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Jaydg, ring him and ask him to get the part to you, or a good photocopy. You don’t have time to mess about, he should know harps can’t sight read everything and anyway you might need to erase and correct pedalling marks to suit yourself. Alison
Helen, please send me your email address as all I got is the noreply@harpcolumn.com thanks Alison
Finally, I have come across a very useful orchestral part in just one and a half pages from the overture of Khovanshchina by Mussorgsky, which starts with 4-5 #’s, then 2 #’s with accidentals/pedalling, then into 6-7 #’s & suddenly to 5 b’s, (although I notice only 2 b’s are necessary) and since the part is pretty simple to look at, the learning points I wanted are there. We can print the part and look at the score online and listen to the recording, so for teaching it’s surprisingly relevant to demonstrate the approach and logic involved in pedalling a part.
https://imslp.org/wiki/Khovanshchina_(Mussorgsky,_Modest)Incidentally a Russian pianist asked me last week whether we ever use all these sharps and I was able to say categorically yes and cite this example, the title of which she was better able to pronounce !!
Is there a messaging system on harp column which would allow me to reply directly to an individual & attach pdf files ?
Jackie, whilst I received your email, it came through the harp column website with a noreply@harpcolumn.com email address. Please send me your email address so that I can get this part to you promptly. Regards Alison
Yes he wanted the harp doubled, I think splitting the part is fine but doubling would be too erratic.
Ah but without losing anything, we reworked it, ostensibly to finger the melody lines and to get rid of the view of the voiced parts which made it so difficult to read.
It was on the radio today, then annoyingly the telephone went, so I listened to it later on a CD.So far, I have only one piece requiring a G natural in 30 years of playing.
A single action on the low 7th D would be marvellous, but has never come to fruition.There are active recorder groups on facebook, probably more than one:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/recorderplayersenthusiastsCited by Phillipa above…
Play It Again by Alan Rusbridger (2011)I came across this too:
https://goodmorningbritten.wordpress.com/category/listening-to-britten/Listening to Britten – Bird Scarer’s Song
Listening to Britten – The False Knight upon the Road
Listening to Britten – Dafydd Y Garreg Wen (David of the White Rock)
Listening to Britten – Bugeilio’r Gwenith Gwyn (I was lonely and forlorn)
Listening to Britten – Bonny at Morn (with harp)
Listening to Britten – Lemady
Listening to Britten – She’s like the swallow
Listening to Britten – Lord! I Married Me A Wife
Listening to Britten – A Birthday Hansel, Op.92and more……..
and The Owl and the Pussycat, great composition by Sue Rothstein on Edward Lear’s poem (which I read to a 5 year old recently).
