The Harp syllabus 2014-2020 from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland offers a great choice of tunes for your repertoire and will enable you to create a programme for the RCS Traditional Music Exams or SQA exams ceilidhs mods and concerts. The pieces were selected by Patsy Seddon in consultation with Christine Martin and Gillian Fleetwood and are from many well known players teachers and arrangers of Scottish harp music. For the Grade 5 Harp syllabus 2014-2020 we offer you a choice of tunes to start you on your way to a rich and varied repertoire. Where appropriate tunes in this volume have been edited for guidance purposes. The syllabusrequirements are included in the website samples.The entry guidelines syllabus and repertoires can be also viewed at  http://www.rcs.ac.uk/traditional-music-graded-exams/ The arrangements represent the technical standard to be expected at the grade and as such should be adhered to by candidates when performing in the exam.

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.

Scottish and Irish Tunes for Celtic Harp. Discover over two dozen traditional tunes from Scotland and Ireland: a mix of novel and familiar jigs, reels, airs, marches, and strathspeys. Intermediate through advanced harp players will enjoy these lovely melodies and their fresh, sparkling accompaniments. The arrangements include several optional transitions for combining tunes into sets, as heard on Claussen?s album The Road Home from Skye. Suitable for harps with a range of at least two octaves below middle C. Contains dynamics, chords, practical technical exercises, and fingering suggestions.

This is a collection of 24 harp tunes arranged by Alison Kinnaird MBE. The music has been arranged in a style which is not an antiquarian attempt to recreate it as it might have sounded 200 years ago, but which reflects the living and evolving tradition of Scottish music.This collection, the first of its kind, will be of interest to players who are already familiar with their native idiom, to the classically trained musician who wishes to learn about it, and to the general reader for whom the extensive historical notes may throw light on a little known and very beautiful facet of Scottish history. / Harpe