(For Solo Harp). By Gary Schocker. For harp. Contemporary. Solo part. Standard n...(+)
(For Solo Harp). By Gary
Schocker. For harp.
Contemporary. Solo part.
Standard notation.
Composed July 07 2012. 16
pages. Duration 16
minutes. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
Arranged for the Irish Harp. Waltons Irish Music Books. Celtic, Irish. Softcover...(+)
Arranged for the Irish
Harp. Waltons Irish Music
Books. Celtic, Irish.
Softcover with CD. 270
pages. Waltons Irish
Music #WM1451CD.
Published by Waltons
Irish Music
Harp SKU: CF.H82 Five Children’s Pieces. Composed by Mauric...(+)
Harp
SKU: CF.H82
Five Children’s
Pieces. Composed by
Maurice Ravel.
Transcribed by Carl
Swanson. 32 pages. Carl
Fischer Music #H82.
Published by Carl Fischer
Music (CF.H82).
ISBN
9781491160183. UPC:
680160918782.
Mauri
ce Ravel's Mother Goose
is arguably one of the
most well-known and
well-loved of Ravel's
works. Whether one
encounters it first in
its original iteration
for piano, four hands, or
in the sweeping orchestra
transcription, Mother
Goose leaves an
impression that isn't
soon forgotten. The
pieces are short, simple,
and descriptive, but are
nonetheless ravishing,
and beautifully showcase
Ravel’s genius and
compositional skills. Now
for the first time, the
entire work has been
transcribed for solo harp
by harpist Carl Swanson.
Each of the original five
movements has been
carefully edited, making
the pieces playable on
solo harp, while keeping
the spirit that Ravel
intended. Here is a
valuable addition to the
harp repertoire by one of
the greatest composers of
the twentieth century,
Maurice Ravel.
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.
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: 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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(For Solo Harp). By Gary Schocker. For Harp. Contemporary. Solo part. Standard n...(+)
(For Solo Harp). By Gary
Schocker. For Harp.
Contemporary. Solo part.
Standard notation. 8
pages. Duration 6
minutes. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
[The Wet Garden for Harp]. Composed by Jacques de la Presle. Leduc. Classical....(+)
[The Wet Garden for
Harp].
Composed by Jacques de la
Presle. Leduc. Classical.
Softcover. 7 pages.
Alphonse
Leduc #AL20001. Published
by
Alphonse Leduc
Chamber Music harp SKU: PR.114417670 For Harp. Composed by Carter ...(+)
Chamber Music harp
SKU: PR.114417670
For Harp. Composed
by Carter Pann. Sws.
Contemporary. Solo part.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2010. 8 pages.
Duration 4:30. Theodore
Presser Company
#114-41767. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114417670).
ISBN
9781491107973. UPC:
680160636228. 9x12
inches.
The
inscription above Carter
Pann's Emerald's on
Artemis reads: A music
box for Emerald Weber
(born 18 June, 2010) on
Morgan Black's harp
Artemis. The title of
this 2010 composition is
a bit cryptic, but
Artemis is the given name
of harpist Morgan Black's
instrument. The music is
both out-and-out tender
and exuberant, clearly
celebrating the birth of
Emerald, the first
daughter of one of Pann's
dear childhood friends.
For advanced
harpists.________________
_______________________Te
xt on the scanned back
cover:Composer/pianist
Carter Pann (2016
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
in Music) has written for
and worked with musicians
around the world,
garnering performances by
ensembles such as the
London Symphony and City
of Birmingham Symphony,
the Tchaikovsky Symphony
in Moscow, many radio
symphonies around Europe,
the Seattle Symphony,
National Repertory
Orchestra, the youth
orchestras of New York
and Chicago, and
countless wind
ensembles.He has written
for Richard Stoltzman,
the Antares Ensemble, the
Capitol Saxophone
Quartet, the West Coast
Wind Quintet, the River
Oaks Chamber Ensemble,
and many concert
pianists. His String
Quartet No. 2
“Operas†was
commissioned by the
Takács Quartet. Pann
has been awarded a
Charles Ives Fellowship,
a Masterprize seat in
London, and many ASCAP
awards over the years.
