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Hi Anna! I’m Anna too
I live in Italy, and I understand what you mean about prices of DustyStrings and Lyon&Healy.I don’t like Perfomance levers at all, they make the strings broke earlier than other levers.
I like the sound, but it hasn’t got enough sustain, as for me.
It seems that the Internet should be a great resource to learn about new music, as well as, or in conjunction with traditional methods such as sheet music stores, libraries and catalogues or reference books. On the web you’ve got personal websites of composers that you would have to probably rely on a search engine to pick up if you didn’t already know who they were. There are also websites of national composers’ agencies etc.
I wrote a trio for flute, viola and harp in 2004 called “Terrestrial Mirror” and naturally as composer I feel that it’s worth learning! But no doubt your question is directed to other harpists to get their opinions on repertoire they’ve been in contact with. The good news (for me) is that my trio is going to be performed and recorded soon by a group with a professional harpist (Delphine Latil) and flutist (Paolo Vignaroli). In fact I put the group together myself and will play viola in it, as it seemed that the work wasn’t going to get performed otherwise.
I’m interested though in the broader question of how players connect up with new music. There are times when it seems to me that there are more composers writing new music than there are performers willing to play it. As a viola player I frequent several stringed instrument forums where it seems 99% of the contributors are only interested in the traditional classical repertoire.
I could certainly have got my trio published by a publisher but that raises certain questions such as; is this the best publishing option, and, is this someone that’s going to promote it well and really get many more performances than I could in actively searching myself, as I’ll be signing away a share of the performing rights? I realise of course that if it’s not published it might not be considered valid music in some quarters. But from what’s been said here, publication itself doesn’t necessarily mean lots of players will get to know about it.
So in the meantime the score and parts for “Terrestrial Mirror” are sitting on my site and can be freely downloaded by anyone interested in playing it. I enjoyed reading “A RANT” – I’ve always thought that having a one-hour discussion with an instrumentalist over their instrument is worth many hours of reading instrumentation texts. My own composing style is quite chromatic, so concerning my own trio, rehearsing in a group with harp and getting constant feedback was really essential to the writing process.
Hi there,
I am a string orchestra teacher blessed to have two wonderful harpists – one each in my middle and high school orchestras. I have a very difficult time finding music that is appropriate level (my high school orch is small at 19 players and mostly freshman/middle school level) that includes an actual harp part. Could you email me your list of harp parts?
Here’s my email: karen@sweetcello.com
Thank you!
I suffered very bad fingers from playing the harp and tried many shelf products, in the end it was a a local product that did the trick called ‘gardeners balm’ i think it contains beeswax and other essential oils but have had nothing like it before applied it a couple of times daily before and after practicing and healed up within 3 days.
The website is http://www.gardenersbalm.co.uk/
Great!
How do you feel about sending a copy to norway? I ll wire you the money in advance. I just dont know how much it would be.
Merry Christmas! Kjersti
Hi Nina,
If you contact American Harp Journal editor you can buy copies of all old issues.
About C.P.E.Bach, I have the Jane Weidensaul’s edition and there is quite an interesting explanation about how to play the ornaments and how Bach wrote about them. Maybe it helps you.By the way I’m looking for information about Russian harp school for my research. Could you recommend me some books about it? I would like to have a method, it could be in russian, with pictures of hands, so that I can see the differences between for example french method and russian method. Do you know where could I buy such a method or book?
Laura and everybody,
You all have GOT to check out this person’s web-site. They make some of the most beautiful harps and instruments by hand that you ever saw. The craftsman is a scholar on all forms of harp: I’m sure that he could help. Try it: http://www.folcharp.com
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I’ve just visited this forum. Happy to get acquainted with you. Thanks.__________________
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