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September 28, 2011 at 5:04 pm #146660

erin-wood
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I have been asked to perform in a program with a water theme. They suggested a song called Niagra Falls. What other water related pieces can you think of? La source, obviously. What else?

In searching for material, I found a really cool picture of a harpist submerged under water with a supposedly water proof harp. http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/09/17/harp-under-water/

I am surprised that didn’t catch on! I wouldn’t mind having a water proof harp!

September 28, 2011 at 5:10 pm #146661

erin-wood
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And by La Source I am thinking of the one by Zabel, Hasselmans , and Vers La Source by Tournier, and I guess Little Fountain could be included too.

September 28, 2011 at 5:40 pm #146662

kreig-kitts
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Trnecek’s transcription of Moldau?

September 28, 2011 at 6:09 pm #146663

erin-wood
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The Moldau would be awesome! But I doubt I can learn it quickly enough.

September 28, 2011 at 6:29 pm #146664

Amber M
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How about Valse des Ondines by Cecile Corbel?

September 28, 2011 at 6:45 pm #146665

kreig-kitts
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Barcarolles also fit a water theme, and there are plenty of those in harp repertoire. The Mendelssohn?

September 28, 2011 at 7:00 pm #146666

eliza-morrison
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It’s a piano piece, but Debussy’s “The Sunken Cathedral” is very watery! Salzedo made a transcription for multiple harps…don’t know if there’s a solo harp transcription out there…

September 28, 2011 at 10:14 pm #146667

Eileen Monger
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What about one or more of the ‘Six Pièces’ by Jacques Ibert? They include Matin Sur L’Eau, En Barque Le Soir and Reflects Dans L’Eau, and Ballade sounds like a river, too…..

September 28, 2011 at 11:54 pm #146668

unknown-user
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Dialogue with a Brook by Sylvia Woods from her book the Harp of Brandiswheire. It’s really pretty and sounds very watery!

September 29, 2011 at 3:48 am #146669

Han Hsieh
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Echoes of a Waterfall by John Thomas.

http://www.archive.org/details/echoesofwaterfal00thom

September 29, 2011 at 8:39 am #146670

erin-wood
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Wow, thank you for all the fabulous ideas! I think this could turn into a very nice program. It was great to see the link of the archive at BYU! I didn’t realize how many pieces they have archived.

September 30, 2011 at 3:36 am #146671

Saul Davis Zlatkovski
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And please don’t forget that soggy old chestnut, “The Mermaid’s Song on the Banks of the River at the Spring in the Forest while Bathing” by Jan Fcedekl, the well-known Fredonian harp master who was Harpo Marx’s teacher in Animal Crackers.

September 30, 2011 at 11:57 am #146672

Susan Abken
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Karl Oberthuer’s “Play of the Waves” is very pretty, with two melodies intertwined, one in the RH and one in the LH. The RH melody is in the thumb. It’s in the album “Wedding Cake” with the green cover.

October 1, 2011 at 12:56 am #146673

kreig-kitts
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I was in Betty Paret’s Second Harp Book, and happened to see it has a collection of short pieces, “Three Sea Sketches”: “Dolphin in the Waves,” “The Bell Buoy Rings,” and “The White Gull’s Flight.” Pretty and not very difficult.

October 1, 2011 at 6:04 pm #146674

Misty Harrison
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Debussy En Bateau transcription and others on Yolanda Kondanassis cd “Pictures of the Floating World” meaning songs about water
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