His numerous CDs
encompass solo, vocal,
chamber, orchestral, and
wind music, and have
received two Grammy
nominations. He currently
teaches at the University
of Colorado in
Boulder.
Harp SKU: HL.234540 Harp Solo. Composed by John Luther Adams. Musi...(+)
Harp
SKU:
HL.234540
Harp
Solo. Composed by
John Luther Adams. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Softcover. Composed 2017.
14 pages. Chester Music
#CH86295. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.234540).
9.0x12.0x0.09 inches.
English.
'This set
of miniatures is based on
traditional dance songs
of the Yupik Eskimo
people of Western Alaska.
In their original forms,
these melodies would be
sung in unison. The
first, third and fifth
songs would be
accompanied by frame
drums. The second and
fourth are game songs,
for jumping rope and
juggling pebbles. Aside
from the obvious
difference in
instrumentation, my
settings of these songs
differ from the Yup'ik
originals in other
respects. I have extended
and varied the melodies,
and added
countermelodies, ostinato
figurations,
introductions, interludes
and codas. The first four
melodies are drawn from
the collection Yup'ik
Eskimo songs, compiled by
Thomas F. Johnston, and
Tupou L. Pulu, and
published by the
University Of Alaska. The
fifth was 'loaned' to me
by Yup'ik singer and
dancer Chuna McIntyre,
who learned it in his
village of Eek, Alaska.
The poems preceding each
piece are rough
translations of the words
to the songs. These
verses are often cryptic
and enigmatic. Their
obscurity is increased
because some of the words
or their meanings have
been lost, over time.' -
John Luther Adams.
Harp SKU: HL.14043600 Harp. Composed by Simon Holt. Music Sales Am...(+)
Harp
SKU:
HL.14043600
Harp. Composed by
Simon Holt. Music Sales
America. Classical,
Contemporary. Softcover.
12 pages. Chester Music
#CH82940. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14043600).
9.0x12.0x0.058
inches.
Simon Holt
's the man in the wind
and the west moon was
composed for Solo Harp in
2013, having been
commissioned by The Tanza
Trust. The piece takes
its title from a line in
a Dylan Thomas poem named
'And death shall have no
dominion'. The four
sections of the work see
shifting harmonies
throughout, with the
first section repeating
but also changing ever so
subtly. The unique thing
about the piece is that
each section is
dynamically different,
but is left open to
interpretation by the
player. The man in
the wind and the west
moon was
first performed on the
2nd of June 2014 at
Milton Court Concert Hall
in London by Alex Rider.
The piece lasts around
7minutes, and the bottom
C and D strings should be
tuned to C# and D#
respectively.
Harp (Harp) SKU: HL.48181026 Composed by R. Nicholas-Charles Bochsa. Ledu...(+)
Harp (Harp)
SKU:
HL.48181026
Composed
by R. Nicholas-Charles
Bochsa. Leduc. Classical.
Softcover. Alphonse Leduc
#AL20022. Published by
Alphonse Leduc
(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.
Harp; Early Music SKU: UT.MAG-293 Composed by John Stanley. Arranged by S...(+)
Harp; Early Music
SKU:
UT.MAG-293
Composed
by John Stanley. Arranged
by Simona Marchesi.
Magadis. Classical.
Score. Ut Orpheus #MAG
293. Published by Ut
Orpheus (UT.MAG-293).
ISBN 9790215328341. 9
x 12 inches.
