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Debussy Danse Sacree et Profane. My teacher Ernestine Stoop has the most beautiful recording. For more of my favourite pieces: http://homepages.go.com/~musliston/musliston.html
Other: Haydn fantasie, Spohr fantasie, Bach Italian concerto Andante (so beautiful: even more beautiful on harp than on harpsichord)GLinka Nocturne
Tournier Au matin
Godefroid etude de concert
Mozart harp-flute concerto
I understand Pierne is your dream piece, I just have played it….lovely piece to play indeed!
Oh, I remember a lovely piece, not really difficult, but a beautiful theme: John Thomas: Watching the WheatI have been teaching one student in particular for a year who
also, surprise surprise, finds it very difficult commit to practising.
She is lucky to get cramming time in the night before her lesson!
I was very frustrated by this at first, but I have come to realise that
harp lessons for her are a form of therapy.
Classics on Request by Barbara Brundage has some very lovely pieces in it, some of which aren’t too hard and all of which sound much more challenging than they really are.
It depends on what kind of music you play. In a nutshell, (and there’s a lot more history to this, which would take days to recount here-musicologists do their dissertations on topics like this), Pythagorean tuning (mean-tone temperment), which uses pure 5ths & 4ths in a diatonic scale, is appropriate for early music.
Hello Mary Umbarger
I play a 26-string lever harp and have a new carryable lever harp ordered and due to arrive in May.
What are alternative tunings?
Flippy, I posted “favorite pieces” and am now posting kind of the same quesion, just in a more urgent fashion. You could delete “Favorite pieces” if you want. And thanks for your reply. I did order Impromptu Caprice and look forward to playing it, but it is a few levels too advanced and I’m also looking for music more on my level.
ThanksHi! I got online tonight to ask the same question. I’ve been playing for 3 years (after 4 of piano) and I’m 16. I just played 2 wonderful pieces, though I don’t really know your level. Le Petite Suite Classique by Grandjany, and Presque Rien by Tedeschi. The pieces I will be working on next, if no one else gives me suggestions, are the Passacaille mentioned above and the Dusik Sonatinas. My dream piece is Impromptu Caprice by Pierne, but I’m not yet at that level. La Source by Hasselmans is also on my list, but my teacher thinks it’s also too hard.
You can probable get these pieces from http://www.vanderbiltmusic.com or Lyon & Healy (their website is probably http://www.lyonhealy.com)
Also, look into some etudes. I like the Universal Method for the Harp by Bochsa-Oberthuer and Pozzoli’s Studi Di Media Difficolta.
Much luck!
RafaellaHi Carolyn,
You can try to find the information about audition pieces for music school in Japan. Usually there is a list for each level and that could be an easy guideline to look at. Or, you can try to get the list of American Harp Society competition. There are different levels to choose and you can also have the idea what kind of music harp students are playing here in US. If you can provide the titles of the music that you have worked, we can probably come up with some kind of list for you to check with your local music store.
I have a Venus Paragon and also played L&H 23, plus Salvi Minerva for about 12 years. I spent almost the same amount of time on each of them. To me, the Paragon and LH23 are not much different. But I also played on other’s LH23, it’s really personal. Each harp developed different sound according to the owner. I know you are asking about Venus Tradition and LH17. LH got more chance when you might want to sell it in the future. Moneywise, you can have more than one harp. One for gigs, like parties. The other one for orchestra or solo recital. Venus is cheaper, but it doesn’t mean bad. Just something you can afford to haul around. By the way, how old is your daughter? I know some young harpists don’t know how to take good care of their instruments. Make sure to let her understand, the better you treat your instrument, the better sound you will have.
Since you played Tchaikowsky, Johann Strauss got many beautiful waltz and many harp solo with other instruments. Not too hard to play for any school orchestra. Show pieces from movies, Broadway musical are good choices too. “Manon Lescaut” intermezzo is like the Intermezzo from Cavaliar Rusticana by Mascagni. Have fun.
