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Balfour, but there’s always Bb major, obviously you haven’t read my ‘Strange but True’ story in the magazine…!!
Like tailored clothes, covers are made to fit specific harps and you will find that even for harps of a comparable size, the shape of the triangle varies significantly between manufacturers, so when you hang a cover from one make over another you find how much that triangle differs !!
It seems to me that the original has been available all along in the Billaudot edition of 1975, which didn’t cost much and so now I have a clean copy. The one I worked on is quite heavily marked up by myself, but of course one gets used to a certain layout & page turns. I love to revisit these tricky pieces to keep improving them and notice the markings.
Hi Sylvia et al, I need to encourage a pupil to start playing in orchestra with me. She’s a good reader but not a ‘quick’ player, so can you think of parts in short pieces where the 2nd harp has a reasonable amount of accessible playing, rather than hardly anything at all, otherwise they’ll be counting during all of my 1st part bars as well, so not Debussy’s l’apres midi d’un faun, possibly something more like Mahler but not such a long work… Thanks Alison
You might as well call Lyon and Healy, so be quick before they close for the holidays !!
That’s not what I meant Balfour ! With the lever harp tuned in Eb simply put levers D and G on so that the D# matches Eb and the G# matches Ab enharmonically, for a perfect Ab pentatonic scale and a delightful sound for junior pupils to discover glissandos..
and you can set the Ab pentatonic on a lever harp too, if the rest is playable, could save lugging a pedal harp……
I just spotted one about an hour into a 1950’s film ‘All about Eve’ starring Bette Davis, it was onstage in the limelight but seemed not to be used or even referred to in the dialogue.
Well, I had clean forgotten about this discussion and having just come back to this piece after a short pause of 9 years (!) I see what Carl is referring to, as the entire line, 4 systems before the end has been omitted, probably by the publishers as I can’t see why David would have removed this. So this is simply the last line on the penultimate page of the Leipzig Fr. Kistner edition which can be found on imslp.
David’s page 19 and the Kistner page 9 are identical, but go back one page and see what’s missing at the bottom.
Thank goodness for YouTube.!
Hope all’s wellPerhaps there is a country code conflict here, since Balfour has managed to write a response to Grace Wick’s posting.
Hi everybody,
I think you’ll find that quote was Mendelssohn’s who disliked the harp ! I also grew up with the tuning fork and actually once I have fixed a key note in the 3rd Octave, I am quite capable of tuning by ear, it’s quicker, it keeps my ear trained and is more enjoyable.I am certainly interested as I keep a separate box file of Tournier works and the “10 pieces” is definitely on my order list, as it will also be handy for teaching, besides which learning a new one is always engaging and handy to have in one’s repertoire. Alison
