SKU: CF.H84
ISBN 9781491165539. UPC: 680160924530.
Marcel Tournier (1879–1951) was one of the most important harpist/composers in the history of the harp. Over his long career, he added a significant catalogue of very beautiful works to the harp repertoire. Many of his solo works, almost one hundred, have been consistently in print since they were first published. But in recent years harpist Carl Swanson has discovered a treasure trove of pieces by Tournier heretofore unknown and unpublished. These include the Déchiffrages in this edition, as well as songs set for voice, harp, and string quartet, and ensemble arrangements of some of his most beloved works.All of the works that Carl Swanson found were in manuscript only. With the help of the great harpist Catherine Michel, he has put these pieces into playable form, and they are being published for the very first time. He and Catherine often had to re-notate passages to show clearly how they could be played, adding fingerings and musical nuances, tempos, pedals, and pedal diagrams.Tournier wrote these pieces when he was in his 20s, and before he became the impressionistic composer those familiar with his work know so well. They are written in the late nineteenth-century romantic style that was being taught at that time at the Paris Conservatory. They are beautiful short, intermediate level pieces by a first rate composer, and add much needed repertoire to that level of playing.Marcel Tournier (1879–1951) was one of the most important harpist/composers in the history of the harp. He graduated from the Paris Conservatory with a first prize in harp in 1899. He also studied composition there and won a second prize in the prestigious Prix de Rome competition, as well as a first prize in the Rossini competition, another major composition competition of the day. From 1912 to 1948 he taught the harp class at the Paris Conservatory. But composition, and almost entirely, composition for the harp, was the main focus of his life. His published works, including many works for solo harp, a few for harp and other instruments, and several songs, number around one hundred pieces.In 2019, while researching Tournier for my edition MARCEL TOURNIER: 10 Pieces for Solo Harp, I discovered that there was a significant list of pieces by this composer that had never been published and were not included on any inventory of his music. Principal on this list were his déchiffrages (pronounced day-she-frahge, like the second syllable in the word garage).The word déchiffrage means sight-reading exercise, and that was their original purpose. Tournier numbered and dated these pieces, with dates ranging from 1900 to 1910, indicating that they were in all likelihood written for Alphonse Hasselmans’ class at the Paris Conservatory. Tournier was probably told how long to make each one, and how difficult. They range in length from two to four pages, with only one in the whole series extending to five, and from thirty to fifty-five measures, with only one extending to eight-five. The level of difficulty for the whole series is intermediate, with some at the easier end, and others at the middle or upper end.We don’t know if they were intended to test students trying to enter the harp class, or if they were used to test students in the class as they played their exams. The fact that they were never published means that students had to not only sight read them, but sight read them in manuscript form!I worked from digital images of the original manuscripts, which are in the private music library of a harpist in France. She had twenty-seven of these pieces, and this edition is the second in a series of three that will publish, for the first time, all of the ones that I have found thus far. The manuscripts themselves consist of little more than notes on the page: no pedals written in, no fingerings, few if any musical nuances and tempo markings, and no clear indication as to which hand plays which notes. These would have been difficult to sight read indeed! My collaborator Catherine Michel and I added musical nuances, fingerings, pedals and pedal diagrams, and tempo indications to put them into their current condition.At the time these were written, Tournier would have been in his twenties, having just graduated from the harp class himself (1899), and might still have been in the composition class. These are the earliest known pieces that he wrote, and they were written at the very beginning of a cultural revolution and upheaval in Paris that was to completely and profoundly alter musical composition. Tournier himself would eventually be caught up in this new way of composing. But not yet.All of the déchiffrages are written in the late romantic style that was being taught at that time at the Paris Conservatory. Each one is built on a clear musical idea, and the variety over the whole series makes them wonderful to listen to as well as to learn. They are also great technical lessons for intermediate level players.The obvious question is: Why didn’t Tournier publish these pieces, and why didn’t he list them on his own inventory of his music? Actually, four of them were published, with small changes, as his collection Four Preludes, Op. 16. These came from the ones that will be in volume three of this series from Carl Fischer. His first large piece, Theme and Variations, was published in 1908, and his two best known and frequently played pieces, Féerie and Au Matin, followed in 1912 and 1913 respectively. We can only speculate because there is so much still unknown about Tournier and about these unpublished pieces. He may have looked at them, fresh out of school as he was, as simply a way to make some quick money. The first several pieces that he did publish are much longer than any of the déchiffrages. So it could be that, because of their shorter length, as well as the earlier musical style that he was moving away from, he chose not to publish any more of them. We may never know the full story. But all these years later, more than a century after they were composed, we can listen to them for their own merits, and not measured against whatever else was going on at the time. The numbers on these pieces are the ones that Tournier assigned to them, and the gaps between some of the numbers suggest that there are perhaps thirty or more of these pieces still to be found, if they still exist. They will, in all likelihood, be found, as these were, in private collections of harp music, not in institutional libraries. We can only hope that more of them will be located in years to come.—Carl SwansonGlossary of French Musical TermsTournier was very precise about how he wanted his pieces played, and carefully communicated this with many musical indications. He used standard Italian words, but also used French words and phrases, and occasionally mixed both together. It is extremely important to observe and understand everything that he put on the page.Here is a list of the French words and phrases found in the pieces in this edition, with their translation.bien chanté well sung, melodiousdécidé firm, resolutediminu peu à peu becoming softer little by littleen diminuant becoming softeren riten. slowing downen se perdant dying awayGaiement gayly, lightlygracieusement gracefully, elegantlyLéger light, quickLent slowmarquez le chant emphasize the melodyModéré at a moderate tempopeu à peu animé more lively, little by littleplus lent slowerRetenu held backsans lenteur without slownesssans retinir without slowing downsec drily, abruptlysoutenu sustained, heldtrès arpegé very arpeggiatedTrès Modéré Very moderate tempoTrès peu retenu slightly held backTrès soutenu very sustainedun peu retenu slightly held back.
