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1930s Country Mandolin: Bluegrass Roots - Softcover

Weidlich, Joseph

 
9781574243475: 1930s Country Mandolin: Bluegrass Roots
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1574243470 ISBN 13: 9781574243475
Publisher: Centerstream Publications, 2017

Synopsis

(Fretted). Examine the development of country mandolin performance during the 1930s with this book by Joseph Weidlich. During that decade, the mandolin became a featured solo instrument requiring players to quickly develop a new style of playing in order to give vocalists a break from singing, particularly in the popular "brother act" format. As the decade progressed, numerous idiomatic techniques were tested, discarded and refined leading to instrumental solos that were eventually based more on playing over chord changes than on the actual melody itself. The techniques outlined here, based on period recoridngs, clearly establish the roots of that new solo approach which blossomed in the looser ensemble format of early 1940s "bluegrass" music.

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Publisher
Centerstream Publications
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1574243470
ISBN 13 
9781574243475
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
84