Books and Journals; Harp SKU: UT.LB-4 Composed by Mirella Vita. Paperback...(+)
Books and Journals; Harp
SKU: UT.LB-4
Composed by Mirella Vita.
Paperback (Soft Cover).
Classical. Books and
Journals. Ut Orpheus #LB
4. Published by Ut
Orpheus (UT.LB-4).
ISBN 9788881094479.
6.5 x 9.5
inches.
â??During
my career spanning half a
century, like all my
fellow harpists I
constantly had to grapple
with the commonly held
view that the harp has
neither music nor history
of its
own. Fortunately, over
the years I have been
able to give the lie to
this myth and have tried
to bring to light some of
the vast repertoire, both
early and modern,
expressly composed for
this instrument which has
been treated somewhat as
an outsider in the
musical world. The
research work for my
books on Italian and
Swiss harp music was
plain sailing because
source materials were
specific titles and title
pages. Were I to write
books on French, German,
Austrian, British,
Bohemian, Spanish,
Portuguese or
Scandinavian harp music,
the work involved would
be equally smooth and
straightforward. Howev
er, where Dutch music is
concerned, the approach
is rather different,
because here it is the
painters,
treatise-writers and
historians who provide
the evidence and guidance
necessary to discover the
musical customs and
traditions where the harp
played a significant
part. Performers
looking for pieces of
music may use this book
as follows: chapter II
deals with treatises,
chapter III with
paintings, chapter IV
with history and research
accounts. Chapters V and
VI are concerned with
confusions in
terminology. Chapter VII
describes recent
developments and chapters
VIII and IX cover
composers and pieces of
music. Libraries and
publishers are listed
with their addresses in
chapters X and XI, and
finally chapter XII
consists of the index
based on the various
groups of
performers. In this
last chapter harpists
will find the composers
most suited to their
programme, and can then
turn to chapters VIII and
IX for details. The
actual pieces can be
obtained by consulting
chapters X and XI. I wish
you every success in your
search, in your
rehearsals and in your
concerts ! In order to
define what is Dutch or
non-Dutch in early music,
I have followed the
current approach, i.e.
all art and history prior
to the separation of the
â??Seven ProvinÂces
in the 16th century is
the common heritage of
the Low Countries,
whereas everything
pertaining to those
courageous lands from
then onwards is
specifically Dutch..
[Towards the Fountain in the Woods pour la Harpe]. Composed by Marcel Tournier...(+)
[Towards the Fountain in
the
Woods pour la Harpe].
Composed by Marcel
Tournier
(1879-1951). Leduc.
Classical. Softcover. 10
pages. Alphonse Leduc
#AL20002. Published by
Alphonse Leduc
Etudes 1-20 with an additional 20 Etude Variations that expand on the origina...(+)
Etudes 1-20 with an
additional 20 Etude
Variations that expand on
the original etudes.
Composed by Carl Swanson
/ Robert Nicolas-Charles
Bochsa. Edited by Carl
Swanson / Judith Ross.
Arranged by Judith Ross.
Book (spiral-bound). 94
pages. Carl Fischer
#H000073. Published by
Carl Fischer (CF.H73).
Harp SKU: UT.MAG-266 Composed by Wilhelm Posse. Edited by Anna Pasetti. S...(+)
Harp
SKU:
UT.MAG-266
Composed
by Wilhelm Posse. Edited
by Anna Pasetti. Saddle
stitching. Magadis.
Classical. Ut Orpheus
#MAG 266. Published by Ut
Orpheus (UT.MAG-266).
ISBN 9790215326439. 9
x 12
inches.
