Every year in August there is a Scottish Fiddle School on the Thompson Island close to Boston. For one week you can learn how to play fiddle in the Scottish style, but there are also courses for guitar, cello or bagpipes, and the fiddle style of Cape Breton. On the website of the Scottish Fiddle […]
Recently I have found the sheet music for mandolin of a famous march composed by Abe Holzmann: Blaze-Away. This march has been composed in the year 1901 and has remained popular until today. From Wikipedia: Abe Holzmann (19 August 1874 – 16 January 1939) was a German/American composer, who is most famous today for his
Recently I have added a scan with music for classical guitar to my website www.mandoisland.de as a free download. The book is Guitarre-Solostücke Leicht arrangiert von Josef Kellner Heft 4 This selection of guitar music has been published around 1900 in Munich. I do only own this part 4. On the title page you can
I have recently added a scan of the Emperor Waltz (Kaiserwalzer) by Johann Strauss jr. arranged for mandolin orchestra to my score catalogue at musicaneo. This arrangemet of the famous waltz for mandolin orchestra was made by Ferdinand Kollmaneck. The waltzes by Johann Strauss have always been very popular and have often been played by mandolin
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One of the interesting pieces for mandolin and guitar in the Biblioteca della chitarra e del mandolino is the Serenade by Giuseppe Silvestri. I have found recordings of this tune at youtube and also a historical recording in the National Jukebox of the Library of Congress. The first recording is from the Mandolin Festival in
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The sheet music by Ferdinand Kollmaneck (11.2.1871 Wien – 13.7.1941 Leipzig) is in the Public Domain since the beginning of this year. Kollmaneck was a zither player and composer who has composed pieces for mandolin orchestra and has published arrangements for mandolin orchestras in his publishing company Hella in Leipzig. I own several pieces composed
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Some days ago I have made a scan of a nice piece for mandolin orchestra and have uploaded it to my website mandoisland and to the IMSLP site. It’s a composition by Alphons Czibulka with the great title: Songe D’Amour Apres le Bal / Liebestraum nach dem Balle / Love’s Dream after the Ball This
I have just bought an old edition of Estudiantina Waltz by P. Lacome – Jean Pietrapertosa has published this version for mandolin and piano. I have also made a scan of this edition which is available now as free download on my website. I have tried to find some information about this compositiona and recordings of
Some days ago I have discovered two very interesting mandolin methods in the digital archive of the University of Rochester. The mandolin methods can be downloaded for free. In this archive I have also discovered a collection of Neapolitan Songs from the 19th century collected by Vincenzo De Meglio. The first method is C. Fischer’s
A great swing tune by David Grisman – Tipsy Gypsy. This is a great tune if you want to start with jazz or swing mandolin. You can find free TABs and sheet music on the Mandozine homepage. David Grisman played and conducted this with participants of the Mandolin Syposium 2006 – a great performance: Dawg
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