Mandolin Night
Pamela J. Marshall
About this work:
Available in Three Centuries of Solo Mandolin Music (PSE 029), edited by Neil Gladd, who premiered the piece in 1985 at the Women's Music Festival at Boston University and has recorded it and played it on concert tours of Europe and the U.S.
To quote Neil Gladd's notes:
"It makes use of several unusual techniques such as picking the strings with the thumb, glissandos, duo-style (tremolo melody with non-tremolo accompaniment) and scordatura (unusual tunings). One of the E strings is tuned to a C# throughout, and one of the G strings is tuned down twice while playing."
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Year composed: 1985
Duration: 00:04:00
Ensemble type: Solo instrument, non-keyboard:Mandolin
Instrumentation: 1 Mandolin
Instrumentation notes: Top and bottom string pairs are tuned separately, then the bottom string is retuned while playing the piece.