The octave mandolin is valued for its rich tone and wide range of potential use in a variety of musical settings. This book contains 27 easy to intermediate pieces from the Baroque era that have been carefully chosen and arranged to benefit from the longer scale and deeper voice of the big mandolin.The music is presented in both standard notation and tablature, making it easily playable on the mandocello, mandola or standard mandolin. Thirteen composers are represented, including s...

James Oswald, a prominent Scottish composer, music publisher and teacher, composed and published 12 divertimentos in London around 1759 for the popular wire-strung cittern known then as the "guittar". The body of work was intended to help meet the demand for easy to intermediate solo guittar music. Arranged here for the modern mandolin in both standard notation and tablature, each piece includes three or four short movements full of pleasant melodies and interesting ideas. Whereas the orig...

As one of the most productive composers in history, Georg Philipp Telemann endeavored to supply a steady stream of new music for both professional and amateur musicians. The 64 compositions in this collection fall into three categories:Sonatas for two treble-clef instruments without bass accompaniment.Pieces for solo instrument and bass.Movements from Telemann’s many trio sonatas and overture-suites for two melody instruments and bass.Written in standard notat...

Between 1755 and 1761 James Oswald composed and published two sets of 48 Airs for the Seasons, 96 pieces in all. Each air included from two to four separate movements in different time signatures and tempos, almost always in the same key. Each was printed on a single page with the melody on one staff and a bass line (with figures) on a second staff. Additionally, each piece was named after a plant and organized into groups of twelve for each season.This book contains a selection of...

From 1651 to 1728, John Playford, his son Henry, and John Young published multiple editions of the Dancing Master collections of dance instructions and musical accompaniment. Over 500 distinct tunes were printed in these volumes, giving us one of the best pictures of English popular dance music in the 17th and early 18th centuries. This book presents 121 of these tunes adapted for the mandolin, written in standard notation and tablature, with chord symbols. Several pieces have been transpo...

Telemann for Mandolin presents over 70 pieces composed by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) that are particularly suitable for playing on unaccompanied mandolin. The pieces are easy to intermediate in difficulty and are presented both in standard notation and tablature. The book includes excellent material for students as well as many pieces suitable for weddings, recitals and other occasions.