Want to get started playing the harp' This book will show you how. Written explanations and plenty of songs help you play right away. You???re introduced to the symbols used in harp music the basics of note reading and fingering.There are new pieces old pieces silly pieces and serious pieces for you to play. And there is a part showing you how to care for your harp and replace strings. Take this book home and learn on your own or take it to a teacherand get some specialized help. It works both ways!

This beautiful emotional prayerful entreaty from Les Misérables has been arranged for lever or pedal harp by Sylvia Woods. It is in the key of G (1 sharp) with several D# lever changes. Fingerings and lyrics are included as well as lever and pedal changes. This 4-page arrangement is for lower intermediate to intermediate players. The range required is 22 strings from the G that is 10 strings below middle C up to the G 11 strings above middle C. The final chord has a higher B but it can be omitted if necessary.

Before the 1700s Celtic music was kept alive through the long oral tradition of learning and memorizing tunes without the aid of pen and paper. This collection by Star Edwards features pieces found inhistorical collections dating from the late 1700s and 1800s. These fresh vibrant melodies connect us to our ancestors' desire to capture the distinctive qualities of native traditional music. Suitable for advanced beginnersto intermediate level Harp players the Celtic Harp Anthology is a compilation from twenty-one collections that were the proud work of spirited countrymen and women. Within these pages you will find the strainsof music that filled gleaming white-thatched homes with joy and boundless energy. Connect with the heart and soul of a timeless culture and experience the music that eased the hardships of living.  This book isdesigned for use with lever folk Harps (or pedal Harps) that have thirty-three strings or less with G (one and a half octaves below middle C) as their lowest note in the keys of F C G D and A. The tunes are appropriate fornylon or wire-strung Harps and two songs require lever flips.

This collection of 21 charming seasonal tunes arranged for the Solo Harp by Stephanie Claussen proves to be an excellent addition to your gig bag. Light so Brilliant promises to keep the holidayspirits high with classics such as;'The Holly and the Ivy''Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence''O Come O Come Emmanuel''God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen'These arrangements contain variationsthe intermediate through to advanced Harpists will find both challenging and satisfying. The entire collection can be performed cover-to-cover in fifty-five minutes. Contains dynamics chords and fingering suggestions. Suitablefor lever Harps with 33 strings or more.

For harpists orchestrators and arrangers. Emphasis is placed on the use of the pedals reading notes and finding the corresponding strings on the instrument.

Sonata for Flute Viola and Harp-The middle work in the three late chamber music sonatas was composed in spring 1915 directly after the Cello sonata (HN 633). The innovative combination of sounds a Wind instrument a Stringed instrument and a Pluckedinstrument greatly contributes to the impression of restrained melancholy. Debussy himself confirmed it saying: ?It is terribly sad. And I do not know whether one should laugh or cry about it? Perhaps both at the sametime?? On another occasion he emphasised the similarities with his own compositional style of the 1890s remarking of the sonata: ?It reminds me of a very old Claude Debussy the one of the Nocturnes?.

Par PART ARVO. Chad Smith, Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has long nurtured the desire to commission a new work by Arvo Pärt. When the Los Angeles Philharmonic submitted this idea to Arvo Pärt in February 2007, the suggestion came at precisely the right moment. Pärt was working at that time with an ancient canon in Church Slavonic containing a prayer to a guardian angel - the connection to 'Los Angeles' was irresistible. Pärt was further inspired to take the commission by the idea of seeing this work performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, one of the best orchestras in the world, under its music director Esa-Pekka Salonen, and in the Walt Disney Concert Hall, one of the most exciting concert buildings of our time. The Canberra International Music Festival / Ars Musica Australis and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music joined the project as co-commissioners, thanks to the committed work of director Chris Latham. It may come as a surprise that it has taken so long (37 years) for Pärt to produce his fourth symphony. Symphony No. 3 emerged in 1971, in a time of transition before Pärt had fully developed the 'Tintinnabuli style' which he still employs today. Since developing this style, Pärt has not written any orchestral works which could be called 'symphonic' in scope or structure. With Symphony No. 4, which he calls 'Los Angeles', he creates a reference to this essential phase in his compositional life. Symphony No. 4 incorporates Pärt's 'These Words…' for string orchestra, which was premiered in May 2008 in Copenhagen. As was previously seen in some of Pärt's early instrumental works, all parameters of the text (number of syllables, inflection, punctuation etc) play a decisive role in the structure of the composition. Arvo Pärt has dedicated Symphony No. 4 'Los Angeles' to Mikhail Khodorkovsky./ Répertoire / Orchestre à Cordes, Harpe, Timbales et Percussion

for Harp Flute Clarinet and String Quartet-In June 1905 Ravel told a friend shortly before setting off on a long holiday: ?I was terribly busy because of a piece for harp commissioned by the Érard company. I was able to finish it after a fashion thanks to 8 days ofdogged work and three sleepless nights?. But the piece itself shows nothing of the haste in which it was written. In fact it seems as if Ravel knew how to explore all the musical possibilities of the harp in this brief buthighly striking piece. This septet with its unusual combination of instruments is a further enrichment of Henle?s Urtext editions of Ravel?s chamber music.