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I haven’t played a lot of pop but I love What a Wonderful World arranged by Paul Baker! It’s a good crowd pleaser too. 🙂
kathryn-yParticipantI’d love to see some responses to this too as my sister plays piano. There are a couple of arrangements that I know of and have tried:
Beethoven Aria & Variations – http://harpconnection.com/store/product.php?query=piano&sku=400-102-349&itemRedir=http%3A%2F%2Fharpconnection.com%2Fstore%2Fsearch.php%3Fquery%3Dpiano%23A400-102-349
kathryn-yParticipantDeborah Henson Conant’s “Nataliana” is a crowd pleaser, slightly more advanced and impressive sounding, not mention loads of fun to play. 🙂
kathryn-yParticipantI taught myself for 3 years before starting lessons, and I have had to break a LOT of bad habits. I’ve had to relearn keeping my thumbs up and the rest of my fingers pointing downwards; CLOSING after every note in a relaxed way (flat into the palm, not curling fingers tensely); placing firmly and confidently instead of spider crawling and catching notes on the fly; elbows up. When I have a hard or fast piece which requires a lot of concentration on the notes themselves I still tend to revert to my old problems (I have been taking lessons for 2 years now). I would say do everything you can to find a good teacher if you possibly can! If not, the others’ suggestions of getting DVDs are good, so that you have something to compare yourself to.
kathryn-yParticipantMy teacher had me do the pedal exercises in “On Playing the Harp” by Yolanda Kondonassis. The book covers a lot more than that, as well.
kathryn-yParticipantThe ones you mentioned are from Songs and Carols for Two by Jane Weidensaul: http://harpconnection.com/store/product.php?query=weidensaul&sku=400-102-830&itemRedir=http%3A%2F%2Fharpconnection.com%2Fstore%2Fsearch.php%3Fquery%3Dweidensaul%23A400-102-830
kathryn-yParticipantBelow are a couple of fun ones – I’m not sure how advanced you are looking for, but both of these have 3 parts and 3 levels.
A Virginia Sampler arr. Ray Pool – http://harpconnection.com/store/product.php?query=virginia+sampler&sku=400-1157&itemRedir=http%3A%2F%2Fharpconnection.com%2Fstore%2Fsearch.php%3Fquery%3Dvirginia%2Bsampler%23A400-1157
Canon in D arr. Julie Gaisford Keyes – http://harpconnection.com/store/product.php?query=canon+in+d&sku=400-1793&itemRedir=http%3A%2F%2Fharpconnection.com%2Fstore%2Fsearch.php%3Fquery%3Dcanon%2Bin%2Bd%23A400-1793
kathryn-yParticipantDeborah Henson-Conant’s “The Nightengale” works nicely with the violin playing the voice part of the harp/voice arrangement. It’s very pretty and a good crowd-pleaser! http://www.harpcenter.com/product/pdf-download-henson-conant-nightingale/ (PDF download)
kathryn-yParticipantI’m not sure about actual laws, but I do know that we had a video on our channel of a friend dancing to a soundtrack and we received an email from YouTube telling us we had to remove it because of copyrights. So to a certain extent they are on top of things, though it’s probably harder for them when it is live music vs. a recording that is easily recognizable (if that makes sense).
Also if you can’t find information, when you post to your channel make sure you credit the composer/arranger, etc. in the description and you can also add something like, “Any copyright infringement is unintentional, and will be remedied immediately.” So if someone contacts you and asks you to remove it, you will.kathryn-yParticipantI’ve never played on any of the harps you mentioned so I can’t provide feedback on those; but I started on a 27-string harp from Harps of Praise and it had a really beautiful tone, especially for the size: http://www.harpsofpraisehf.com/harps/celestial_lap_harp.php
The price is also lower than what you mentioned (including Truitt levers). Worth checking out!December 11, 2012 at 1:26 am in reply to: Suggestions for music for a Jane Austen themed evening #61332kathryn-yParticipantHornpipe (also known by its dance title Hole in the Wall – page 14 in the Friou book below) and Rondeau by Purcell are both lovely dance tunes and are used in several of the Jane Austen movies (would probably be familiar to a Jane Austen movie fan). Both pieces are in Baroque Music for the Harp by Deborah Friou (which also has other pieces that would work well): http://www.harpconnection.com/store/product.php?query=deborah+friou&sku=400-1227&itemRedir=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harpconnection.com%2Fstore%2Fsearch.php%3Fquery%3Ddeborah%2Bfriou%23A400-1227
They are fairly simple arrangements but pretty!The Jane Austen movie soundtrack music would be nice, though not all of them would be that great as performance pieces (perhaps more suited to background). Some are though!
Sounds like a really fun gig!
kathryn-yParticipantI loved going to the L&H harp factory… the tour (which I believe they only give at noon on Fridays) was fascinating, and the harp showroom is amazing. The showroom is my favorite because you can play any or all of the harps!
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