ISBN 9781619118331.

Folk Harp for the Young Beginner is designed for beginning harpists with no prior musical experience. The book presents two new methods for reading notation built around recognizing common musical patterns over traditional single note reading. Each group of songs has fun, engaging exercises that will build the studentas coordination and confidence. The material draws from timeless melodies from classical, Renaissance, Celtic, English, old-time and traditional folk repertoire.Topics covered in this method include: aC/ How to tune the harp aC/ Reading music notation and counting rhythm, including two methods for reading ledger lines aC/ Recognizing basic fingering and bass patterns aC/ Changing keys with sharping levers aC/ Using brackets to help see note patterns aC/ Chord inversions Additional resources include rhythm practice and workout pages to test your musical knowledge. Helpful reference photos can also be found inside. Includes access to online audio.

24 Folk Songs and Memories is a lovely book for you and your double-strung harp. All of the arrangements include chord symbols. The book varies from early intermediate to advanced intermediate, with most of the music falling somewhere in between.

The book includes \"All the Pretty Little Horses,\" \"All Through the Night,\" \"The Ash Grove,\" \"Barbara Allen,\" \"Bicycle Built For Two,\" \"Carolan\'s Dream,\" \"Cockles and Mussels,\" \"Down By the Sally Gardens,\" \"Down in the Valley,\" \"Flow Gently, Sweet Afton,\" \"Grandfather\'s Clock,\" \"Home On the Range,\" \"Home, Sweet Home,\" \"Loch Lomond,\" \"Londonderry Aire,\" \"Long, Long Ago,\" \"My Bonnie,\" \"Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be?\", \"Oh, Shendandoah,\" \"Red River Valley,\" \"Scarborough Fair,\" \"Simple Gifts,\" \"Streets of Laredo,\" and \"Sweet Betsy From Pike.\"

I have included five sample pages so you can see what the arrangements are like. The audio sample is \"Flow Gently, Sweet Afton.\" It was digitally produced.

Folk dance and music are a large part of everyday life in parts of Scandinavia. This is a collection of seventeen Nordic songs, ballads and dance melodies,arranged with as few lever changes as possible. Scandinavian music reflects a rich tradition dating back to Viking times, with ballads, songs, song-dances, couple-dances, and set-dances.
Table of Contents:
The Willow Flute Song, Dance from Nes, Riðum, Riðum (Riding, Riding), Tantoli, Polska from Säfnäs, Young Åslaug, Schottis, Dance from Asker, Äppelbo Walking Tune (includes flute part), The Woodlands Wanderer, Josefin's Waltz, Frisell's Walking Tune, Springpols, Springleik, Reinlendar from Dovre, Nidelven, and Trollmother's Lullaby.

Everyone enjoys Celtic Folk Songs and Folk Hymns but not all realize that often they can be one and the same. A hymn text has often found its home in a folk song and a secular text sometimes finds a home in a hymn tune. This collection has a little of both. All but one of the tunes in this collection are of Celtic origin. The exception, ?Amazing Grace,? is a folk hymn of unknown origin that has all the markings of a Celtic Tune, including a pentatonic harmonic foundation.
For the harpists who also like to understand the history of a tune or even sing along, a variety of texts along with information about the tune and the lyrics can be found in the back of this book in the ?Notes on the Tunes.?

Titles: Ad Hyd y nos, Annie Laurie, Auld Lang Syne, Bunessan, Brother James' Air, Down By the Salley Gardens, Greensleeves, Iona Boat Song, Rorate (Rorate Coeli Desuper), Londonderry Air, New Britain, O Waly Waly, Slane, Scots W' Hae, The Ash Grove, Royal Oak, The Twenty-Ninth of May, St. Denio, Skye Boat Song, The Bard of Armagh, The Streets of Laredo, The Caledonian Hunt's Delight, St. Columba, The Road and the Miles to Dundee, The Rowan Tree, Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon

One of the nicest things about this book is that each song has a short but lovely introduction!

