SKU: 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.
SKU: HL.128724
ISBN 9780936661605. UPC: 888680014209. 8.5x11.0x0.027 inches. Arr. Sylvia Woods.
Tangled is Disney's popular animated film from 2010, based on the German fairy tale Rapunzel. This book includes two songs from the movie, arranged for lever or pedal harp by Sylvia Woods: I See the Light and Healing Incantation. Both pieces include lyrics, fingerings, and lever or pedal changes. I See the Light is the love song between Rapunzel and Flynn, sung in the boat during the lantern ceremony. This 5-page intermediate arrangement is in the key of C with F and G lever changes throughout. The range is 31 strings, from the C 2 octaves below middle C up to the E 2 octaves and 2 strings above middle C. The one-page Healing Incantation is the song that Rapunzel sings when her hair creates the magic. It is in the key of 1 sharp, with G and C lever changes. It can be played by advanced beginners with experience in making lever changes. The range is 22 strings, from the E almost 2 octaves below middle C, up to the E 9 strings above middle C. It can be played on many 26-string harps, if played an octave higher than written. Both pieces are included in this sheet music.
SKU: CF.CM9220
ISBN 9780825883385. UPC: 798408083380. 6.875 x 10.5 inches. Key: A major. Text: Traditional Latin Text. Traditional Latin Text.
This octavo is the Gloria from Dave and Jean Perry's Missa brevis. The traditional Latin text is coupled with an inspired new and joyous arrangement for our times. Choral directors looking for a grander performance, can also use an optional arrangement for 2 harps and strings (vln 1, vln 2 , vla, cello, bass). If you do not have 2 harps, a piano part (different from the piano part in the octavo) is included to cover the harps. The full score and the parts for the 2 harps, the optional substituting piano and strings are available as a free download at www.carlfischer.com. Duration: 3:30.
SKU: 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.
SKU: ST.Y259
ISBN 9790220222559.
Far Across the Sea' (Ymhell dros y mor) is the latest instrumental work from a composer noted for her original and sensitive writing for harp and harp ensemble. In this gentle solo, what sounds like a folksong - and a very fine one - is in fact a newly composed tune, crafted with artful simplicity. But as the music journeys further from its characteristically Welsh opening, teasing out new suggestions from the material, the sense of nostalgia becomes definitely more contemporary than traditional, though the uplifting conclusion restores the tone of bardic rhetoric. This work would be a rewarding item for players of intermediate standard, and was recommended for the under 18 category of the 2009 Wales International Harp Festival.
SKU: BT.ALHE32022
French.
As a student of famous harpist Lily Laskine, Denise Mégevand (1917-2004) received high quality musical education and was significantly instrumental in the revival of the Celtic Harp. She compiled numerous, prolific books for theinstrument, Play and Learn the Celtic Harp being no exception. The Celtic Harp characteristically has metal strings, and is notoriously challenging to play. However, Mégevand's Play and Learn the Celtic Harp provides excellentand clear instruction to progression on the instrument. The book addresses general principles of the Celtic Harp, intervals, arpeggios, chords and scales, as well as including 13 pieces. For all aspiring players of the CelticHarp, Mégevand's Play and Learn the Celtic Harp provides excellent insight and instruction for beginners.
SKU: PR.164001780
UPC: 680160037056.
The American imagist poet Amy Lowell (1874-1925) provided both the title and the substance for this brief descriptive work in her poem Night Clouds. I had been commissioned by the flute/harp duo Chaski to write a piece that had a different sound than most flute and harp pieces. The image of these elusive beasts cavorting through the night, before the appearance of the tiger sun, seemed to me perfectly suited for the flute and harp and would give me the chance to write a work for that combination that did NOT have overtones of nymphs and shepherds. I wanted to make much use of the harp's more violent sounds (beating the strings and the soundboard, for instance) as well as its unusual and idiomatic effects, such as pedal glissandi. For the flute, there are jet-whistle effects, extremes of register, pitch-bending and other decidedly non-pastoral gestures. The work was composed in 1986. --Dan Welcher.
