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I wrote some pieces specifically to be playable on lever or pedal harp, which can be found at http://www.theavondalepress.com/catalog/solos-for-lever-or-pedal-harp/ and http://www.theavondalepress.com/catalog/seasons-in-vancouver-suite/
They are from an intermediate to advanced level. Some are in the Royal Conservatory of Music Syllabus. A live performance of The Damselfly and The Downstairs Spider from the first book is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsItIe9P6yA
I hope this helps!Elizabeth,
There was a Nieweg/Bradburd edition ©1989 then a 2nd edition(©1997) with more corrections, after I was able to consult the manuscript.Reh. 9 should be notated exactly the same as Reh. 7 per the manuscript. The Nieweg/Bradburd Kalmus A3434 2nd edition(©1989 and ©1997) score and part has the correction. Both times the 32nd rest, 32nd note is correct. The original 1908 Durand Part is wrong, the original Score is correct.
-Clinton Nieweg
Thank you, Saul! After much playing of this, I had come to the conclusion that the A must be flat in bar 128, and was about to add that to this thread. You must have a newer edition than mine, if yours has the corrections included.
We are doing City Lights in October, Laura! Maybe I will get a part with your markings in them. Put in lots of cues for me!
Dear Basel, I cannot imagine what you are going through. Keep playing your harps as long as they are there with you. It must help to hear something beautiful amidst all the chaos, and it must be soothing to those around you as well. Keep some lovely tunes in your repertoire, in case you have to play for someone who might be able to influence things in your favour. You never know! Some day this will be over, and people will want to listen to music to help heal the wounds.
We are all watching the situation in Syria with horror, wishing it would end. Our thoughts are with you all the time.I wonder whether an organization such as the World Harp Congress or American Harp Society would be interested in taking the music off your hands, for distribution to schools or students who cannot afford to buy it. Or, you could put your collection on Amazon or Ebay and see what happens.
This is getting freaky..now the 2nd octave B broke at the top, several days after I had stopped worrying about it.
Wait a minute…if the guy has an English-sounding name, how can it be that his English is so bad? This sounds like a scam to me.
Now the string next to it, the 2nd octave A (gut), also broke at the bottom. It was only 6 months old. How odd!
I just found this old post from 2005, and I am so embarrassed that I fired off a response before doing my research. I’ll be more careful in future!
Actually, I replaced it from two different string bags to see if it was a bad batch of string, but both strings broke in exactly the same spot: just above the knot. They were both gut strings. After I
The N.B. in the first bar means “nota bene”. Somewhere in the book there must be a note about the muffling sounds. It probably says that the dampening symbol applies until the next symbol for natural sounds. It probably also says that the dampening only happens in the left hand. For example, in the 26th bar, where it says “con espress”, the right hand should be played legato, though the dampening continues in the left hand.
Carl is right about the octaves in the right hand. Since the strings up there are so short, the sound dies pretty quickly anyway. Salzdo’s book Method for the Harp has an excellent study on dampening, with several techniques. For example, if there is a large gap between two notes which are to be muffled, you can use a third or fourth finger, still using the palm to dampen the sound.Do you mean dampened or muffled sounds? A dampening symbol under a chord refers only to that spot, unless there is a line indicating that the dampening is to continue. I don’t have this piece in front of me, but if you could scan the page and sent it in an email, I wouldn’t mind looking at it to answer your question.
Dots above the notes mean staccato for most instruments, but sometimes in harp music they can mean a light, staccato feel instead, if it is impossible to muffle after every note.
