Scottish harp concert with Rachel Hair and her harp students.
Location: Harp shop De Zingende Snaar, Koningin Elisabethplantsoen 5A, Rhenen.
Tickets are available at the door at Harpwinkel De Zingende Snaar. Reservations can be made by email or telephone info@zingendesnaar.nl, tel. 0317-769135.
A ticket costs 10 euros, children up to 12 years old 5 euros.
In this section of the website you can find original sheet music for harp, from publishers from Europe and America, in all genres: folk, classical, modern, spiritual, jazz etc. The books can be filtered on various attributes such as arranger, composer, category, etc. They can also be easily found by searching on a title of a piece, a composer etc. Of all the books you will find a description of the contents and an image of a small piece of the music.
Catriona's Jig from 'Traditional tune arrangements and origional compositios for the lever harp Book 1'.
Maeve Gilchrist's Celtic-inspired original composition Catriona's Jig is for solo lever or pedal harp. With this arrangement Maeve also provides some alternative arrangement and ostinato-based ideas for you to make the piece your own.
The Hal Leonard Folk Harp Method is a comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide, designed for anyone just learning to play folk harp. Inside you'll find loads of techniques, tips, and fun songs to learn and play. The accompanying audio features 56 demo tracks that cover most of the music examples in the book.
Covers: the harp and its parts; sitting with the harp; hand position and finger placing; key
A beautiful traditional air, claimed by both the Scots and the Irish, this tune has been found in many Scottish collections under the name "Lochaber" as well as in the Irish Bunting harp collection. Maeve Gilchrist's sensitive and moving arrangement can be played on both lever and pedal harp.
This book is jam packed with seven chapters of exercises to build hand independence and rhythm skills. 57 pgs.
Chapters include:
Ostinato-based exercises Investigating 3/4 time Triadic exercises and 6/8–9/8 exploration Off-beats Four note arpeggios Right hand finger-seperation exercises and etudes Rhythmic etudes
Geschikt voor: Lever harp, Small harp up to 26 strings
This book contains 22 songs arranged for folk harp. They are written on a double-treble grand staff (two staff lines, both treble clef), and playable on 22-string or larger harps. Beginning with G below Middle C, all of the songs stay within the three-octave range. There are no lever changes, and all the songs are in either C or Am, no levers needed at all. Well notated, easy to read. 64 pages. Intermediate
I wrote this piece as part of a larger commission by Music Generation Laois, in Ireland, for a group of 37 harpers. The composition was called ‘White Horses’ and dedicated to the feminine strength of the young harpers in the orchestra in an analogy with the fluid yet powerful waves that crashed on the shore of the beach in Portobello where I grew up. I’ve always loved being on or near the ocean and this tune
Maeve was inspired by the 1923 poem "The Harpweaver" by the American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. According to Maeve, this story is mainly about the power of maternal love and the symbiotic relationship between instrument and player.
This collection of arrangements and transcripts from the 2020 album of the same name aims to expand your world of music and deepen your connection to our beautiful
Behind every physical movement is artistic intent: this is the philosophy of Maeve Gilchrist’s new book, the lighter touch: a musically motivated guide to more effortless harp technique. Drawing upon technical ideas from both traditional and non-traditional harping styles, Maeve delves into a world of practice and thought designed to help evolve your harp technique regardless
Maeve Gilchrist - Traditional tune arrangements and original compositions for the lever harp.
This book of traditional tune arrangements and original compositions for the lever harp has been in the works for many years now. Through my time as a faculty member at Berklee, as a workshop instructor at various folk music summer camps and my monthly online workshop Harp Talk, I’ve been using arrangements of
The second volume of original tunes and traditional tune arrangements for the Celtic Harp. It’s a hodge-podge mix of her own comositions and tunes that are interesting vehicles for arrangement ideas, technical exploration or simply fun to play!
Content: Cloud Surfing, Klin Maeve Gilchrist, The Achiever/Sweet Catriona Rose
Maeve Gilchrist's original composition Yellow Birds is taken from the suite The Ostinato Project, and can be played on lever or pedal harp. Alternating from a sprightly 6/8 to 9/8 meter, the piece evokes "starlings in the sky."
