Alexandra Louise Harris
Vivaldi Four from Signore Maggiorino
Signore Maggiorino and the Eight Rarest Sounds. A totally bizarre and somewhat wacky tale accompanying the middle-grade musical adventure, Violetta and the Venetian Violin.
Download the ebook for free at https://www.alexandralouiseharris.com/signoremaggiorino. This video features the third movement from Vivaldi’s concerto for Four Violins, with an original introduction by Alexandra Louise Harris.
Signore Maggiorino was an ordinary luthier, minding his own business and striving to make better violins. Unfortunately most of them sounded like a cat being strangled until one fateful day. Four wise men land on his doorstep. They present him with a peculiar commonsion, asking him to make four violins to save the world! And that's not all. In order for them to work, he must search far and wise for the most random and bizarre noises imaginable—The Eight Rarest Sounds.
This is the first in a series of unexpected uncial tales accompanying the Violetta books. Violetta and the Venetian Violin begins right where this tale ends: in Venice in 1717. Here are the illustrated music videos accompanying the story and you can watch the entire musical journey here at https://youtu.be/amNRYUoUUmg.
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You can find the Violetta and the Venetian Violin album here on YouTube, or to stream below.
http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1590665103?ls=1&app=itunes
http://itunes.apple.com/album/id/1590665103
https://open.spotify.com/album/3auU1gNVW4BBIdldtNjize
Links to purchase the Violetta books can be found at https://www.alexandralouiseharris.com/shop, and a new adventure is on the way very soon. Violetta and the Paganini Poltergeist is set in Paris, and features, you guessed it, Paganini's music. Pierrette Le Bon and All the Magic of the Universe is the second short story to accompany that adventure, so that will be along very shortly too. Oh, and if making your own Venetian-style masks is up your alley, then you’ll find some kits there too.
In the meantime, happy reading and playing!
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