The author transcribed and converted manuscripts and audio files using Sibelius software for clean, easy to read melodies.. First published as a book in 2006, I converted each of the titles and dances into PDFs on a non-audio CD. Large, easy-to-read and easy-to-print sheet music. You arrange your titles however you wish. There are two indexes, alpha by title and alpha by dance genre. Those genres include waltzes, mazurkas, polkas, tarantellas, paso doble, rumbas, tangos etc.. Any "C" instrument can read the staff, and any musical instrument such as guitar or accordion can accompany the mandolinist or flute or any "C" instrument that reads the treble clef. There is a short history of the mandolin in the San Francisco Bay Area with a gallery of photographs showing some of the more famous mandolinists who populated the mandolin orchestras and performed in various ensembles.

Price: 20 USD

Location: Boyes Hot Springs, California

End Time: 2025-02-03T02:21:49.000Z

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