Fin and Sarah's Wedding Waltz from 'Traditional tune arrangements and origional compositios for the lever harp Book 1'.
Maeve Gilchrist's original composition Fin and Sarah's Wedding Waltz is for solo lever or pedal harp. It's written in a "light and easy, dreamlike" jazz waltz style with some quick double lever changes. A great piece to explore the harmonic possibilities of a lever
Scottish harp concert with Rachel Hair and her harp students.
Location: Harp shop De Zingende Snaar, Koningin Elisabethplantsoen 5A, Rhenen.
Tickets are available at the door at Harpwinkel De Zingende Snaar. Reservations can be made by email or telephone info@zingendesnaar.nl, tel. 0317-769135.
A ticket costs 10 euros, children up to 12 years old 5 euros.
Duets for Clarsach - The Silver Moon / Athole Highlanders
Kaldeway, Annerieke
Kaldeway A. en Jamin J. - Simply Harp 2
Pampuch, Christoph
Harpa Mundi 25 - Carolan's Ramble to Cashel
Finch, Catrin
Hellewell, David - Rags 'n romance - arr. Catrin Finch
Finch, Catrin
Pictures
Warmhold, Kristine
Pieces of Trust
Macdearmid, Anne
Christmas Garland book 2
Pancaroğlu, Şirin
Nikriz Kasap Havasi - lever harp
Hair, Rachel
Looking at a Rainbow Through a Dirty Window
Finch, Catrin
Hellewell, David - Passionata - arr. Catrin Finch
Dunstone, Stephen
Rêverie
Pancaroğlu, Şirin
An Old Postcard - pedal harp
Speak, Jeroen
Reflections for lever harp
Pancaroğlu, Şirin
Intisâb
Norton, Christopher
Preludes Collection - lever harp
Naderman, François-Joseph
Naderman, F.J. - Variations on the air "L'Oiseau Chantant"
Macdearmid, Anne
Duets for Clarsach - Oran Nan Eilean
Rees-Rohrbacher, Darhon
Modal Moods
Pancaroğlu, Şirin
Nikriz Peşrev - lever harp
Rees-Rohrbacher, Darhon
Cornish Traditional Tunes
Cornelisse, Yolanthe
Verlangen naar Brederode
Versteegh, Michael
De Elfentuin - PDF versie
Pancaroğlu, Şirin
Nikriz Saz Semaisi - lever harp
Walschot-Stapp, Astrid
Providence
Macdearmid, Anne
Ceol na Clarsaich book 3
Dusty Strings Serrana 34
80%
Great harp I needed a harp that was easy on my hands. Other Dusty models had a rich sound that I loved, but my hands hurt after playing for a while. The Serrana sounds fantastic amplified, and is easy for this senior to transport to gigs.
Feuerkobolde - super tolles Stück Hallo ich bin Dozenrin für Harfe an der Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt. Ich wollte sagen, daß mein Harfentrio Altersgruppe III im Bundeswettbewerb von Jugendmusiziert die Feuerkobolde spielen wird, Es ist ein super tolles Stück, daß den Kinder & mir viel Freude bereitet, Danke für so wundervolle Musik-ciao Ute
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Salvi and Lyon&Healy regulations
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New
25Jun2024
to
06Jul2024
Salvi and Lyon&Healy regulations
harp maintenance
In the period from June 25 up to July 6, 2024, Davide Rosso from Salvi and Lyon&Healy comes to maintain and regulate Salvi and L&H lever harps and pedal harps.
maintenance/regulation lever harp, duration 1.5 hours, costs 150 euros maintenance/regulation pedal harp without new felts, duration 2 hours, costs 275 euros maintenance/regulation pedal harp with new felts, duration 3 hours, costs 400 euros
The prices quoted do not include new parts, such as strings, levers, wheels or pedal caps.
You can already make an appointment for maintenance by calling 0317-769134 or send us an email to info@zingendesnaar.nl . We would like to hear what brand and model harp you have, what maintenance you wish to carry out and the serial number of your harp.