The name "mandolin" was used to refer to two quite different instruments: the gut-stringed mandolino , played with the fingers, and the later metal-stringed Neapolita mandoline , which was played with a plectrum. This is the first book devoted exclusively to these two early instruments about which information in reference books is scant and often erroneous. The authors uncover their rich and varied musical history, examining contemporary playing techniques and revealing the full extent of the instruments' individual ...
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The name "mandolin" was used to refer to two quite different instruments: the gut-stringed mandolino , played with the fingers, and the later metal-stringed Neapolita mandoline , which was played with a plectrum. This is the first book devoted exclusively to these two early instruments about which information in reference books is scant and often erroneous. The authors uncover their rich and varied musical history, examining contemporary playing techniques and revealing the full extent of the instruments' individual repertories, which include works by Vivaldi, Sammartini, Stamitz, and Beethoven. The book's ultimate aim is to help today's players to produce artistically satisfying performances through an understanding of the nature and historical playing style of these unjustly neglected instruments.
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Very Good-in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0193185164. Early Music Series, 9; B&W Figures; musical notation; 4to 11"-13" tall; 200 pages; 1989 Clarendon Press, Oxford. HC/DJ. Soundly bound in original pictorial dust jacket. Minimally ex-library copy with am ownership book plate to front pastedown and a small ink accession stamp to the rear endpage. No other library indications. Dust jacket sharp edged and clean with no attachments. Slim red marker line along the top edge of the page block. Includes a small number of b&w figures and some musical notation. Despite mild ex-library indications a solid and generally quite neat copy. VG-/VG+ thus.