ISBN 9781619114319. First Lessons Folk Harp is designed for the beginner harp student who has no prior music training. In this book they will learn to read music notation, count rhythm, implement important fingering techniques, organize practice, tune a harp, play common bass patterns and make a decision about which kind of harp to play. Tips are included to help students get the most out of practicing. The songs serve as examples of harp basics, allowing the student to learn while playingvibrant melodies instead of repetitive or trite exercises. This book features traditional Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Canadian, American and Renaissance music. These songs will transport and delight audiences with their simplicity and profound clarity. They invite us to ancient landscapes steeped in mystery, and to experience the traditions of harping throughout the ages.This book presents two new note reading methods based on logical, predictable music patterns that employ cutting edge techniques. They were developed to move studentsbeyond reading notes as single isolated symbols. The rhythm table compares thedifferent note values and rests to each other and visually shows how they are related through counting out rhythm increments. Helpful photos define how important hand positions are on the harp. These are an immense resource for students, allowing them to avoid tension in their hands and prevent injury. Accompanying online audio allows them to play along as they learn.

This book includes 4 famous children songs arranged for 8 String Harp. Each piece has two arrangements.

Version 1: For one hand (Right hand or Left hand) without fingerings, teacher can give some performance suggestions for the students, it is suitable for the harp beginner or young harpist.

Version 2: For both hand with fingerings. It is suitable for the progressing harpist.

Contents:

1. A Tisket A Tasket

2. Animal Fair

3. Eensy Weensy Spider

4. The Bear Went Over The Mountain

The Scandinavian Harp contains 20 pieces of music from Norway, Sweden,Denmark and Finland. The music includesfolk songs, carols, two National Anthems (Norway and Sweden), the FinnishNational Hymn of Celebration and representative pieces of the NorwegianNational Composer, Edvard Grieg. Thearrangements are appropriate for a harp with 2 octaves below middle C and tunedto Eb or C. Songs in two tunings are noted with an * in Contents. The songs are very accessible and appropriatefor mid-beginner to intermediate players with limited or easy lever changes.

ISBN 9781619118560.

At the end of the eighteenth century, Edward Bunting published a major work of Irish music called A General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland (1797). He followed this publication with two more collections in 1809 and 1840. Many of the tunes in these books came from the harpers he heard performing at the Belfast Harp Festival in 1792. In the first part of his 1840 collection, Bunting described the anatural keya of the harp used by the Irish harpers as leith glass or leithghlas. The Irish harpers tuned their instrument in this key, which we would recognize as G major because it had an F sharp. Frances Thieleas Leith Glass explores the musical possibilities and sounds achievable with a single tuning on the lever harp. The collection includes nine traditional tunes from Ireland, Scotland and England that together give a sense of the many musical colors that can be produced from the leith glass tuning if we think modally like the harpers of old. Suitable for intermediate lever harp players, the arrangements are all playable on a 34-string lever harp with sharping levers on F and C (C# is only required for one of the pieces with accidentals a aMy Lagan Lovea). The lowest note used is C, two octaves below middle C.

Feast of Favorites, Vol. 2 is a lovely book for you and your harp. You need a harp with C below middle C and 24-26 strings. Larger harps can play too. These arrangements include chord symbols.The book contains 40 pages of music. The music hovers around intermediate.

You can view several sample pages above. The audio sample is an excerpt from "Fur Elise."

The book includes these sections and song titles:

The Quiet Side: "All the Pretty Little Ponies," "Sakura," "Barbara Allen," "Loch Lomond" and "Carolan's Dream."

Classical: "Merry Widow Waltz," "To a Wild Rose," "Minuett II," "O Mio Babbino Caro," "Polovtsian Dance," "Barcarolle," "Santa Lucia" and "Fur Elise."

Holiday: "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," "Infant Holy," "O Come, O Come Emmanuel," "While Shepherds Watched," "In the Bleak Midwinter" and "Toyland."

A tremendous welcome to the repertoire available to modern harpists. The double-strung harp, consisting of two parallel rows of strings, has gained popularity over the past several years, probably since the 1996 International Folk Harp Conference chaired by Laurie Riley. Included are valuable instructions on double-strung harp history, harp techniques possible on a double strung harp, doubling melodies, dividing melodies in half, overlapping chords, setting levers for accidentals, getting your hands working, repeated notes, left hand exercises, two-handed exercises, getting used to looking at the strings, and the actual arrangements themselves.

Contains:
The Rooftops of Langley, Mazurka Michel, Scarborough Fair, Dinny Delaneys, Whelan's Jig, Are You Sleeping Maggie, Slides, La Noche Pasa, Refraction, Greyhound, The Reel of Mullinavat, Fantasy on Leyenda, Noel Nouvelet, Masters in this Hall, and Carol of the Bells.

?Anthology? is a collection of fifty themes and melodies in a smart format developed by Ray Pool. It is in ?enhanced lead sheet? format that includes fully fingered melody lines, and in-depth liner notes, unlike traditional fake books. Conveniently indexed according to topic (folk, Celtic, children, hymns, spirituals, plainsong, Jewish, Christmas, opera, and classical), alphabet, and level so that no matter what, the harpist may always find his/her music. It includes four pages of basic chord progressions, and helpful performance notes. Perfect for the harpist of any type or level!
Includes: Air (?Water Music?), All Through the Night, Amazing Grace, Angels We Have Heard on High, Aura Lee, Away in a Manger, Barcarolle, Blest Be the Tie That Binds, Candle Blessing, Chanuka Chag Ya?fe, Cockles and Mussels, Creator of the Stars of Night, Down By the Salley Gardens, Eine Kleine Nacht Musik, Erev Shel Shoshanim, Fairest Lord Jesus, Hinnei Mah Tov, Humbly I Adore Thee, I Gave My Love a Cherry, I Know Where I?m Goin?, I?m a Little Teapot, Intermezzo, Jacob?s Ladder, Kum Ba Yah, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, Let Us Break Bread Together, Loch Lomond, London Bridge, Lord, I Want To Be a Christian, Lullaby (Brahms), Morning, Musetta?s Song, O! mio babbino caro, Old Hundredth, Polovetzian Dance #1, Rondo in C (Clementi), Shalom Chaverim, Sheep May Safely Graze, Shenandoah, Silent Night, Sonata in C (Haydn), Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, The Farmer in the Dell, The Harp That Once, The King of Love, This Old Man, To a Wild Rose, Traumerei, Un bel di vedremo.

Silent Night has been arranged for the mid-to-late beginner harpist. Fingering suggestions and brackets are included. It is in the key of G, making it easier to sing if desired. 2 pages. The last page features some suggestions on how to vary the accompaniment while keeping it easy and fitting for a small harp of 22-26 strings.

A tutorial for this arrangement may be found on YouTube.com/tiffanyschaeferharp.

ISBN 9781619117570.

The Harpsicle Harp method book is an excellent tool for learning to play the Harpsicle Harp or any size harp from the very beginning. No musical knowledge is necessary to use this method. All the music is written in the keys of C Major and A minor, so no sharping levers or pedals are needed. The guitar chords are displayed above the staff, so the students can add to the written music, or other instruments can accompany the harp. The music is graduated from two fingers to playing with both hands. The music is labeled to allow the students to gradually learn the notes and fingering without stress or frustration. The method contains lessons on the parts of the harp, tuning, stringing, and taking care of your instrument. Also included in the method are reading music, time signatures and counting, placing and bracketing, finger drills, and much more. There are also eighteen songs, starting from very easy and continuing to add to the music, as the student progresses. All songs have labeled notes, to help the students learn notes and fingering. Online video compliments the book, and follows up the written instructions, with video footage, so the student can visually see the method. Includes access to online video.

A collection of 21 early Baroque English dance tunes by John Playford with guitar chords. A range of only three and one-half octaves, G-C, is needed to play these user-friendly arrangements. (Keys of C, G, D: F, G, D easy lever presets).

Table of Contents:
All in a garden green, A la mode de France, Argiers or The Wedding Night, Aye me, or the Symphony, Boatman, Broom, the Bonny Broom, Chestnut, Cuckolds all in a row, Drive the cold winter away, Grimstock I & II, Half Hannikin, Heart's Ease, Irish Trot, Jenny Pluck Pears, Lull me beyond thee, Maiden Lane, Mundesse, Parson's Farewell, Ruffty Tuffty, The Slip, Upon a Summer's Day.

This collection includes the arrangement for lever or pedal harp of 3 traditional folk songs (loch lomond, the water is wide, blue bells of scotland).

Far From Home a traditional Irish reel in G major, arranged here for two harps, or harp and melody instrument.

Harp 1 is at a late intermediate/advanced level, and may also be played as a solo. Harp 2 is suitable for 26 string harp or larger, is at an early intermediate level, and may also be played as accompaniment in a session setting. Harp 2 does not contain the melody.

4 pages - includes harp parts together and both parts separate. Some fingering suggestions have been included, as well as chord symbols.