19th Century Tunes
Click below to get gif files of some 19th Century Tunes from old books I own. These are 200 dpi gif files and should print fine at 100%.
Mandolin Picture Gallery - Old photos featuring mandolin players
Old newspaper article I found in an old tune book. Why girls should play the mandolin.
Old mandolin catalogs – Luigi Ricca (NY) and May Flower (Chicago) both circa 1901.
| The Tunes | |
| The tunes from Charles Brunover's Miniature Masterpieces for Mandolin | Meadowbrook Melody in A When Twilight Falls (one D string is retuned) |
| from A Variety of Mandolin Music | Petite Bolero by Angy Palumbo |
| Pettine Duo style preparatory exercises. | |
| These are two tunes arranged for 2 mandolins and guitar published by Century Publishing in 1903. | |
| Some of the waltz pages from a tattered book called Howe's
Diamond School for the Violin by Elias Howe from Boston. |
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| Three schottisches (the first two from a mandolin tutor): | |
| A composition dated 1915 by Felix Arndt (not quite 19C) | |
| Two-part tango for mandolin duet from 1934 | |
| A polka transcribed by Jim Garber from Italian String Virtuosi (Rounder 1095) (improved typeset version by Plamen Ivanov) | Calabrisella Mia. |
| A beautiful Italian Waltz (Mandolin 1) | Speranze Perdute |
| Polka-Marcia from an undated Italian mandolin folio. | Trottolina |
| Some tunes from Hamilton's Imperial Mandolin Instructor (1898) method book (Mandolin 1 + accompaniment): | |
| Polka Brillante by E. Becucci (2 mandolins + guitar): | |
| A few Ragtime tunes from 1911, both for 1st Mandolin: | |
| Four Mandolin solo pieces using altered tunings: |
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| Two Step by Arthur Pryor, 1897 | Ye Boston Tea Party |
| Two Ragtime pieces by Jas. A. Johnstone, 1916 (associated with the Gibson Company): |
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| Bizzosa by E. Beccucci (O. Pagani) | |
| Polka Studio by Giuseppe Silverstri (O. Pagani) | |
| Giuseppina al Mare by G. Tarantola (O. Pagani) | |
| Tra Veglia e Sonno by Luigi Canora (O. di Bella) | |
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Mundial directory of free sheet music
Last updated July 20, 2007
