Sheet
Music and Resources for Pedal and Lever Harps
Music available
in retail stores:
The Sacred Lever Harp (pedal and lever
harps) arr. Barbara Ann Fackler
The Sacred Lever Harp Supplement arr. Daniel K. Fackler
Silberjahr-Ländler by Daniel K. Fackler
O For a Heart To Praise My God (Edwin T.
Childs) edited by Barbara Ann Fackler
In This Very Room (Ron and Carol Harris)
pedal and lever harp, arr. Barbara Ann Fackler
Other interesting music you should know about:
Christmas Meditations for Viola and Harp arr. Gail Salvatori
Pretty Quick Music
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SHORT CUTS: lead sheets for harpists
SHORT AND SWEET: one or two page full
arrangements of mostly classical music for all harps
CHRISTMAS AND SACRED SOLOS: Skill building and
intermediate harp solo arrangements for performance in worship
settings.
HARP CIRCLE MUSIC: flexible, multi-level
arangements for harp circles and student ensembles
MUSIC FOR HORN AND HARP
MUSIC FOR HORN
Andrès
Notation Project A
compilation of markings used
in the music
of Bernard Andrès. Provided free of charge to harpists
worldwide. Includes video demonstrations of some effects.
Free Harp Music:
These are freely downloadable
and distributable arrangements(PDF). Look for more free music in Pretty Quick Music.
Insert
for Britten's
"There is No Rose",
from Ceremony of Carols: Why Britten chose to put the harp notation in
small notes and the piano in large is a mystery. This insert makes it
easier to read this in poor light, so common in many churches. (pedal
harp)
Lead Sheet Tutorial, a quick introduction for those new to reading lead sheets.
Thoughtful quotes and writings about
the study and performance of music:
Interesting thoughts from
harpist Sam
Milligan on the value of intermeditate level music. Visit the
rest of Milligan's Blog here.
"It ought no longer be true that the most exalted moments of a
churchgoer's week are associated with music that would not be tolerated
in a place of secular entertainment." - Ralph Vaughan-Williams
"The aim and final reason of all music should be nothing else but the
Glory of God and the refreshment of the Spirit." - J. S. Bach
"... I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and
anything I can't do ... " - Julian
Bream
"The best way to learn to tune is to play on a well-tuned instrument." - Lynne Abbey-Lee
"Always, always listen to what you are playing. There is a good reason
we don't teach deaf people how to play harp." - Barbara Fackler
"Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's
not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity." - Barney
Kessel - Jazz Guitar
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." - Beverly Sills
"As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me." - Carly Simon
"When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice." - Sarah Vaughan
"Do not set for yourself an arbitrary goal, but let the level of your
accomplishment be determined by time, patience, and the amount of
energy you can apply. It will not come overnight, but it will come in
time." - Marjorie Chauvel
"Always be smarter than the people who hire you." - Lena Horne
"Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do." - Sarah Caldwell
"You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means
you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are
alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." -
Billie Holiday
"Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself."- Alberta Hunter
"The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other
people, so they might not get the chance to create their own." - Carole King
"I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it." - Norah Jones
"When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed its point." - Maria Callas
"As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down
there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise
might." - Marian Anderson
"Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply
yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it." - Julie Andrews
"The amateur works until they get something right - the professional
works until they can't go wrong." - Advice given to Julie Andrews from
her beloved singing teacher
No one can figure out your worth but you. - Pearl Bailey
"Motivation can't just come from the teacher. The student has to give
100% and the teacher has to give 100%-then things can be accomplished."
- Kathleen Bride
"If you are not intentionally creating a good habit, you are, by
default, creating a bad one. Habits are easily made. The trick is to be
conscious of the kind of habit you are creating for yourself. The habit
of not practicing regularly is a habit that is difficult to break."
-Barbara Fackler
"Short periods of concentrated practice are better than hours of
mind-wandering practice." -Patricia Jaeger
"Don't settle for success when excellence is within your grasp." -
anonymous
"If you wish to play harp well, you must practice well." -Barbara Fackler
"If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened
to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to
it. Because that's what soul is all about." - Aretha Franklin
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." - Judy Garland
"Watching what your hands are playing is not the most efficient way to
use your eyes." -Laurie Riley
"Work on sight-reading! The very best readers can cut their preparation
time in half." -Nancy Allen
"Listen and feel the expressive qualities of the music you are studying
or performing and your playing will not only be correct but also
musical." - Patricia Jaeger
"Sometimes the most simple compositions can be the most beautiful."
- Sally Maxwell
"There is nothing difficult, there are only new things, unaccustomed
things." - Carlos Salzedo
"It is actually quite easy to teach a student to play a piece. It's
another thing altogether to teach that student to think." - Suzanne W.
Guy
"Guessing never saves time. Guessing never improves learning." -Barbara
Fackler
"If I do not practice one day, I know it. If I do not practice the next,
the orchestra knows it. If I do not practice the third, the whole world
knows it." -Ignac Paderewski
"Your teacher can only tell you what to practice. The learning is up to
you." -Barbara Fackler
"A great work of art is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty." - Nadia Boulanger
"The only way to do something is to do it." -Carlos
Salzedo
"... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar,
which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he
borrowed from, but he actually arranged the works of Mozart and other
classical composers for guitar, something that had never been done
before ... Segovias' style is not slick or contrived, but it's still
very clean and his timing is impeccable ... it's got a feeling of
casual elegance, as if he's sitting around the house in Spain with a
jug of wine, just playing from the heart." - Roger McGuinn / Byrds
"Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes." - Bette Midler
"You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden
dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself." -
Diana Ross
"You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it." - Barbra Streisand
"I don't like to dwell on the past." - Tina Turner