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Can you tell me exactly, please, what song it is and where to find the sheet music? Thanks.

I would recommend reading James Tyler's book: The Early Mandolin: The Mandolino and the Neapolitan Mandoline (Early Music Series, 9)

The music here is the slow movement of the G major concerto by Antonio Vivaldi for mandolini performed by James Tyler and Robin Jeffrey and The English Concert, Director Trevor Pinnock.

@@primusimperium909 thank you!

They are not behind a glass because they are art, they are because they are history

They're behind glass because if they weren't we wouldn't be able to study them as they'd be sold and bought, moved from hand to hand, broken and poorly repaired. We can study how these were made and make our own mandolinos now thanks to that glass

@@The_IRL_Bard No, that's objectively not true and is just an assumption that there wouldn't be a solution that would allow them to be used actively without being sold, wich is pretty lazy in my opinion. I can present a solution (just one of many that could be applied here), and it is that instead of sitting behind the glass the entire year, they were actively and continously loaned out to recording projects by prominent performers where you had to apply to borrow it for a certain amount of days. Then the instrument would be inspected and evaluated between projects to ensure that it's always in good condition. This would open up a huge world of oppertunity for performers, where prominent performers and even small orchestras could more or less window shop different important historical instruments according to their sonic needs and build up a unique sonic palette of historical instruments, without having to just hope that the performers personal instruments will match the vibe they are going for (which is not very realistic to hope for in some circumstances). For example, if all the violins from the mid to late 1500s that are in playable condition in museums now were accessible this way, you could do a unique project where you record some of the earliest music written for the violin in the 1580s with the actual original violins the music was intended to be played on. Just imagine the possibilities!

Which is why you should have it, right? 😂

I did manage to get a copy of the filmed concert, which I lent to someone who managed to wipe it. Unfortunately 'De Motu Elementari' went into storage in a damp atmosphere and was eventually destroyed - a huge amount of work for one concert! Perhaps Melanie Pappenheim (Facebook) or Jocelyn Pook, who commissioned De Motu Elementari, might have some footage. Last year I started making plans to build a full size working ‘Machine Nostra Horologica’ but Covid put paid to that, at least for now.