“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.”
—Plato
Live event today! • 12:00 p.m. ET
Join us for today’s live session featuring “Music of the Romantic Era.” In each live session we’ll talk with some of the Harp Column Music artists whose pieces we’re featuring throughout the challenge. Don’t miss this chance to hear from them in person!
Today’s tune:
On Wings of Song
—by Felix Mendelssohn, arranged by Meinir Heulyn
Purchase this Romantic repertoire suggestion for lever harp at Harp Column Music, or substitute something else!
Today’s Tip:
LISTEN TO LOTS OF MUSIC
While you are busy working on your own Romantic piece, take time to listen to other works of this era, written for other instruments. Listening to music played on other instruments broadens your understanding of different timbres, techniques, and expressive possibilities, which can inspire new ways to approach the harp. It helps you develop a greater sense of musicality, as you learn to hear phrasing, dynamics, and articulation choices that can be applied to your own playing. You might even come across a piece you want to adapt to the harp!
Learn more:
DECIPHERING THE DEBUSSY TRIO
—by Fran Duffy
You might not be working on Debussy’s masterpiece Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp, but there is still much to learn about how to approach Romantic music in general and Debussy’s works specifically in this article from the November-December 2021 issue of Harp Column.