John
Stanleyâ??s 30
Voluntaries (translatable
as preludes), published
in three collections as
opp. 5, 6 and 7, are
among the best known
organ works of the 18th
century. These free-style
compositions were
received with great
appreciation by his
contemporaries; the first
volume, published in
1748, immediately
achieved canonical status
and encouraged other
composers to write
similar collections. The
pieces, of easy to medium
difficulty, are for
manuals (alternatively,
they can also be played
on the harpsichord) and
comprise two movements,
slow and fast, many of
which are characterized
by a certain rhythmic
energy and richness of
color, expressed through
the use of solo registers
such as cornet and
trumpet, with multiple
echo effects, here
adapted and transformed
into piano, forte, and
playing near the sound
board effect, limiting,
or rather modifying,
their results.
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.
Folk Harp; Harp SKU: HL.131541 Arranged for Harp. By A. Great Big ...(+)
Folk Harp; Harp
SKU:
HL.131541
Arranged
for Harp. By A. Great
Big World. Arranged by
Sylvia Woods. Harp. Pop.
Softcover. 4 pages.
Published by Hal Leonard
(HL.131541).
ISBN
9780936661667. UPC:
888680025564.
8.5x11.0x0.031
inches.
Say
Something is an original
song by the American duo
A Great Big World. The
lyrics are about letting
go when a relationship
ends. It became an
international hit when
Christina Aguilera joined
A Great Big World on a
re-recorded version in
2013. Sylvia Woods has
made a 4-page advanced
beginner to intermediate
arrangement, playable on
either lever or pedal
harp. This music features
a pedal point (also
called a pedal note or
pedal tone), which is a
sustained or continually
repeated note that is
held constant while
harmonies change in other
parts. A pedal point is
usually found in the
bass, but here it is in
the middle register.
Virtually every measure
includes a middle C note
on the downbeat.
Sometimes it is played
with the right hand, and
at other times with the
left. But it is almost
always there. This pedal
point harmony is what
originally drew me into
this beautiful piece of
music the first time I
heard it on the radio.
The music is in the key
of C, and no sharping
levers are required, as
there are no lever
changes. Fingerings,
lyrics and chord symbols
are included. The harp
range required is 24
strings from a low C up
to an E. It can be played
on 24-string to 26-string
harps with a C as the
lowest string if you play
both hands an octave
higher than written.
Harp SKU: UT.HS-284 Composed by Pellegrino Santucci. Edited by Giuseppe M...(+)
Harp
SKU:
UT.HS-284
Composed by
Pellegrino Santucci.
Edited by Giuseppe
Monari. Saddle stitching.
Classical. Ut Orpheus #HS
284. Published by Ut
Orpheus (UT.HS-284).
ISBN 9790215326460. 9
x 12
inches.
Melodia
for Solo Harp/ Alleluja
Modo II - Wachet auf for
Harp and
Organ
This
publication gathers
together in these three
pieces the only
compositions by Santucci
devoted to the harp, both
as a solo instrument and
in dialogue with the
organ, his favourite
instrument. The little
Melodia per arpa,
a simple piece having an
apparently didactic
purpose, does not show
the date of composition
but, judging by the
handwriting of the
manuscript, it probably
dates back to the period
between 1980 and 1990. No
other information has
reached us as to why the
piece was
composed. The two
pieces Alleluja Modo
II and Wachet
auf, both dated 20
March 1993, composed for
the unusual duo of harp
and organ, are dedicated
to Anna Maria Restani,
first harp in the
orchestra of the Teatro
Comunale of Bologna from
1965 to 2002, and to her
son Wladimir Matesic,
organist and now teacher
at the Conservatoire in
Trieste. Gregorian chant
is the protagonist of the
first piece, evoking a
Gothic and rarefied
atmosphere. The second is
instead a blatant tribute
to Johann Sebastian Bach
(right from the first
bars the reference to
Prelude no. 1 of the
Well-Tempered
Clavier is clear),
through one of his most
famous chorales
(Wachet auf, ruft uns
die stimme), also
used by Santucci for
numerous other
compositions, including
Il corteo dei Magi
[for trumpet, organ,
orchestra and choir,
1986, ms.], still
performed in the
Christmas concerts in
Bologna. (Giuseppe
Monari).
