I have recently started working on a new tune with my student – Dargason. This tune goes back to John Playfords book about dancing – it just one line of music with instructions how to dance to the tune. On the abc notation website you can find this tune as well: This tune is related […]
The playlist with videos played by Alon Sariel contains a video of a Sonata for 2 violins by Michel Corrette. The sheet music for this Sonata is available in the Werner Icking Archive. So – enjoy the video, download the sheet music, find a second mandolin player and learn to play this sonata: Joe Brent
The banjo player of my bluegrass band sung this song when we met last time – Farewell to Nova Scotia. She grew up in Canada and moved back to Germany, and used to sing this song when she felt homesick. This is a nice folk song, and there are many nice versions at youtube. My
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Lucia Bova is a harp player from Italy. She has published many videos of her performances in her youtube channel, including many pieces for harp and mandolin. I was surprised to hear those pieces, and especially to learn, that one of the pieces has been composed by a teacher for composition at this conservatory, Andrea
The time around christmas is a time to listen to music like the music by this German group – the Fraunhofer Saitenmusik. The group is named after a location, an old guesthouse in Munich and was founded in 1978 by Heidi Zink and Richard Kurländer Das »Fraunhofer« – eines der ältesten und schönsten Wirtshäuser Münchens
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