​This is a valuable and enjoyable collection of Italian folk music and song for mandolin, suitable for beginners as well as professional musicians. The book includes forty songs, both instrumental and vocal pieces and delves deeply into the heart and soul of music from various parts of Northern, Central and Southern Italy. Written in standard notation and tablature, together with mandolin and guitar chords. The book also has the potential for International appeal.

The anthology includes complete texts and translations of the songs with accurate and precise accompanying styles and arrangements for two mandolins, or violin and guitar. Above each piece of music, a brief description or background of the song is included, giving the player a better understanding for interpretation as well as the exact strum or picking pattern for accompaniment. The selections include: medieval and renaissance instrumental folk dances, sixteenth-century Neapolitan Villanelle, work songs, lullabies, narrative ballads, prisoner songs, and popular dances including tarantellas, pizzica, Sardinian ballo tondo, quadrille, waltz and saltarello. An accompanying CD of all of the pieces in the book is included.

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$25.99