product id: 3073
Arrangement: harp (folk/celtic)
Product type: Methods
Media: Book
Pages: 208
Author: Janna McCall Geller and Mallory Geller
Language: English
Expected shipping time: 14 days
Price: 26.95 euro Written in a supportive, easy-to-follow style, this big book covers just about everything of interest to harpers, beginning through advanced, and is recommended by players and teachers as an excellent tool to better understand your instrument. It combines a reference on such topics as types of harps, maintenance, harmony and chords, ear playing, arranging, singing, improvising, instructions on how to simplify and personalize the music to suit your playing level and much more with a full range of harp arrangements from Celtic to Classic, including a special emphasis on Renaissance music. The 46 titles include Ash Grove, Greensleeves, Danny Boy, Gymnopedie No.3, Cielito Lindo, Amazing Grace, and more, with complete lyrics.
Contents:
- The Purpose of This Book
- Introduction
- The Magic of the Harp
- What, Exactly, is a Folk Harp?
- How to Use This Book
- If this is your first musical instrument
- If you have some background - any background - in music
- If you are coming to the harp from the keyboard
- If you are coming to the harp from the guitar
- Part One: Harp Basics
- Overview of Folk Harp History and Construction
- by Tim McCurdy
- More Harp Basics
- What Kind of Harp is for You?
- The Neo-Celtic Harp
- The Wire Celtic Harp
- The Lever Harp
- Pre-pedal Harps
- The Lyre
- Historical Recreations of Ancient Harps
- The Latin Harps
- What to Look for When Buying a Harp
- Size and Range
- String Spacing and Tension
- The Look of the Harp
- Your Gut Feelings
- Can I Teach Myself to Play or Do I Need a Teacher?
- Part Two: Getting Started
- Tuning Your Harp
- Basic and Alternate Tunings
- Caring for Your Harp
- Humidity, Heat, and Other Dangers
- Basic Harp Maintenance
- Replacing Strings
- Holding Your Harp
- The Floor Harp
- The Lap Harp
- Lyres
- The Wire Celtic Harp
- Fashion Note
- Part Three: Making Music
- Basic Playing Techniques
- The Harmony of Harp Music
- Introduction to Scales and Chords
- The Basic Scales and Modes
- The Tonic, Dominant, and Sub-dominant Chords
- Working with Chord Symbols
- Free Form Music
- The Glissando
- The Color Coded Strings
- Melodies
- Thirds
- Chords
- Introduction to Ear Playing
- Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and other simple melodies
- Adding Harmony
- Singing or Accompanying with Your Harp
- Playing Duets and in Ensembles
- Adapting Non-Harp Music
- Keyboard Music
- Other Sources for Music
- Part Four: Exercises, Songs and Harping
- Exercises
- Placing
- Oh, How Lovely is the Evening
- Scales
- Being Creative with Chords
- Arpeggios
- About the Songs and Music in Exploring the Folk Harp
- Some Words About the Selections
- Hints on Studying and Playing the Music
- Ballads and Folk Songs
- Barbara Allen
Wayfaring Stranger
Shalom Chaverim
The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry
Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
Raggle-Taggle Gypsies-O
Ash Grove
Amazing Grace
Cielito Lindo
Scarborough Fair
I Know Where I'm Going
The Lichtbob's Lassie
Danny Boy
Londonderry Air
Jock o'Hazeldean
Red River Valley
Annie Laurie
La Paloma
Auld Lang Syne
The Parting Glass
- Songs from the English Renaissance
- Developing Historical Sense and Style by Jon Lackey
- About the Renaissance Songs in this Section: Some Notes from the Arranger
- About the Adaptations of These Songs
- Greensleeves (original and harp adaptation)
The Old Year Now Away is Fled
What Child is This? (words are Victorian)
Fortune My Foe
The Hunt Is Up
Three Ravens
Lord Willoughby
Essex's Last Goodnight (two versions)
The Spanish Lady
Pastime With Good Company
In the Glade
Ding Dong Merrily on High
Yonder Comes a Courteous Knight
- Some Famous Composers
- Bartók, Mikrokosmos #3, #16, #22
- Beethoven, Russian Folk Song (original and transposed for small harp)
- Mozart, Leopold, Minuet
- Telemann, Minuet
- Satie, Gymnopédie No. 3
- Carolan, Blind Mary; Separation of Soul and Body
- Appendix
- Appendix One: The Wire Strung Harp
- by Dinah LeHoven
- Appendix Two: The Pedal Harp
- Appendix Three: Should You Build Your Own Harp?
- From a Kit
- From Scratch
- Appendix Four: Amplifying Your Harp
- Appendix Five: How to Sing Properly
- by Veronica Diamond
- Appendix Six: Tuning by Ear
- Appendix Seven: Music Reading Basics
- Appendix Eight: Reading Chord Symbols
- Bibliography
- Resources
- Index of Songs
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