Your favorite kind of music to play? favorite pieces?

[Sylvia]

These are mine: opera, Ave Maria (Schubert), O Holy Night, Somewhere my Love, Somewhere over the Rainbow, Amor Eterno,

[jessica-wolff]

Renaissance lute & vihuela music, Purcell, Monteverdi, Bach (J. S. & P.D.Q.), Vivaldi; Mediaeval carols; folk and ethnic music of all kinds–Greek songs in 7/8 time, Scottish, Israeli, Mexican, Russian, Sephardic-Jewish, Anglo-American. Would like to try blues and Portuguese fados on the harp.

Individual favorites? Skye Boat Song, the Great Selchie of Sule Skerry, Los Bilbilikos (La Roza Enflorese), Maria durch ein’n Dornwald Ging, Yerakina, Dodi Li, Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor (though some of the chords give me a serious headache)……..

[Karen Johns]

Most Celtic/folk music, but also some Classical, New age, and Hymns. Specifically (at this point):

Land O’ the Leal (Scottish)

Inis Oirr (‘Inisheer’, Irish)

The Water Lily (Norse)

Claire De Lune (Classical)

Gathering Dusk (New Age, Bruner)

Pie Jesu (Hymn/Popular,

[Sylvia]

Very interesting repertoire pieces!

[Pat Eisenberger]

I love to play anything Celtic – lately my favorites have been Scottish. The older the better!

[kay-lister]

Anything classical and Christian with some regular “harpy” stuff thrown in there.

Kay

[renate-kvalsvik]

Karen, can you please tell me where you found the music for Inis Oírr? I’ve been looking for it on the web but can’t seem to find it. Is the arrangement for harp? It’s one of my favourite songs, especially since Inis Oírr is one of my favourite places on Earth, and I would dearly love to be able to play it.

Renate

[Karen Johns]

Well, now that is a story within itself, and one that I’m really not at liberty to share fully. The person who sent me this music is someone I really admire and I wouldn’t want to “put her on the spot”- she gave me a copy

[Karen Johns]

It is on the session website, in the key of G. Go here:

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/211

Now, there are no chord notations, but they are as follows:

G-Bm-C-D-G-Bm-C-G (repeat)

C-Bm-C-Em-C-Bm-C-G

C-Bm-C-Em-C-Bm-D-G

Feel free to make this your own by adding rolled chords, arpeggios on the dramatic Em chord in the last line, etc. I don’t believe it’s possible for me to ever tire of this particular tune.

Karen

[renate-kvalsvik]

Thanks, Karen 🙂 I’ll see if I can make my own arrangement from this.

[Jessica A]

I like to play show tunes and pop tunes, especially Love Story and From this Moment.

[deb-l]

My favorites right now are Marie Dhall (Blind Mary), Morrison’s Jig, Valse des Ondines, Foggie Dew.

[michael-rockowitz]

Renate, Karen,

Since Renate directed me to a tune I thoroughly enjoyed in the past (Nightingale, by D. Henson-Conant) I thought I’d check out this other tune she likes -“Inis Oirr- I find I also like that very much.

Karen, the chords you’ve given don’t fit the versions I’ve encountered.

[michael-rockowitz]

Karen,
I played with your chords, they’re also very pretty for the melody.

[Karen Johns]

There are many different versions of Inis Oirr on youtube (boggles the mind). The version I play is much slower than Fairy Harper’s, and in essence more poignant and dramatic. I don’t like this melody as well when played straight, with no inflection or emotion.

The chords I posted fit the key of G. The melody link I posted is free to all through The Session website, so I’m pretty sure I’m not violating any copyright laws there.

I’m simply not talented enough to pick out chords by ear, but I can figure them out if given time. Hats off to those who can .

It’s nice you posted an additional chord progression in the key of C. Those harpers without levers should find this useful. It is truly a beautiful melody, and when my Dragonheart has settled in this may be the first song I record on it. Showing how I play this song would probably be more helpful than describing it.

Karen

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