SKU: HL.48184050
UPC: 888680853075. 9x12 inches.
Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite No.1 BWV996 pour le Luth (Harp solo).
SKU: HL.48185326
Bruno Rossignol: Reflet orange and Reflet bleu (Harp solo).
SKU: HF.FH-1063
ISBN 9790203410638. 8.3 x 11.7 inches.
Notenbeispiele aus: 1. Orfeo (Monteverdi); 2. Kantate (Zachow); 3. Julius Caesar (Handel); 4. Orpheus (Gluck); 5. Die Geschopfe des Prometheus (Beethoven); 6. Die weisse Dame (Boieldieu); 7. Der Nordstern (Meyerbeer); 8. Otello (Rossini); 9. Don Pasquale (Donizetti); 10. Norma (Bellini); 11. Wenn ich Konig war (Adam); 12. Fausts Verdammnis (Berlioz); 13. Symphonie phantastique (Berlioz); 14. Aufforderung zum Tanz (Berlioz); 15. Jota aragonesa (Glinka); 16. Athalia (Mendelssohn-Bartholdy); 17. Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (Nicolai); 18. Das Paradies und die Peri (Schumann); 19. Des Sangers Fluch (Schumann); 20. Szenen aus Faus (Schumann); 21. Orpheus (Liszt); 22. Die Legende von der heiligen Elisabeth (Liszt); 23. Des Preludes (Liszt); 24. Dante-Symphonie (Liszt); 25. Mignon (Thomas); 26. Martha (Flotow); 27. Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen (Wagner); 28. Der fliegende Hollander (Wagner); 29. Tannhauser oder Der Sangerkrieg auf Wartburg (Wagner); 30. Lohengrin (Wagner); 31. Tristan und Isolde (Wagner); 32. Das Rheingold (Wagner); 33. Die Walkure (Wagner); 34. Siegfried (Wagner); 35. Gotterdammerung (Wagner); 36. Ein Maskenball (Verdi); 37. Stabat mater (Verdi); 38. Der Troubadour (Verdi); 39. Aida (Verdi); 40. Die Macht des Schicksals (Verdi); 41. Don Carlos (Verdi); 42. Margarethe (Gounod); 43. Ballettmusik (Gounod); 44. Hoffmanns Erzahlungen (Offenbach); 45. Symphonie Nr. I (Franck); 46. Namouna (Lalo); 47. Vysehrad (Smetana); 48. Symphonie Nr. VIII (Bruckner); 49. An der schonen blauen Donau (Strauss); 50. Fruhlingsstimmen-Walzer (Strauss); 51. Kaiserwalzer (Strauss); 52. Gesange fur Frauenchor (Brahms); 53. Ein deutsches Requiem (Brahms); 54. Nanie (Brahms); 55. Furst Igor (Borodin); 56. Coppelia-Suite (Delibes); 57. L'Arlesienne-Suite I (Bizet); 58. Carmen (Bizet); 59. L'Arlesienne-Suite II (Bizet); 60. Die Perlenfischer (Bizet); 61. Schwanensee (Tschaikowski); 62. Nussknacker-Suite (Tschaikowski); 63. Dornroschen (Tschaikowski); 64. Manfred-Symphonie (Tschaikowski); 65. Eugen Onegin (Tschaikowski); 66. Espana (Chabrier); 67. Boris Godunow (Mussorgski / Rimski-Korssakow); 68. Sonnenwendnacht (Rimski-Korssakow); 69. Russische Ostern (Rimski-Korssakow); 70. Mlada (Rimski-Korssakow); 71. Scheherezade (Rimski-Korssakow); 72. Zar Saltan (Rimski-Korssakow).
SKU: HL.48181739
UPC: 888680862275. 9x12 inches.
