Duet for Harp-4 hands by Marie-Martin Marcel Marin

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January 4, 2014 at 3:17 pm #62135

victoria-m
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I just came across this as I was searching for harp duets. It’s listed as a composition for 2 players on 1 harp? Just curious on how you actually play it?

January 4, 2014 at 7:17 pm #62136

MusikFind1
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The publication details:
Duet for two performers on one harp, and two favorite airs also as duets for one harp : op. 12
by Marie-Martin Marcel Marin, vicomte de.
For 2 performers on harp or pianoforte.
1 score (21 pages) ; 35 cm
“… dedicated to the Countess of Shaftesbury, and to Lady Barbara Ashley Cooper.”
Publisher: London : Printed for the author by Muzio Clementi & Co., [approximately 1800]
Copy at Brigham Young University , Harold B. Lee Library, Provo, UT 84602 United States
http://catalog.lib.byu.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/?ps=rYApq1OXqH/LEE/201500081/9

Copy shown: https://archive.org/details/duetfortwoperfor00mari

January 4, 2014 at 7:42 pm #62137

Sylvia
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One of them better have LONG arms….like a gorilla. That pic is so funny.
Maybe they just didn’t have enough harps to go around, but that’s really a stretch, in more ways than one.

January 5, 2014 at 4:06 am #62138

catherine-rogers
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Two players could sit on opposite sides of the harp, but it seems pretty impractical.

January 5, 2014 at 4:21 pm #62139

Tacye
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I have played this a few times – it is hard on a modern concert grand because the knee block gets in the way, but on a smaller harp (as they were at the time) works quite well. What works on a modern harp is to have three players – one seated playing the inner lines and doing the pedals, then one player for the top line and another for the bottom. Makes a mildly entertaining novelty show piece.

How better to show off two marriagable daughters at the same time?

January 5, 2014 at 4:53 pm #62140

Sylvia
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Tayce,
Photos, please, of your performance.

January 6, 2014 at 3:01 am #62141

Carlin
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Yes, please, Tacye…this is very interesting..

January 6, 2014 at 6:47 pm #62142

Tacye
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Sorry, I don’t have any photos.

January 6, 2014 at 9:32 pm #62143

Gretchen Cover
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Tacye, Perhaps because you played the duet before and know how this piece can be performed , you could find another brave harpist and make a video. I would love to see how this duet is performed. It would be entertaining and a great youtube video:))

January 8, 2014 at 2:17 pm #62144

Loonatik
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Yes Tacye – video please !!!

January 8, 2014 at 5:57 pm #62145

Carlin
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Out of curiosity I asked someone to sit on the harp, with me standing behind her and play some of the 1st harp’s part. It does seem to work, though I guess the one standing will end up playing very high up on the strings. Quite awkward but it seems doable…and it helps if the one sitting is petite.
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