Posseâ€
s compositions for harp
are rich and varied, and
range from the easy
pieces dedicated to his
students to the virtuoso
concert pieces; we must
also remember his
didactic works, in
particular the ‘Six
Small Studies’ and
the universally known
‘Eight Great
Concert
Studies’. It is
not easy to draw a
balance of his legacy in
the harp world. On one
hand his technical vision
of virtuosity combined
with a great stability of
the hand and rigor of the
fingerings certainly
contributed to the
development of the 20th
Century harp technique;
on the other hand, his
use of the pedals, often
driven by two together
with the same foot (a
very old French
technique), has gradually
become more and more
difficult on modern
harps. From the point of
view of his contribution
to the harp repertoire,
the constant run-up to
the piano has heavily
influenced his
compositional production,
making him often
completely miss the
idiomatic effects of 19th
Century harp music
(except for the use of
harmonic sounds), which
were so loved by his
friend Liszt in the
compositions of Parish
Alvars.
Chamber Music harp SKU: PR.110406720 Composed by Samuel Adler. Classical....(+)
Chamber Music harp
SKU: PR.110406720
Composed by Samuel Adler.
Classical. Softcover.
With Standard notation.
Duration 14 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#110-40672. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.110406720).
UPC:
680160001316.
I
have always been fond of
writing works for
specific people or
organizations. It has
been my good fortune
during most of my
creative career to be
asked to compose for many
extraordinary performers.
The Sonata for
Harpsichord Solo is such
a case in point: it was
written in 1982 for
Barbara Harbach, a superb
performer, close friend,
and collaborator on many
musical projects. The
Sonata was premiered on
March 2, 1984, in a
recital given by Dr.
Harbach at Nazareth
College in Rochester, New
York. During my formative
years as a composer, one
seldom heard of the
harpsichord as a modern
instrument, though while
I attended undergraduate
school at Boston
University, some of us
banded together to
construct a small
harpsichord from one of
the first do-it-yourself
kits which began to
appear in the late '40s.
It was also during this
time that I heard the
Sonatina for Violin and
Harpsichord by my teacher
Walter Piston and
consequently specified
that the accompanying
instrument for my second
violin sonata could
either be a piano or a
harpsichord. It was not
until recently, however,
that my interest in the
harpsichord as a solo
instrument for new music
was aroused. This was
because of the emergence
of so many young
virtuosi, such as Barbara
Harbach, who are
interested in the
performance of new music
besides the great
harpsichord music of the
Classical, Baroque, and
pre-Baroque eras. The
keyboard music of
Domenico Scarlatti has
always intrigued and
fascinated me. The
brevity, excitement, and
clarity of this sparkling
music is charming as well
as exhilarating. It is
this type of Baroque
sonata that inspired the
conception and form of my
harpsichord sonata. The
entire work is loosely
based on the musical
translation of Barabara
Harbach's name,
especially the conflict
of the B (B-flat) and H
(B-natural in German
notation). This secondo
rub or dissonance
especially pervades the
first movement, which is
in a modified sonata
form, pitting jagged and
tense melodic elements
against most lyrical and
smooth lines. This second
movement is a song-like
melody accompanied by
rolled chords which may
be played on the lute
stop of the instrument if
this sonata is performed
on a two-manual
harpsichord. The final
movement is an
ever-driving joyous
toccata which brings the
work to an exciting close
with a coda made up of
accelerating repeated
chords. --Samuel
Adler.
Harp (folk/celtic) - Beginning-Intermediate SKU: MB.97853 Traditional ...(+)
Harp (folk/celtic) -
Beginning-Intermediate
SKU: MB.97853
Traditional and
Original Irish Airs.
Arranged by Dennis Doyle.
Harp: Folk and Pedal,
Saddle-stitched, Style,
Solos. Archive Edition.
Celtic / Irish. Book. 48
pages. Mel Bay
Publications, Inc #97853.
Published by Mel Bay
Publications, Inc
(MB.97853).
ISBN
9780786628469. UPC:
796279057912. 8.75 x
11.75 inches.
With
the exception of two
pieces, the arrangements
in this book of
traditional tunes are
adapted from the
collections of Francis
ONeill, Edward Bunting,
Donal OSullivan, Manus
OBaoill, and Sean Og
OBaoill. Performance
notes are included.
Standard notation.