“Born in 1929, French composer, Pierick Houdy was a student of Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire. He led a successful career as director of many institutions and choirs, and his compositions remain known to this day, Sonata for Harp being no exception. Composed in 1983, Sonata for Harp contributes to a substantial catalogue of works by Houdy. The Sonata comprises three movements and a typical performance lasts about twelve minutes. The work is modern in style and addresses a range of technical features. Suitable for advanced harpists, Houdy's Sonata for Harp is an exciting addition to the contemporary Harp repertoire and makes for a evocative performance.&rdquo.
SKU: AP.12-0571520634
ISBN 9780571520633. English.
A Garland of Carols is a homage to Benjamin Britton's Ceremony of Carols. Written by Anthony Bolton, best known as one of the UK's most successful fund managers, it includes a translation of the traditional Portuguese carol Beijai o menino, as well as original works such as Lanterns which evokes a barren winter landscape from which we are transported to a more mystical land in the middle section. Though originally written for trebles, the carols work equally well for female voices. This is the harp part only.
SKU: HL.48181026
UPC: 888680878597.
This book, the first volume of Famous Studies for the Harp - Fifty Studies, Op. 34 by Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, was dedicated to J.B. Cramer. Edited and arranged according to Hasselmans's methods by R. Martenot, it features the studies 1 to 25 for intermediate harp players and above. This volume is followed by a second book including the studies 26 to 50. Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (1789-1856) was a musician and composer able to play the flute, the piano and the harp. He became the harpist of the Imperial Orchestra but had to move to London where he was one of the founders of the Royal Academy of Music.
SKU: HL.48181035
UPC: 888680787653. 9x12 inches.
French born harpist and composer, Marcel Grandjany (1891-1975) studied at the Paris Conservatoire before spending much of his working life in America. His Trois petites Pièces were composed in Grandjany's early career and are simple and enjoyable works, suitable for beginner harpists. Grandjany was a teacher of harp at the Julliard School for 37 years whilst also composing and transcribing many works for the instrument. Made up of three movements, Trois petites Pièces begins with a delicate Rêverie (daydream). The second piece, a Nocturne, contains variations in tempo, time signature and dynamics. The Barcarolle third movement is the most challenging of the three pieces, in 6/8 time signature and sixteenth-note flourishes. All these combined aspects of Trois petites Pièces by Grandjany make for a thrilling performance for beginner harpists.
SKU: HL.48180980
UPC: 888680878504. 9x12 inches.
Composed by the famous harpist Henriette Renié, Pine trees of Charlannes is an easy small piece for lever harp with piano or harp accompaniment. This piece for beginners is really nice to play and to start playing ensemble music. The principal harp sections feature some really melodious sections and some sections with quavers going up. It alternates these sections with the accompaniment played by the piano or a second harp. Henriette Renié was a virtuoso French harpist born in 1875. With professors such as Alphonse Hasselmans and Théodore Dubois, she received the First Prize for the Harp in 1887. She wrote numerous works for harp including chamber music, and a concerto.
SKU: UT.MAG-254
ISBN 9790215323421. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: HL.14040904
French.
SKU: HL.48180013
UPC: 888680787660. 9.0x12.0x0.061 inches.
Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937) was a French composer, conductor and organist. Despite being predominantly remembered as a conductor, his Impromptu-Caprice remains a popular performance piece in the advanced harpists' repertoire. Pierné studied at the Paris Conservatoire before taking up the position of chief conductor for the concert series, Concerts Colonne in 1910. He remained in the post until 1933, and during this time, he notably conducted the world premiere of Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird. Pierné composed for a variety of instruments, Impromptu-Caprice being one of four solo works by the composer. This Pierné piece for harp contains many characteristics typical of the French style, such as significant tempo changes, flourishes of semiquavers and many alterations in dynamics. Impromptu-Caprice is a varied piece essential to the repertoire of aspiring harpists.
SKU: HL.14014694
SKU: LM.29642
ISBN 9790230996426. 9 x 12 inches. Francais.
Instrumental Music.
SKU: BO.EAS0008
SKU: BT.HU3922
Dutch.
This is the second part of the tutor for the celtic harp. Nowadays we prefer to call it the non-pedal harp because of its much larger range of models and possibilities. This album has the intention of helping harpists tounderstandand to elaborate upon old music, symbols and ornamentations. Several special techniques possible on the non-pedal harp are given attention. Enjoy yourself!
SKU: HL.121110
ISBN 9780936661339. UPC: 669619661332. 8.5x11.0x0.042 inches.
Wondrous Love is a modal hymn from the shape note (also called Sacred Harp) singing popular in churches of Colonial New England. Sylvia's arragement includes three variations and is for advanced beginners and intermediate harp players. 3 pages, with fingerings and no lever changes in a C tuning. Playable on lever harps and pedal harps.
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