Three short pieces for the Cittern - Tommy Johansson

Three short anonym pieces for the 4-course Cittern. The Milke-Mayds Bobb,
Come Deere Dandy and Light O´Love.
Two of the pieces comes from John Playford ed. The English Dancing Master, 1651.

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Music

Tags:

• Classical
• Cittern
• Milke-Mayds
• Bobb
• Light
• O´Love
• Come
• Deere
• Dandy
• England
• John
• Playford
• Tommy
• Johansson

[ceteracorsa]

Beautiful playing, congratulatiosn Tommy. I hope the cittern will have a popularity similar to the lute... Thanks again for your beautiful music!

[Ski56ppy]

Hi ceteracorsa, many thanks for your kind comment! I hope that I can contribute a bit by playing some pieces for the 4-course cittern. Some early pieces for the cittern are technically very demanding and should be played on a smaller instrument. Most of the solo repertoire for the cittern still waits to be recorded by someone.

Best regards Tommy

[guortiglossa]

you can see me and my cetara on "YOU TUBE" search "Coro Gabriel" li culori di la ita.Thank. Guortiglossa

[Ski56ppy]

Thanks for your comment! Grazie!

Exciting performance! Where is this video filmed? Is this in the southmost of Italy?

Beautiful instrument and a lot of strings. Is this an folk instrument or is it an early music one?

Best regards Tommy

[guortiglossa]

sarebbe bello vedere la ditteggiatura. Molto dolce lo strumento. Bravo. Io suono una cetara gallurese costruita Ugo Casalonga, Ma il sistro è fantastico

[Ski56ppy]

Gracia!

Best regards Tommy

[Yavor54]

Really, you do. ALL the mass-manufactured Octave mandolins are terrible. The mando family is: Mando, Mandola, Octave mandolin,Bazouki, cittern and then some variations..mando-cello etc. I suggest Bill Petersen in Iowa. Hand-made to order- and built the way they should be built. His prices are very reasonable for custom instruments. Go with cedar on the top. Rosewood body gives medium level with rich timbre. Koa - more volume, nice sound. Maple back, loud volume, tight sound. I like Maple/Cedar.

[jrlaker]

How difficult is it to acquire a cittern? Do you have to have them built?

[ceteracorsa]

Hi Tommy, i am Damien from ning! :-)

[ceteracorsa]

Ciao!

Aghju vistu la video di u gruppu accompagnatu da a cetara, he billissima!

A cetara d'ugo hà un sonu fantasticù.

[guortiglossa]

Thank for your fine words.The "cetara"have 16 strings.He we have in Sardinia about and medieval period until 1930.We rebuild in atelier Ugo Casalonga in Pigna (Corse)in 1985.The model is tract in a picture of 1700.