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  • October 26, 2009 at 3:19 pm #84299
    brook-boddie
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    Jer~

    Rhett has some other pieces that are pretty chordal.

    October 26, 2009 at 4:33 pm #84300
    Jerusha Amado
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    Thanks, Brook!

    October 26, 2009 at 5:20 pm #84301
    Elizabeth Volpé Bligh
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    I just heard Judy Loman on CBC talking about “Be Still My Soul”, which is part of the piece “Finlandia” by SIbelius. Judy hosted a show called “My Music” in which she played pieces that meant a lot to her for various reasons.

    October 26, 2009 at 5:22 pm #84302
    Jerusha Amado
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    Elizabeth,

    I just love Judy Loman.

    October 28, 2009 at 1:52 am #84303
    Elizabeth Volpé Bligh
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    But back to the topic! A very chordal piece is the famous “Largo” from “Xerxes” by Handel. It may not work on lever harp without some re-voicing, but it definitely works on pedal harp.

    October 28, 2009 at 2:19 am #84304
    Jerusha Amado
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    Thank you, Elizabeth!

    October 28, 2009 at 2:32 am #84305
    barbara-brundage
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    There’s a very nice arrangement of that piece in Dewey Owens’s “Wedding Music for the Advanced Lever Harpist”. Also Gertrude Ina Robinson has a nice lever harp version, too, but I forget the title of the collection.

    November 6, 2009 at 2:54 am #84306
    Saul Davis Zlatkovski
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    Yes, I have pondered that myself, for building strength, and there are surprisingly few solos that are basically all chords. The Bach-Grandjany etudes offer a few, two adagios and a bourree. There is the original Bach-Salzedo Bourree and Salzedo’s Londonderry Air, some of his Christmas pieces and to extremes, the Prelude Fatidique, Bolero and Recessional. Dewey Owens’s Bach Chaconne is fairly chordal. Gaubert’s Sarabande also, but those are concert solos. It’s a short list. The Pavane in Solos for the Harp Player is of course, there as well as some Corelli pieces.

    November 6, 2009 at 5:06 am #84307
    Jerusha Amado
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    Thanks so much, Saul!

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