Classical mandolin: Moonlight On The Thames (Bernardo de Pace), on Embergher mandolin

This is another piece from one of my favourite mandolin books: "A Variety Of Mandolin Music", a collection of 36 Victorian and Edwardian mandolin pieces (re-)published in 1975 by Clifford Essex in London, with an introduction by Hugo d'Alton.

This particular piece was written for unaccompanied solo mandolin by Bernardo de Pace, one of the top virtuoso of the "Golden Age". It's fairly straightforward, but with good use of chords to boost the melody line. Fun to play, and with a bit more practice I should get more fluent on the chord fingering towards the end.

Played on my 1915 Luigi Embergher Tipo A bowlback mandolin.

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• mandolin
• solo
• Bernardo de Pace
• Hugo d'Alton
• classical
• bowlback
• Italian
• Luigi Embergher
• vaudeville
• unaccompanied