My first impression of this poem, from the 1923 Pulitzer-award-winning collection by the American poet Edna St Vincent Millay, was not of a tale of bleak circumstance but of the power of maternal love and the symbiotic relationship between instrument and player. I always loved hearing old-timers in New York referring to the \u2018old\u2019 and the \u2018new\u2019 worlds. It seems related somehow to this project which deals in the nostalgia I feel is inherent to traditional Irish and Scottish music and reflects my gratitude to my harp. It calls to mind old music-hall melodies, memories that won\u2019t dissipate, the spell-binding recitation of a beautiful woman \u2026 In essence, this tangle of words and notes is my sonic postcard home, as I stand, like so many migrant musicians before me, on the bank of the Hudson and look East.<\/p>\n
Go slowly, unveiling harmonic progressions, tuning into the rhythmic engine behind each piece, and use them as a jump-start for your own variations and explorations. I hold no claims to the exact rendering of these pieces as I wouldn\u2019t dream of playing them the same way twice. Enjoy, learn and move forward in honing your own voice as a weaver of beautiful things.<\/p>\n
The Harpweaver
\nChris Stout’s Compliments to the Bon Accord Ale House
\nAncestral Mud
\nFour-note Arpeggio Exploration
\nBrenda’s Abbey
\nThe Calm
\nSuspended 2nd and 4th chords
\nKinetic Etude
\nThe Storm
\nJumping Exercises
\nHornpipe Set
\nAn Buchaill Caol Dubh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Maeve Gilchrist\u2019s The Harpweaver<\/em> is for solo lever or pedal harp. This collection includes eight original arrangements and transcriptions from Gilchrist’s album of the same name. The collection was designed “to launch you into the greater world of music and deepen your connection to our wonderful instrument,” says Gilchrist. Scroll down for contents and notes from the composer.<\/p>\n This collection is available as a PDF download for $29.95.<\/strong><\/p>\n Length<\/em>: 65 pgs.<\/p>\n Note<\/em>: This piece is formatted for 9\u2033 x 12\u2033 paper size. Use the settings in your printer dialog box to get the best fit for your paper size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":114025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[948],"product_tag":[477],"class_list":["post-114024","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-maeve-gilchrist","product_tag-harp-solo","pa_artist-maeve-gilchrist","pa_composer-gilchrist-maeve","pa_genre-contemporary","pa_genre-folk-traditional","pa_genre-original","pa_harp-type-harp-lever","pa_instrumentation-harp-solo","pa_level-intermediate","pa_publisher-80-days-publishing","first","instock","downloadable","virtual","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"exclude_global_add_ons":[],"addons":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/114024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=114024"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=114024"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=114024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}