Harp Sheet Music By Title

Practical book for beginning at the harp. Covers the basics such as how to sit at the harp, how to identify the strings and the octave layout of pedal and some lever harps, tuning in C Major and Eb Major. Music notation and key signatures, melodic and harmonic intervals are explained. Exercises for finger placements given, all the way up to four finger placements and thumb crossovers. 30 pages

Covers intervals, major / minor triads, chord inversions. Tempo indications, divisions of the quarter note up to the sixteenth note and dotted rhythmns. Introduces glissandos. Discusses tuning a lever harp to E flat and tuning in general. A few folk songs are included to demonstrate different accompaniment patterns. Playable on a 26 string lever harp. 30 pages.

Covers whole and half steps, scale construction, enharmonics, key signatures, circle of fifths, relative keys, seventh chords. Introduces transposition and modulation. Trills, harmonics. Playable on a 26 string lever harp.

These short pieces fall into the category of the concert etude. One of the selections would be appropriate for an intermediate level player, but the rest are for the advanced pedal harpist. The first section has six short studies that include large rolled chords, an octave study, two note phrasing, arpeggios covering multiple octaves. The second section of the book has two more complex concert etudes. Some of the etudes are in multiple sections and are in a tranquil vein. These could be appropriate and interesting for use in a worship setting for a prelude or short interlude. All of the selections are tonal and the basic harmonic language is triadic, but many are quite chromatic. There are no fingerings or pedal markings given. Beautifully printed. A very worthwhile addition to the concert etude literature.

One of the standard pedal harp etude books. These enjoyable etudes are of intermediate level difficulty. For pedal harp, pedal changes are marked. 70 pages.