Par LEMAITRE DOMINIQUE. Il y a plusieurs années j'ai débuté l'écriture d'un cycle de pièces pour duos homogènes. J'ai ainsi composé Pulsars pour deux flûtes puis Orange and yellow, hommage à Morton Feldman pour deux altos, Orange and yellow II qui est une transcription pour deux violoncelles de la pièce précédente, Dans le jour loin pour deux sopranos sur un poème d'Alexis Pelletier et Séléné, hommage à Maurice Ohana pour deux guitares. Et récemment, j'ai écrit Vif-argent pour deux harpes ! D'une manière générale ces oeuvres, conçues pour deux instruments ou deux voix identiques, apparaissent comme des compositions 'stéréophoniques'. Les deux parties sont égales et sans hiérarchie et elles utilisent le même matériau en s'échangeant même des motifs. Vif-argent est l'ancien nom du mercure et j'avais sa double caractéristique - solide et fluide ou métallique et mobile - à l'esprit lorsque je composais cette partition. Sans oublier que le dieu grec Hermès (...Mercure chez les romains) est l'inventeur de la lyre ! Mais la cristallisation sur ce titre s'est définitivement produite à la lecture de cet extrait de Ulysse de Joyce dans la traduction d'Auguste Morel : «...L'ombre des forêts flottait dans la paix du matin entre la tour et la mer que regardait Stephen. Au creux de la baie et au large blanchissait la mer miroitante, éperonnée par des pieds fugaces et légers. Sein blanc de la mer nébuleuse. Les accents enlacés deux à deux. Une main cueillant les cordes de la harpe et mêlant leurs accords jumeaux. Vagues couplées du verbe, vif-argent qui vacille sur la sombre marée...» Dominique Lemaître/ Répertoire / Harpe

50 wonderful traditional and contemporary Irish melodies arranged by Sylvia Woods for both beginning and advanced hard players. Songs include: The Castle of Dromore * Cockles And Mussels * Danny Boy * The Gartan Mother's Lullaby * Killarney * Limerick Is Beautiful * My Wild Irish Rose * Sweet Rosie O'Grady * Warin' O' The Green * When Irish Eyes Are Smiling * Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral * and more. Also includes an alphabetical index and an index of first lines. Spiral bound.

Par CALTHORPE NANCY. An illustrated guide to harp playing for the beginning by Nancy Calthorpe. For the folk or non-pedal harp. Learn traditional tunes such as Baptist Johnston - Blow the Wind Southerly - and more. Walton Mfg. and UK product #WM1075. / Niveau : Débutant / Celtic/Irish - Methods / Méthode / Harpe Folk ou Celtique

Par TOURNIER MARCEL. Thème Et Variations by Marcel Tournier is a piece for advanced Harp players. Starting with a main theme of arpeggiated chords, the piece then follows with a number of variations, including chords, arpeggios, glissandos, and numerous nuances and speed variations. The piece starts in Allegro moderato, then evolving to Allegretto, Allegretto Scherzando, sometimes more energetic or quieter. This piece is great to master speed, flexibility and agility as well as the different types of nuances. Marcel Tournier (1879-1951) was a French Harpist and teacher. He studied with Alphonse Hasselmans at the ParisConservatoire and composed numerous pieces for Solo Harp: 'Russian Lullabies', 'Six Christmas', 'Four Preludes' and 'Three images, suite 1, Op. 29', among many others./ Répertoire / Harpe

This book teaches harpers step-by-step the music theory and techniques they need to make their own arrangements. Subjects covered include chords inversions keys accompaniment patterns transposing and much more. The book gives plenty of examples and includes more than 90 pieces on which the students can practice their newly gained skills as they progress through the book. Spiral-bound.

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.

Arranged for Harp-This Wedding March was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1842 as a part of his suite for Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. It is most commonly played as a wedding recessional.This sheet music includes two Harp arrangements. The first is for intermediate to advanced lever Harp players or pedal harpists. The second is a bit easier. It can be played on small Harps with 22 or more strings from C to C.

The Autoharp Owner's Manual covers autoharp maintenance conversions tuning and string schedules (both diatonic and chromatic) building your own instrument playing techniques evaluating instruments chord bar setups amplification history and much more. Each subject is addressed by a current premier musician/builder. The articles in this book have been taken from past issues of Autoharp Quarterly and have been updated to address currentinnovations problems and instruments. It is a 'must have' for every autoharp player.

Nearly two dozen romantic favorites arranged for Harp including: Evergreen From This Moment On Lady Let It Be Me Never My Love Send in the Clowns Sunrise Sunset The Prayer The Rose The Wind Beneath My Wings Through the Eyes of Love and more. Playable on lever harps and pedal harps.

A wonderful collection of 28 Celtic harp solos based on music from Ireland Scotland and Wales. Selections include: Banish Misfortune; The Cliffs of Moher; Kitty's Wedding; Guilderoy; Nyth Y Gwcw; the Mist Covered Mountains ofHome; Farewell to Williamstown; Glenlivet; Machynlleth; the Dark Isle; My Dearie; Scotch Mist; I Wish You Would Marry Me Now; Sir Watkins' Jig; Treasure of Sierra Madre; The Blackbird; The Bonnie Lass O'Bon Accord; and more. Allselections appear in grand staff notation.

This unique book of 14 lever harp arrangements includes excerpts of some of the most famous French works by Debussy and Ravel including Clair de lune The Girl with the Flaxen Hair and Pavane. The book features classicalexcerpts but there are five folk tunes and a medieval melody. The level of difficulty ranges from advanced beginner to advanced intermediate. This is a collection of some of the most beautiful French melodies and is a perfectaddition to almost every harpist’s repertoire. The arrangements all have fingering and dynamics. The keys range from two sharps to one flat but a full set of levers is needed for several of the more advanced classical excerpts.Eight of the pieces require no lever changes and five of the classical melodies require multiple lever changes.

The composer writes: 'This piece was composed using as its basis the compositional technique of serialism in which a fixed series of notes are used to make the harmonic and melodic base of a piece. I looked at the twelve Munro???s on the Isle of Skye known as The Cuillin and used their height???s to get the twelve notes required in serialism. The tallest is Sg?rr Alasdair at 992 meters and Sg?rr a??? Mhadaidh is the shortest at 918 meters. I added together the number of meters to get a single number that could be related to a note in the scale. I wrote down the scale I had chosen and assigned each Cuillin a note the heights of the Cuillin gave me the order which gave me the tune Iuse. I decided not to use a conventional scale so I put on my B and F levers which gives the scale a darker colour that I feel matches the mystery of the Cuillin. Although the technique used to achieve the scale is serial the piece itself cannot be described as a serial piece and I have allowed the music to develop more freely and organically than a system would allow.'

This companion CD will assist harp players in learning the pieces in the 50 Christmas Carols for All Harps book. Since many will want to ?play along? as they learn Sylvia has recorded most of the pieces slowerthan they are usually played and as ?straight? as possible with little or no expression or rhythmic variations. Each piece has two arrangements: (A) an easy version and (B) one that is more difficult. On theserecordings Sylvia plays version A directly followed by version B. Since the two versions can be played as a duet you can play either version along with the recording. The companion CD includes all the pieces from the book and inthe same order.