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Walking a Poodle in Yoyogi Park

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Tamsin Dearnley’s “Walking a Poodle in Yoyogi Park” is an original work for two lever or pedal harps. Says the arranger, “Written as an homage to the wonderful 5/4 swing feel of the jazz standard ‘Take 5,’ the music has a very carefree, playful feel to it, which reminded me of hanging out in Yoyogi park in Tokyo on Sunday afternoons, where all the elegant women would walk their toy dogs, including a lot of poodles!” Scroll down for additional notes from the composer.

This piece is available as a PDF download for $8.00.
(Includes score and both parts.)

Pages to print: parts are 2 pgs.; score is 4 pgs.

Duration: 5:30

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The video shows the written out part of the score (up to around 2:00) – the improvisation after that is not notated: the player can use their imagination to improvise as ambitiously or as simply as they like, depending on their skill level (and mood!).

In this arrangement, one harp plays the 5/4 groove, the other the melody in octaves, although of course the parts could swap over on a repeat.

Although the time signature is unusual and the rhythm a little tricky, neither part is technically difficult to play and on a lever harp there are no lever changes required (a pedal harp would need to change one pedal to shift between the chords; on a lever harp the levers can be set and left alone throughout).

 

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