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.

The composer writes: 'This piece was composed using as its basis the compositional technique of serialism in which a fixed series of notes are used to make the harmonic and melodic base of a piece. I looked at the twelve Munro???s on the Isle of Skye known as The Cuillin and used their height???s to get the twelve notes required in serialism. The tallest is Sg?rr Alasdair at 992 meters and Sg?rr a??? Mhadaidh is the shortest at 918 meters. I added together the number of meters to get a single number that could be related to a note in the scale. I wrote down the scale I had chosen and assigned each Cuillin a note the heights of the Cuillin gave me the order which gave me the tune Iuse. I decided not to use a conventional scale so I put on my B and F levers which gives the scale a darker colour that I feel matches the mystery of the Cuillin. Although the technique used to achieve the scale is serial the piece itself cannot be described as a serial piece and I have allowed the music to develop more freely and organically than a system would allow.'

Par . Peut-on jouer des morceaux de musique actuelle sur un instrument traditionnel comme la harpe ' Bien sûr que oui ! Et pas seulement la harpe à pédales classique, mais aussi la harpe à crochets (ou « harpe celtique »), plus petite et plus maniable, dont l\'étonnante palette sonore ne cesse de gagner en notoriété. La harpiste et professeure de harpe Anne Kox-Schindelin propose ici 14 titres populaires de bandes originales de films et séries télévisées de ces dernières décennies. Ses arrangements sont parfaitement adaptés aux possibilités de la harpe à crochets à 34 cordes et conviennent tout autant à la harpe à pédales. Ils viennent ainsi combler une véritable lacune dans le répertoire de la harpe ! / Date parution : 2022-06-14/ Recueil / Harpe