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For theory of music, especially for new players of harp, look at the site http://www.musictheory.net. It’s pretty good, free of charge, and you can do it on your own time, advancing through the levels.
Sometimes the half-step syllables are not given to a student. I had these when quite young and feel it was an advantage to be able to solfege more complicated music.
A very small correction: this model is called the Wurlitzer Starke model, after Emil O. Starke. He was in charge of the Wurlitzer harp factory for many years.. Their 1924 catalog, page 12, states: “No regulation even in the slightest degree has ever been found necessary”. Would
Mr. Milligan, I also heard John Cockerill’s recording of the Introduction and Allegro, in 1953, many times. I was on the faculty of a Missouri college, and it was in the music library located in my classroom. I almost wore that record out, I admired his playing so very much. It was good to read his name once more, for he is not mentioned in the Palkovic Bibliography,
I was told by Earl Thompson, maker of the non-pedal Linrud harps which were part fibreglas, why he set up his factory to produce harps of that kind. Mr. Thompson is now elderly and no longer produces the harps that sold so well
Kay, I have trifocals with no distinct line between the different prescriptions. I had them make the middle section (for harp music, arm’s length) rather large. Top section is for distance; bottom section for reading close text. It works rather well for playing harp. Also, I have a second pair where the whole lens is for the arm’s length prescription, that I use at performances. The first pair, I’m comfortable all day long, around the house gardening or teaching,
Bernhard Schmidt, who sometimes contributes helpful posts here, is a harpmaker in Germany and has developed a midi harp. This is his web site, where it is described: http://www.harfenbau.de/midiharp.htm.
Irina, Hush Puppies shoe company has a web site. One of their shoe models for ladies is called Angel. It’s a plain pump in several color choices, that has just the right shape toe, flexible sole, and 1 1/2 inch heel. See if it is right for you.
Yes, volumes 1 and 2 of Molnar’s exercise books, that I also use, are very good, and used to be carried by Lyon and Healy. Sometimes, imported music is too expensive to carry so they remove it from their lists.When Molnar left Austria to begin his career in Japan, he was already a fine professional harpist. He distilled the European technique for his students, into the most useful excercises for brilliant technique, and the result of his years of teaching is that Japan has produced many prizewinning harp virtuosos. Perhaps Holywell Music in England has these volumes, which must not be photocopied, of course, since Molnar is still alive.
Miso, A list entitled “Music for Violin and Harp” was available at the Lyon and Healy Music Display, at the World Harp Congress recently. This trifold leaflet has lists of compositions by Brahms, Donizetti, Saint-Saens, Spohr, Tournier, etc, and is for harpists of advanced level. Much easier
