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..
Harp SKU: HF.FH-1063 Band 3: Einfuhrung in das Orchesterspiel (Orchest...(+)
Harp
SKU:
HF.FH-1063
Band 3:
Einfuhrung in das
Orchesterspiel
(Orchesterstudien).
Composed by Hans-Joachim
Zingel. Sheet music.
Friedrich Hofmeister
Musikverlag #FH 1063.
Published by Friedrich
Hofmeister Musikverlag
(HF.FH-1063).
ISBN
9790203410638. 8.3 x 11.7
inches.
Notenbeispi
ele 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).
Harp SKU: FG.55011-912-3 Composed by Tauno Marttinen. Classical, contempo...(+)
Harp
SKU:
FG.55011-912-3
Composed by Tauno
Marttinen. Classical,
contemporary. Score.
Fennica Gehrman
#55011-912-3. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-912-3).
ISBN
9790550119123.
Luon
nonjumala (God of Nature)
is Tauno Marttinen’s
adaption for harp of his
piano suite Taara op. 34.
The manuscript for harp
was found in January 2024
by Rauno Marttinen,
composer’s
son.
Duration: c.
15’ Movements: 1.
Virran ääniä | The
Voices of the
Stream 2.
Luonnonjumalan lähde |
The Spring of God of
Nature 3. Metsässä
tuulee |The Wind Blows
through the
Forest
Tauno
Marttinen (1912–2008)
studied in Viipuri and
later in Helsinki at the
Helsinki Conservatoire.
His piano teachers were
Ilmari Hannikainen and
Selim Palmgren, but he
soon became increasingly
interested in composing.
Marttinen was also the
conductor of the
Hämeenlinna City
Orchestra in 1949−1958
and the founder and
principal of the
Hämeenlinna Music
Institute.
Marttin
en started his composing
career in late Romantic
vein. However, his first
concerts in the 1940s met
with criticism since the
winds of Modernism had
already landed in
Finland. He then became
interested in Dodecaphony
and studied under
Vladimir Vogel in Ascona
but later abandoned
strict dodecaphony and
found his own, personal
style incorporating
elements from
Neo-classicism and
free-tonality with a hint
of mysticism – he was
called the Shaman of
Hämeenlinna (his
hometown).
Tauno
Marttinen was an
incredibly productive
composer; he wrote around
four hundred works with
opus numbers as well as a
wealth of other pieces.
His oeuvre includes 10
symphonies, concertos for
various solo instruments,
operas as well as vocal,
chamber and instrumental
works. Many of
Marttinen’s pieces have
become popular standard
repertoire, such as the
piano piece Kimalluksia
(Gleams).
Harp SKU: HL.48181018 Composed by Marcel Tournier. Leduc. Classical. Soft...(+)
Harp
SKU:
HL.48181018
Composed
by Marcel Tournier.
Leduc. Classical.
Softcover. 22 pages.
Alphonse Leduc #AL20003.
Published by Alphonse
Leduc (HL.48181018).
UPC: 888680907761.
9x12
inches.
Theme
and Variations by
Marcel Tournier is a
piece for advanced harp
players. Starting with a
main theme of arpeggiated
chords, the piece then
follows with a number of
variations, including
chords, arpeggios,
glissandos, and numerous
nuances and speed
variations. The piece
starts in Allegro
moderato, then evolving
to Allegretto, Allegretto
Scherzando, sometimes
more energetic or
quieter. This piece is
great to master speed,
flexibility and agility
as well as the different
types of nuances. Marcel
Tournier (1879-1951) was
a French harpist and
teacher. He studied with
Alphonse Hasselmans at
the Paris Conservatoire
and composed numerous
pieces for solo harp:
Russian Lullabies,
Six Christmas,
Four Preludes and
Three Images, Suite 1,
Op. 29, among many
others.
Harp SKU: UT.MAG-274 Composed by Philipp-Joseph Hinner. Edited by Frances...(+)
Harp
SKU:
UT.MAG-274
Composed
by Philipp-Joseph Hinner.
Edited by Francesca La
Carrubba Jessica
Pettenà . Saddle
stitching. Magadis.
Classical. Score and
Parts. Ut Orpheus #MAG
274. Published by Ut
Orpheus (UT.MAG-274).
ISBN 9790215326859. 9
x 12
inches.
Rediscoveri
ng, studying and
analyzing the musical art
of Philipp Joseph Hinner
means enhancing a piece
of the eighteenth-century
harp music mosaic.
Hinner's work intrigues
for its extraordinary
simplicity, for its
regularity and harmony;
the ordered balance of
the parts, symmetry and
sense of proportion are
essential elements for
the author, and give
character and unity to
his work. The harp
repertoire has long been
overshadowed by the
keyboard one, which
boasts extensive solo and
chamber literature, and
consolidated for over two
centuries. The
rediscovery of the
history of our
instrument, however, is
still recent and the
research work in the
field of harp music is
still long. Hinner,
with the apparent
simplicity of his opus
10, can thus regain his
role in the harp
repertoire of the
eighteenth century, as
well as covering a
considerable didactic
value today. The part of
the first harp
undoubtedly presents
characteristics of
greater rhythmic and
virtuosic complexity than
that of the second, which
consists of a continuous
accompaniment
interspersed with simple
thematic imitated
episodes. Furthermore in
the composition are
included arias such as
O ma tendre
Musette, a French
popular melody of the
18th century (previously
set to music by
Pierre-Alexandre
Monsigny), and <>, taken from
the opera-comique
L'erreur d'un moment
ou la Suite de Julie
by Nicolas Dezede, as
well as themes from
Gluck's Iphigenie en
Aulide, which had
been all used also by
Hinner's first harp
master, Francesco Petrini
(1744-1819). Hinner's
opus 10, originally
written in separate parts
for two harps, or harp
and fortepiano, is
presented here updated
and completed with its
score, for a thorough
perception of the
work.