Harp Fingering Fundamentals


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This book discusses fingerings for runs, repeated notes, enharmonics, chords, left hand patterns, and more. Includes many written examples. With an introduction and two appendices.




You Can Teach Yourself Lever Harp


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An updated, step-by-step method for playing the harp. This book can be used alone or with a teacher. the easy-to-follow method produces results for musicians of all levels, and even if you have no prior experience, and varying levels of difficulty are presented in arrangements of familiar musical pieces. All basic techniques and tunes are clearly and thoroughly explained. Specific topics include: how to use this book, how to sit with your harp, how to tune your harp, how to use your hands, plucking the strings, finger placement, basic structural concepts of music and 14 tunes.




Teach Yourself to Play the Folk Harp


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This book teaches the student step by step how to play the harp. Each of the 12 lessons includes instructions, exercises, and folk and classical pieces using the new skills and techniques taught in the lesson. --from publisher description.




First Harp Book


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Basic Harp for Beginners


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A basic, easy-to-understand, step-by-step method about playing the harp. Extensively illustrated, this book is for musicians of all levels, requiring only an interest in learning to play the harp. The material in the book can be applied to any type of harp (with or without pedals) and any type of music. Specific topics covered include basic positioning, tuning, and techniques, etudes, and a colorful selection of folk harp solos. Each section of the book is arranged to show the most efficient way to learn quickly and as easily.




Music Theory and Arranging Techniques for Folk Harps


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(Harp). This book teaches harpers step-by-step the music theory and techniques they need to make their own arrangements. Subjects covered include chords, inversions, keys, accompaniment patterns, transposing, and much more. The book gives plenty of examples and includes more than 90 pieces on which the students can practice their newly gained skills as they progress through the book. Spiral-bound.




Quick-Reference Chord and Scale Chart


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(Harp). This easy-to-read chord and scale chart by Sylvia Woods has everything you need for quick reference on one laminated, 2-sided, 3-hole-punched, 8 1/2 x 11 sheet. It includes the chord construction for every major, minor, augmented, diminished, suspended, 6th, minor 6th, dominant 7th, major 7th, minor 7th, 9th, and major 9th chord. It also includes intervals, inversions, parts of a chord, chord intervals, scales, modes and key signatures. Concise and complete, no musician should be without one!




Quick-Reference Glissando Chart


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(Harp). This easy-to-read chart for pedal harpists by Sylvia Woods includes the pedal diagrams for the most commonly used glissandos: 6th, minor 7th, suspended 4, diminished 7th, augmented, and whole tone. Several possible pedal configurations are listed for many of the glisses, so you may choose the one you like the sound of best and the one that is easiest to get in and out of with the fewest pedal changes. This 2-sided, 3-hole-punched, 8 1/2 x 11 laminated sheet is concise, complete, and easy to use. No pedal harpist should be without one!




On Playing the Harp


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50 Irish Melodies for All Harps


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(Harp). 50 wonderful traditional and contemporary Irish melodies arranged by Sylvia Woods for both beginning and advanced hard players. Songs include: The Castle of Dromore * Cockles and Mussels * Danny Boy * The Gartan Mother's Lullaby * Killarney * Limerick Is Beautiful * My Wild Irish Rose * Sweet Rosie O'Grady * Warin' o' the Green * When Irish Eyes Are Smiling * Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral * and more. Also includes an alphabetical index and an index of first lines. Spiral bound. Playable on both lever harps and pedal harps.