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I love food gardening, so each year I have a small harvest of peas, beans, tomatoes, chard. In the ground are blueberries, raspberries, strawberries. In large container pots are cherries and 1 fig. It’s a fun hobby and it gets me outside in the fresh air, in our short warm season of the Pacific Northwest
Hi Curly, In Nancy Gustavson’s small harp collection The Magic Road, is a wonderful mid-Eastern piece, Moorish Garden. It’s in English and Australian syllabi lists, intermediate level, and Susana Remenyi of Toronto recorded it on a LP I have, around 1968. Perfect
If you are able to skip taking Music Theory at an institution, by qualifying in that field by an exam or demonstrating your knowledge, instead look at http://www.musictheory.net. My adult employed student, already proficient in important works like Gliere and Handel, found that she can learn things there that her previous teachers failed to tell her, and she is happily working through theory knowledge on the internet instead.
Laura, Yes, my version is also the one from Lyra, with the Von Wurtzler cadenza, copyright 1968. You could find a list of most publishers of harp music, perhaps online, and find from their catalogues whether there exists another publication of this concerto, which is for harp and strings. Possibly someone has recorded this concerto, and a search could reveal where to find the recording; the information in print might reveal a different arranger, or at least a different cadenza arranger. Kathleen Bride, harp professor at Eastman School of Music, would be a very good source of information, and the esteemed Sibley Musical Library is located in that institution.
Ron Konzak made beautiful small carved harps patterned after the famous Brian Boru harp displayed at Trinity College in Dublin. Unlike the original, they had 25 nylon strings, and the string spacing of a classic concert harp. The dimensions were 31 inches high, and 12 inches wide. The tone was rich and long lasting.
Audrey, think about making for yourself a practice “harp” that can be packed flat, no larger than your suitcase, or even foldable to give you twice the range.
Hi Curly,
“Music for Treble Voices with Harp Accompaniment” was published in American Harp Journal, Summer, 1975, by Julia S. Anderson.It looks very interesting and if you need it I’ll get the 4 pages of the list to you. Another compilation: Repertoire for Voice and Harp by Helen Watkins, with foreword by Professor David Watkins, published in July 1999, 24 pages of lists and suggestion, spiral bound. For an individual volume that I have and never used, “Songs of the Irish Harpers” collected and arranged for voice and harp or piano by C. Milligan Fox, published by Lyra Music, now in Florida. Contains beautiful arrangements of thirteen songs such as The Foggy Dew, The Red Haired Girl, Men of Connaught, Farewell, My Gentle Harp, and others. I hope this helps.
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Jennifer, yes, in A Harp in the School, on page 29, I quote: “AHS Education Project 2000 ( published by the American Harp Society): This is a listing of pieces of published music for school ensembles (grades 1 through 12) that include harp parts. The music listed includes string ensembles, orchestral works,as well as selections for band and choir. The listing includes publisher information,
Audrey, Louise Trotter , at http://www.louisetrotter.com, has given workshops internationally and helped many people learn useful bass patterns. Of her many publications, at least four have pages of examples showing the type of patterns you asked about. In First Steps to Harp Improvisation, including recording, see pages 2 and 3. In Easy Fake Book for Lever Harp (pub. by Lyon and Healy) see page 4. In Getting Started in Pop Harp, page 11 and others throughout. In The Creative Folk Harpist, Arranging and Performing, page 14 and many more throughout the book. Browse and pick one or several, and if Louise offers a workshop near you, try to attend; you’ll come away a better player, I promise!
Diane, in 2006 the American String Teachers Association published “A Harp in the School: A Guide for School Ensemble Directors and Harpists.” It’s a 75 page spiral-bound book edited by Chelcy Bowles, PhD.,with chapters contributed by