Harp SKU: UT.HS-231 Arranged by Sara Simari. Saddle stitching. Classical....(+)
Harp
SKU:
UT.HS-231
Arranged by
Sara Simari. Saddle
stitching. Classical. Ut
Orpheus #HS 231.
Published by Ut Orpheus
(UT.HS-231).
ISBN
9790215324558. 9 x 12
inches.
Tarascon
e; Tarantella Capuanese;
Valzer; Polka di
Vittorio; Tarantella
Stiglianese
Th
e history of the
Viggianesi, strolling
musicians, winds over a
period of about four
centuries and esprimeun
‘unicum’
musically and
anthropologically. Heirs
of a travelling musical
tradition that from the
late Middle Ages
inhabited more than just
the streets of the
Kingdom of Sicily and
Naples, the harpists of
this extraordinary story
made their first
appearances as early as
the end of the 1600s
engaged in musical
practices at
shrines. Armed with an
urgent need to make a
living together with a
strong musical
inclination, adaptability
and versatility, the
groups of musicians,
almost always belonging
to the same family
circle, became the
promoters of the great
Italian musical tradition
(Southern in particular),
and with their harps on
their shoulders they
became the identification
symbol of a well-defined
and limited area of
Italy: the Agri Valley,
in Basilicata. From
the many documents
examined, a very wide and
varied musical repertoire
emerges mixing the
pastoral tradition with
classical tradition
(mainly opera, devotional
music with songs from the
cities (from the
Neapolitan tradition to
international
production). The pastoral
repertoire, the subject
of this publication,
consists of a strongly
characterized native
repertoire which the
Viggianesi had
consolidated in both
public and private ritual
occasions in their native
land, even if performing
in distant
lands.
This
collection is included
among the compulsory
pieces of The 7th
International Harp
Contest in Italy Suoni
D’Arpa, 2017,
Category A –
Associazione Italiana
dell’Arpa –
www.ass
ociazioneitalianarpa.it
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(Etudes 1-20 with an additional 20 Etude Variations that expand on the original ...(+)
(Etudes 1-20 with an
additional 20 Etude
Variations that expand on
the original etudes).
Composed by
Nicolas-Charles Bochsa.
Edited by Carl Swanson.
For lever harp. Etude
book (spiral-bound). 94
pages. Published by Carl
Fischer
Composed by Monika Mandelartz. For Folk Harp and Pedal Harp. Saddle-stitched. ...(+)
Composed by Monika
Mandelartz. For Folk Harp
and
Pedal Harp.
Saddle-stitched.
Intermediate-Advanced.
Book.
28 pages. Published by
Mel
Bay Publications, Inc
Harp SKU: UT.MAG-221 Composed by Martin-Pierre Dalvimare. Edited by Anna ...(+)
Harp
SKU:
UT.MAG-221
Composed
by Martin-Pierre
Dalvimare. Edited by Anna
Pasetti. Saddle
stitching. Magadis.
Classical. Ut Orpheus
#MAG 221. Published by Ut
Orpheus (UT.MAG-221).
ISBN 9790215318625. 9
x 12
inches.
Martin-Pier
re Dalvimare, born in
1770, in Dreux
(Eure-et-Loir), from a
distinguished family,
learnt music as an
entertainment art, and
was obliged to make it a
resource for his
existence, after the
troubles of the
Revolution in 1789. He
had acquired a remarkable
talent for the harp; when
he arrived in Paris he
made a very good
impression. Then, man of
the world, knowledgeable
in many fields, which is
rare for a musician, he
was welcome everywhere,
and very soon came in
friendly terms with some
of the most renowned
artists and men of
letters of his times. The
marriage certificate of
the poet Legouve (15
pluviose of the year XI,
or February 1803, 12th
municipality of Paris),
shows that Dalvimare was
one of his best men and
that at the time he was
thirty-two years old. He
became harpist of the
Opera in the year VIII
(1800), and was
definitively confirmed in
the month of fructidor of
the year IX. At the time
of the institution of the
emperor Napoleon's
private music, M.
