Bruch Scottish Fantasy AND Petrouchka

[Eugene]

Hello.
Please help me!!

(1)
How do you play the chords in Scottish Fantasy? (1st movement)
Do you roll them or play as blocked chords?
(I prefer blocked chords.)

(2)
Petrouchka!!!!!
Is it possible to play ????
I play only right hand in the orchestra. (If there is a second harpist, he/she can play the left hand.), but is it okay to play only right hand in an audition?

Thank you.

[Eugene]

Sorry I didnt mention…
Petrouchka
First Part
4 measures after [2] – [7]

How do you play?
Thank you.

[charles-nix]

There was a discussion of that here a few years back.

Beginning of Petrushka

Maybe that is a starting point for you.

[carl-swanson]

Stravinsky, because he was Russian, did not have copyrights on any of his early music, in particular the three ballets. For this reason, he went back to these pieces, I think in the 1940’s, and made new orchestrations, which he could then copyright. I believe that the main thing he did to the harp parts is reduce them from two harps to one. This made them more problematic to play.

[Saul Davis Zlatkovski]

All chords on the harp are broken, either quickly, brisee, or arpeggiated, unless marked otherwise. In modern music you can choose to play them flat, but it will sound awkward and ugly (in some opinions). Chords are broken because it makes them easier to hear, is expressive, is musical tradition, they last longer, and it is unique now to the harp. Pianists used to break chords much more, and stopped doing it in the 1920s or so. Because it is tradition, you certainly do so in traditional music. Call it “period style” if you have to. Only the eighth-note fast-moving chords might be flat. And when you break them, the top note lands on the beat, not after.

[Saul Davis Zlatkovski]

I played Petrouchka in school and had no problem with it, given a few months of preparation. It is playable.

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