FORM AND TEXTURE — THE JOURNEY CONTINUES----- The Album is OUT

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FORM AND TEXTURE — THE JOURNEY CONTINUES

The album is out. But in many ways, the journey is only beginning.

For years, I’ve been fascinated by a hidden chapter in the history of the guitar — a story that reaches back through centuries of music, manuscripts, instruments, and the musicians who brought them to life.

FORM AND TEXTURE is my first step into that world.

The music of Joan Ambrosio Dalza, Franciscus Bossinensis, Vincenzo Capirola, and Francesco da Milano survives across the centuries, preserved in early printed collections and manuscripts. Playing it today, I find music that is mysterious, restless, playful, and unexpectedly beautiful.

And I keep returning to one question:

What if the instruments themselves helped lead the music somewhere new?

This is more than a recording. It is the beginning of an exploration — of sound, touch, texture, and a musical history that may have been hiding in plain sight.

Thank you to everyone who has listened, shared, and joined me on this journey.

FORM AND TEXTURE — Ted Mann.

The search continues.

What Happens?

What happens when you take a piece of music that has been silent to most people for centuries…

…and bring it back to life?

I’ve been spending a long time with music written for instruments that most people today rarely hear — music filled with strange turns, unexpected harmonies, voices crossing and intertwining.

And the more I played it, the less it sounded like history.

It sounded alive.

There is a story here.

I’m beginning to tell it.

A few Days

Something has been waiting in the strings.

FORM AND TEXTURE: An Exploration of Lute Music from the Italian Renaissance

Ted Mann — lute.

Coming in just a few days.

If you'd like to hear it when it arrives, you can pre-save it on Spotify and Apple now: