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 playing vibrant melodies instead of repetitive or trite exercises. This book features traditional Irish Scottish Welsh Canadian American and Renaissance music. These songs will transport anddelight 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 readingmethods based on logical predictable music patterns that employ cutting edge techniques. They were developed to move students beyond reading notes as single isolated symbols. The rhythm table compares the different note valuesand 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 allowingthem to avoid tension in their hands and prevent injury. Accompanying audio allows them to play along as they learn. Includes access to online audio.

Par KNOCKAERT PETER. Micantia is the Latin word for ?things that are twinkling/shimmering/shining/sparkling, ...?.. The inspiration for this piece is found in many sudden observations of beautiful sceneries like sunbeams shining through clouds, snow crystals in winter time or icy landscapes. In a way too hasty world, the piece is meant to slow down a little and give you a moment of reflection on how mesmerizing the world is around us. / Date parution : 2022-11-29/ Recueil / Harpe

Reduced Version-The Full Score of Eventide the epic composition inspired by the story of Edith Cavell compiled from texts relating to her imprisonment composed by the great Patrick Hawes. This is the reduced version scored for Soprano SATB Chorus Unison Semi-Chorus Trumpet Harp Organ and Strings. This work is dedicated to Sheringham and Cromer Choral Society and Gresham's Holt who first performed this work in Norwich Cathedral on the 12th of July 2014 to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War.  Lasting around 45 minutes this large-scale work has the subtitle 'In Memoriam Edith Cavell' who is commemorated here as a nurse to German and British wounded who went on to provide refuge to escaped and lost British soldiers who were enabled by her to return to England. As a result of this she was arrested for 'treason' and condemned to death. While in prison her only possessions were her Bible her Book of Common Prayer and a copy of the Imitation of Christ. The libretto as compiled by Andrew Hawes is made up of extracts from these books as well as other materials relating to her final days.  This tribute to a brave and courageous life is fitting for a composition commemorating the First World War. The tragedy and pathos surrounding Cavell's life is hard for us to understand but by placing words so personal to her in the context of a piece of beautiful music it forces us to think and remember while also condemning the actions of so many figures of authority on an innocent and pious nurse during that horrific period. 

Par LIANG LEI. In traditional Asian landscape paintings, we often discuss two complimentary aspects: brush and ink. Piano, in this composition, serves as the 'brush', and the percussion quartet, the 'ink'. Following earlier works such as Brush-Stroke, Aural Hypothesis and Harp Concerto, Inkscape continues to explore the relationship between ink painting, calligraphy and composition. Lei Liang/ Répertoire / Quatuor de Percussions et Piano

June Armstrong's Strangford Sketchbook contains eight pieces for the Piano, inspired by the Irish sea inlet of Strangford Lough.'The Ards Peninsula and Strangford Lough have always been one of my favourite parts of Ireland. These eight pieces explore the expressive and atmospheric ranges of the Piano, and also seek to evoke the beauty of the landscape through resonances of Irish music.' - June ArmstrongThe pieces in this collection are of moderate difficulty, around grades 6-7 standard, and each of them is designed to introduce different elements of technical development. The Strangford Sketchbook presents a wide variety of styles and musical challenges. / Piano

American composer organist and harpsichordist Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006) studied the Organ and music theory at Phillips Academy in Andover before studying at Harvard. His Christmas Cantata is an exciting addition to the choral repertoire. Pinkham was famously moved by a concert in Andover given by the Trapp family singers in 1939 soon after they had escaped Austria. He quoted 'Here suddenly I was hearing clarity simplicity. It shaped my whole outlook.' Pinkham''s career saw him teach at the Boston Conservatory and the New England Conservatory of Music as well as being organist of King''s Chapel inBoston for 42 years. His compositions varied from symphonies to art songs althought predominantly his music was religious in nature frequently incorporating a choir and Organ. Christmas Cantata represents Pinkham''s influence of 20th-Century trends often embracing plainchant joining Stravinsky and Hindemith''s revival of early music. For all aspiring choirs seeking varied modern repertoire Christmas Cantata provides an exciting performance work.

The Full Score for Peter Maxwell Davies’ fourth in a series of ten string quartets commissioned by the Naxos Recording company first performed by the Maggini Quartet on 20th August 2004 at the Chapel of the Royal Palace Oslo Norway as part of the Olso Chamber Music Festival. Composer Note: The fourth Naxos quartet was written in January and February of 2004 with the intention of producing something lighter and much less fierce than itspredecessor an unpremeditated and spontaneous reaction to the illegal invasion of Iraq.I returned to the well-known Brueghel picture of children's games (1560 now in Vienna) which had been the inspiration for my sixthStrathclyde Concerto for flute and orchestra. These illustrations liberated my musical imagination but I feel it would limit the listener's perception to be too specific about which game relates to exactly which section of thework. Suffice it to say that there is vigorous play - leap-frog bind the devil with a cord truss wrestling - alongside quieter pastimes - masks guess whom I shall choose courting odds and evens. The single movementjuxtaposes these activities as abruptly and intimately as they occur in Brueghel. Rather as the eye is taken into different perspectives and proportions of scale within the picture taking liberties which would never be presentin for instance Brunelleschi architectural drawings so here with a constant sequence of transformation processes I have distorted the neat precise implications of modal progression expressed in the unison opening phrase(from F to B through A sharp/B flat) so that the ear is led en route into the sound equivalents of strange passageways and closed rooms: sicut exposition ludus. As work on the quartet progressed I became aware that Iwas reading into and behind the games adult motives and implications concerning aggression and war with their consequences. It was impossible to escape into innocent childhood fantasy. The nature of the F to B

13 songs with piano or guitar accompaniment. CONTENTSCape carol (E - E); Carol of the creatures (B - D); Cocks are crowing (E flat - E flat)Creator of the living (B - D); Flag of the Earth (E - E); Harvest song (D - D)In the looking glass of Francis (D - D); I used to dance before the Lord (B - E)John Bull (C sharp - E); Julian of Norwich (D - E); Pluck the rose that will not whither (C - D)A Stone for God (G - E); To the first of my lovers (D - D)

These choruses are from the composer's three-act opera Tess which is based on Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles. All three are from Act II which begins on a dairy farm on a May morning in late 19thcentury England.I. Winter is WhiteAngel Clare a budding gentleman farmer sings this song with his Harp for a gathering at the dairy. (the text is adapted from the Hardy poem 'The Seasons of HerYear.')II. AriseAct II iopens with dairymaids and men singing this chorus as they prepare for the day's work. (The text for the outer sections is based on a folksong quoted in the novel; the mkiddlesectiopn employs the Hardy poem 'Gallant's Song.')III. Come Let Us Chime (Wedding Song)Tess a country girl who came to the dairy to escape her dark past accapts Clare's proposal of marriage. Theyembrace the curtain falls and the wedding chorus is heard offstage. During the last few bars the curtain rises on the next scene - Tess and Clare in theur honeymoon cottage. (The text is by the composer.)

1001 Nights in the Harem. Par SAY FAZIL. 'My Violin Concerto consists of four movements whose inspiration is loosely connected with Scheherazade’s One Thousand and One Nights. The first movement is set inside the harem; a variety of women from the harem are introduced, each with her own different personality. The second movement is a frenzy of dance – in effect a party night with an abundance of different types of dance music. The third movement depicts the next morning and consists primarily of variations on a well-known Turkish song. The fourth movement begins dramatically, but develops during the course of the movement more and more into a reminiscence of all the previous events and the work culminates dreamily in a happy mood with sensuous oriental sounds. As appropriate for an oriental soundscape, the orchestra includes a series of Turkish percussion instruments such as a kudüm or bendir, but also glockenspiel, marimba und vibraphone, celesta and harp. It is however the solo violin which tells the story and also accompanies the listener through the entire work. The violin part is highly virtuoso and unites the four movements into an intensely atmospheric whole in which the solo violin soars off into a solo cadenza between each movement, sometimes accompanied by one of the percussion instruments. As is customary, the present piano reduction is initially intended as an aid for the study of this work, but during my tour programmes with Patricia Kopatchinskaya and Burhan Öçal we have utilised this material to create a trio version for violin, piano and percussion.' Fazil Say/ Répertoire / Violon et Piano

for soprano solo horn and large ensemble - Full Score-Five Portraits of Women is a set of songs with large ensemble derived by Aulis Sallinen from arias from three of his operas: The Red Line The King Goes Forth to France and Kullervo. Each draws a portrait of a woman compelled in her role by fate or a mission. The vocal lines differ only very slightly from their original counterparts in the operas but the revised orchestral accompaniment creates an extraordinary new soundscape as background to the arias consisting as it does of a woodwind orchestra four cellos a harp and a piano. There is also a solo French horn which acts as a sort of masculine counterweight to the female vocalist. Tuiskuaa lunta (It is stillsnowing) (from The Red Line) is the story of Riikka waiting in her snowbound cabin for the arrival of a good life-enhancing message. Carolinen häät (Caroline’s Wedding) (from The King Goes Forth to France) describes the deranged Caroline Tammatukka (Caroline with the Thick Mane) in a feverish hallucination involving the King whose arrival she awaits. The King is in fact already married but Caroline believes that he has left France for their wedding. Minä odotan sinua paimen (When we meet this evening) (from Kullervo) is the aria of the smith’s young wife who waits impatiently for the arrival of Kullervo. Itkenkö minä sinua? (How can you ask if I’ll mourn you) from the same opera describes the all-embracing love of a mother which encourages yet overrules the scorn of others for the youth. On tämä silta tehty naisista (That’s the bridge that’s made of womankind) (from The King Goes Forth to France) is the song of Caroline Iloinen [The Nice Caroline] explaining the biological eternal mission of woman as the bearer and birth-giver of life. The libretto of the opera The King Goes Forth to France is written by Paavo Haavikko; the librettos of The Red Line and Kullervo are by the composer. Five Portraits of Women was commissioned by the Finnish Radio Symphony