Harp SKU: HL.48182311 Composed by Marcel Grandjany. Leduc. Classical. Sof...(+)
Harp
SKU:
HL.48182311
Composed
by Marcel Grandjany.
Leduc. Classical.
Softcover. 12 pages.
Alphonse Leduc #AL23442.
Published by Alphonse
Leduc (HL.48182311).
UPC: 888680787066.
9.25x12.25x0.055
inches.
Written by
Marcel Grandjany on a
tune of Haydn, Fantasy is
a piece for Harp that
includes 5 variations of
the main theme. Ideally
to be played on pedal
Harp, it would fit the
skills and abilities of
advanced Harp players.
The technical
difficulties encountered
are various as this piece
involves some
hand-crossings,
arpeggios, natural
harmonies, accidental
alterations as well as
some pedal changes.
Marcel Grandjany is a
French-born American who
lived in the 20th
century. He studied with
Alphonse Hasselmans at
the Paris Conservatoire
from the age of 11 and
got the First Prize at 13
years old. He composed
numerous pieces for Harp,
of all levels: '3 Very
Easy Little Pieces, Op.
7', 'Divertissement, Op.
29', 'Variation on the
Londonderry Air, Op. 20'
and 'Two Duets for 2
harps, Op. 26' among many
others..
Flute, Bassoon and Harp SKU: BT.ALHE31254 Composed by Andre Jolivet. Clas...(+)
Flute, Bassoon and Harp
SKU: BT.ALHE31254
Composed by Andre
Jolivet. Classical. Set
(Score & Parts). Heugel &
Cie #ALHE31254. Published
by Heugel & Cie
(BT.ALHE31254).
French.
Pastoreles De
Noël b
y André
Jolivet is a piece
for Flute, Bassoon and
the Harp lasting nearly
13 minutes. This piece is
really gentle and
restrained which
demonstrates the quality
ofJolivet’
s work but also reflects
that period of WWII when
France was under
occupation. These scores
are of medium level of
ability.
Pastore
les De
Noël f
eatures four
sections:L’é
toile (the Star), Les
Mages (the Wisemen), La
Vierge et l’Enfant
(the Virgin and the
Child) and Entrée
et Danse des Bergers (the
Shepherds’ dance).
Each of these parts
describes a part
oftheChristmas story,
starting with the Flute
and the Bassoon in a
duet, followed by the
entrance of the Harp to
settle the first part.
The second section is
quieter, expressing the
walk in the desert. The
Virgin and the Child
islike a lullaby and the
piece finishes on a
joyful dance to express
happiness and devotion.
André
Jolivet is a French
composer who was really
inspired by the
Antiquity, and had a
strong interest
foratonality. He also
wrote many chamber music
pieces, eleven concertos,
some orchestral and some
vocal music.
Harp (Harp) - difficult SKU: HL.49019232 For Harpe solo. Composed ...(+)
Harp (Harp) - difficult
SKU: HL.49019232
For Harpe solo.
Composed by Thierry
Pecou. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. String Solo.
Softcover. Composed 2011.
16 pages. Duration 8'.
Schott Music #ED21269.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49019232).
ISBN
9790001179911. UPC:
884088907624.
9.0x12.0x0.075
inches.
Although
the composer Thierry
Pecou mostly does without
experimental playing
techniques, an exemplary
modern harp sound emerges
from among soft
whispering sounds and
massive chord clusters.
Tone colours
associatively modelled on
the sparkling green of
jade crystallize.Pecou
composed 'Harpe de jade'
for the international
harp competition of the
Cite des Arts in Paris.
The work is dedicated to
the internationally
renowned harpist Isabelle
Moretti. 'Harpe de jade'
is the first work of the
young French composer
published by Schott
Music.