Highlandville, May 14, 2004 (for 2 mandolins, guitar, cello & bass) (Score) (M1) (M2) (Guitar) (Cello) (Bass)

Halfway Home (for 2 mandolins, guitar, cello & bass) (Score) (M1) (M2) (Guitar) (Cello) (Bass)

At the annual meeting of the Executive Board of the Classical Mandolin Society of America in October, 2012 we discussed ways that we might encourage the members of the American String Teachers Association to consider using the mandolin in their school programs and ensembles. We talked about how ASTA is already embracing other plucked string instruments (guitars, harps) and how the mandolin is closely related to the violin in its tuning and fingering.

Dr. Jim Bates, an active ASTA member, suggested to me that I might arrange one or two of my existing mandolin ensemble compositions for a grouping of 2 mandolins, guitar, cello and bass. The idea being that it should be relatively easy for a teacher to find two young violinists willing to try the mandolin and play in a small group with guitars, cellos and bass. Jim offered to take these arrangements to the annual ASTA conference and share them with interested members. I have created this page as a place to make these "mandolin and strings" arrangements easily available.

Although I am the creator of this music and I retain all rights to its use, I am making these pieces freely available here under the guidelines of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 license described below.