[josh-layne]

Hey Julie, that was my mistake – it should be played as a broken octave! (As far as I know).

[josh-layne]

Thanks Biagio for emailing me about this thread! Evolène, an excellent question and I’d love to know the answer myself! I have no special knowledge of the tune, unfortunately. All I know is what’s in the Paret book, which is not very much 🙂

In the past I have tried to locate it in the Bunting collection and the oldmusicproject link that Biagio posted earlier, both with no success. I didn’t make a super rigorous search, so it’s certainly possible that it exists in the Bunting collection under another name, but I certainly couldn’t find it.

As Emma Graham mentioned, the only other place I’ve come across the tune is in Samuel Milligan’s “Fun From the First volume II” (harmonized differently). Milligan titles it as “Air” and lists O’Carolan as the composer. In addition, he says “This Air is supposed to have been a favorite of Benjamin Franklin, who was an amateur performer on the harp”. Might be worth getting in touch with him (Milligan, that is, not Franklin… 🙂 )

Regardless of the provenance of the tune, it’s a lovely melody and one of my favourites from Paret’s First Harp Book!

[josh-layne]

I recently uploaded a performance of the entire concerto (sans orchestra). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Z56hruNWA I do make a few changes to the Grandjany edition.

And here’s Grandjany himself playing it (audio only) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP_YI1zupko

Cheers,
Josh

[josh-layne]

I wear thin soled dance shoes. I normally practice in bare feet/socks, but for pieces that involve a lot of pedal changes I definitely make sure to practice in my shoes a week or two prior to a concert – it does feel slightly different.

Here’s a look at the shoes:

[josh-layne]

I like to use both my toe and my heel to change the pedals – here’s an example 🙂

(Video should launch with the start of the “action” – feel free to watch the whole episode!)

[josh-layne]

Aha, was finally able to log in to my forum account! Yes, as Lynne says, those notes are just played close to the soundboard.

Here’s the link to part one of my look at Chanson dans la Nuit – http://youtu.be/-nzWyHh2H18 Hope that’s helpful!

Cheers,
Josh

[josh-layne]

Hi Sari,

I do the ‘Harp Tuesday’ series – glad you’ve found them useful 🙂

[josh-layne]

Holly said that she’d posted something over here, so I thought I’d come and say hi!

The pedal technique is something that for me is very easy and stable, but certainly not something I would suggest or teach beginning pedal harpists.

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