Download or read book A Baroque Sampler for Octave Mandolin written by John Goodin and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The octave mandolin is valued for its rich tone and wide range of potential use in a variety of musical settings. This book contains 27 easy to intermediate pieces from the Baroque era that have been carefully chosen and arranged to benefit from the longer scale and deeper voice of the big mandolin. The music is presented in both standard notation and tablature, making it easily playable on the mandocello, mandola or standard mandolin. Thirteen composers are represented, including six pieces by J. S. Bach, four by G. F. Handel and three by G. P. Telemann.