Dalvimare was appointed
as his harpist. In
September 1807 he
obtained the title of
harp master of the
empress Josephine. A
lucky change of his
fortune allowed this
artist to renounce to
practise his talent for
living, he resigned from
all of his positions on
March, 12th, 1812, and he
retired in Dreux, where
he still was living in
1837. For a peculiar
weakness, he does not
like to speak about his
artist career, which had
been entirely honourable,
and he would like to
forget his success too.
His first composition was
a symphonie concertant
for harp and horn, which
he composed with Frederic
Duvernoy, and published
in the year VII (1798);
notwithstanding, he
counted as his first opus
a collection of romances
with accompaniment of
piano or harp, which he
later published with
Pleyel.
In 1809
Dalvimare composed, for
the theatre Feydeau, a
one-act opera-comique
called The Marriage for
Imprudence. The music was
weak; the work did not
succeed, and people used
to say that the greatest
imprudence had been the
one of the authors who
had it performed.
Nevertheless, the score
of this opera was
published in Paris by
erard. (Francois-Joseph
Fetis).
Early to Intermediate Solos for Harps with and Without Pedals. By Anonymous, Fra...(+)
Early to Intermediate
Solos for Harps with and
Without Pedals. By
Anonymous, Franz Xaver
Gruber, Adolphe-Charles
Adam. Arranged by William
B. Costello. For Harp.
Classical. Level: Early
to Intermediate. Solo
part. 24 pages. Published
by Carl Fischer.
By Benjamin Britten (1913-1976). For Harp. Harp; Masterworks; Part(s); Solo. Fab...(+)
By Benjamin Britten
(1913-1976). For Harp.
Harp; Masterworks;
Part(s); Solo. Faber
Edition. Form: Suite.
20th Century; Masterwork.
Published by Faber Music
Fantasia on the Rondo from the Piano Sonata in A major K. 331 by Wolfgang Am...(+)
Fantasia on the Rondo
from
the Piano Sonata in A
major
K. 331 by Wolfgang
Amadeus
Mozart, arranged for harp
by
Ekaterina Afanasieva
(2015).
Composed by Fazil Say.
Arranged by Ekaterina
Afanasieva. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. Der Finalsatz der
Sonate A-Dur KV 331 von
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
das
Rondo Alla Turca, ist
eines
der bekanntesten
Klavierstucke uberhaupt.
An
diese Popularitat knupft
das
als effektvolle Zugabe
entstandene Stuck von
Faz?l
Say in der Bearbeitung
fur
Harf. Classical. Single
sheet. Composed 1993. Op.
5b.
8 pages. Duration
4'. Schott
Music #ED22797. Published
by
Schott Music
Harp SKU: HL.128725 Arranged for Harp. Composed by Alain Boublil, ...(+)
Harp
SKU:
HL.128725
Arranged
for Harp. Composed by
Alain Boublil,
Claude-Michel Schô,
and nberg. Harp.
Broadway, Movies,
Musicals. Softcover. 4
pages. Published by Hal
Leonard (HL.128725).
ISBN 9780936661636.
UPC: 888680012588.
8.5x11.0x0.038
inches.
Castle on a
Cloud is sung by the
child Cosette in Les
Miserables. It is a
hopeful song of her
imaginary world where
life is beautiful, and
she is not subjected to
the drudgery of her hard
existence. Sylvia Woods
has arranged this lilting
song for lever or pedal
harp. There are 7 lever
changes in the piece, so
it is for lower
intermediate to
intermediate level
players. Fingerings and
lyrics are included, as
well as lever and pedal
changes. Two, 2-page
versions are included:
one for lever harps tuned
to C, and the other for
lever harps tuned to
flats. Pedal harpists can
play either version. The
arrangement for lever
harps tuned to C is in
the key of D (2 sharps),
with A and C lever
changes needed. The
arrangement for lever
harps tuned to flats is
in the key of C, with B
and G lever changes
needed. Either version
may be played on most
small harps with about 26
strings if you play
everything an octave
higher than written.
There are special
instructions in the
introduction telling you
what you'll need to
change if you have a
small harp.