Writing for harp

[Saul Davis Zlatkovski]

I do not think one can compose seriously “in the new manner.” You have to have sounds in your ear, not in the computer’s synthesizer playback. It will mislead you. You can use a piano for consulation, but you must think about the acoustics of the harp, how the strings ring and what happens to the overtones. You should study fine harp music to see how it is written. Look at the Glinka Nocturne, the Debussy orchestra parts, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky. What is in your library? Do they have any harp music you can study? I also recommend studying some piano music that is transcribed for harp to see how it needs to be adjusted, preferably Salzedo’s transcriptions as he was the master of piano as well as harp. The recent collection published by Carl Fischer with Yolanda Kondonassis would be of great guidance. You can also look at Clair de Lune and how Salzedo made harpistic adjustments.

If you try to learn the harp and don’t learn it well, it will ruin your efforts. You do not need harp lessons, you need lessons in harp music. You might also look at the music of

[unknown-user]

Thanks for the good reply. And now! yes that is a new way of composing but it only make me write the notes on the easyer way.Everything else is the same. It is not
like I randomly writed notes and then without any thinking make the song. First I
have the sound in my head and then in the computer or on the paper if you prefered.
But now I see that

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