Book 2-Christopher Norton is well-known throughout the world for his compositions for piano particularly the Microjazz series published by Boosey and Hawkes and Connections for Piano published by 80 Days Publishing. His music is popular with piano students as well as professional performers because he writes well for the piano has a subtle blend of jazz pop and classical influences and has a distinctive style of writing that appeals to a wide range of audiences. The Microjazz Collection books have for many years been a favourite with teachers because they contain such a variety of styles some specific some quirky combinations of the composer???s own devising. The melodiesare attractive and sometimes unpredictable with modal and pentatonic elements often featured. These arrangements from the Microjazz Collection for lever harp will bring these stimulating pieces to a whole new audience.

Collection-Christopher Norton is well-known throughout the world for his compositions for piano particularly the Microjazz series published by Boosey and Hawkes and Connections for Piano published by 80 Days Publishing. His music is popular with piano students as well as professional performers because he writes well for the piano has a subtle blend of jazz pop and classical influences and has a distinctive style of writing that appeals to a wide range of audiences. 'The nine pieces in this book are from my Jazz and Latin Preludes for solo piano beautifully transcribed and arranged for the pedal harp by Savourna Stevenson. Iâ''m so pleased that these pieces are available to acompletely new group of instrumentalists. Enjoy!'

The composer writes: 'My approach to writing these works for intermediate level lever harp was to fully embrace the diatonic and/or modal properties of the lever harp and to write into the strengths of the instrument. I also wanted to create works which whilst embedded in stylistically familiar territory also open up less familiar technical and musical elements for new players. For example the ???celtic??? themed works Coire Fhionn Lochan and The Road to Kilchurn Castle are derived from very familiar elements but which challenge the players ability to deal with irregular times and juxtaposed rhythmic material and Reverie which tests the harpists ability to maintain evennesswhile controlling gradual changes of tempo and dynamic within a very familiar technical landscape. One of the other important things was to write works specifically for the lever harp (as opposed to pedal harp) especially given that so much lever harp repertoire consists of arrangements or re-arranged pedal harp music. The lever system offers many advantages over the pedal system including the opportunity to employ chromatic possibilities that would otherwise be impossible. So some of these works indulge and celebrate these idiosyncrasies. I hope you will enjoy playing them as much as I enjoyed writing them.'

This meditative piece reflects on the eternal mystery of ???what is true is beautiful and what is beautiful is good???. The simplicity of the text is mirrored in the pure tonality of D major and in the repetitive four-bar harmonic progression.

Harpe - Le Verseau. Par WERNER. 3 Pièces (for harp without pedal)/ Répertoire / Harpe

La référence AL25995 de l'éditeur Leduc dont l'auteur célèbre est Herbert, qui a pour titre An Dorgenn, a été écrite et composée pour Harpe et plus particulièrement pour Harpe Celtique. Cette partition musicale appartient à la catégorie Classique. / Harpe Celtique / Partition

Petite pièce très facile pour la harpe sans pédales avec piano ou seconde harpe. Par RENIE HENRIETTE. Composed by the famous harpist Henriette Renie, Les Pins De Charlannes is an easy small piece for lever Harp with Piano or Harp accompaniment. This piece for beginners is really nice to play and to start playing ensemble music. The principal Harp sections feature some really melodious sections and some sections with quavers going up. It alternates these sections with the accompaniment played by the Piano or a second Harp. Henriette Renie was a virtuoso French Harpist born in 1875. With professors such as Alphonse Hasselmans and Theodore Dubois, she receivedthe First Prize for the Harp in 1887. She wrote numerous works for Harp including chamber music, and a concerto. / Niveau : Très Facile / Répertoire / Harpe et Piano ou 2ème Harpe