This book is intended to supply the beginning harpist with the material needed for the first one to two years of study by a student who has had no prior musical training. Includes lessons on notation and rhythm, using two fingers, using three fingers, triads, inverted triads, key signatures, chords, using four fingers, and triplets.
Musical Terms; Practical Advice; Harp Structure; Notation; Notes on the Harp; Tuning; Position; Note Finders; Notes and Rhythms; Dotted Notes Skips and Steps; More Skips and Steps; Skipping Rope and Stepping Stones; Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Church Bells; Using Two Fingers; Japanese Sunset and Intervals; Carnival; Unbroken Thirds and Bunny Hop; Using Three Fingers; Three-Note Scales; Blind Mice Song and Ryhmin Song; Notes on Triads; Triads; Little Harper; New Division of Beats; Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms; New Techniques and Buzzing Bee; New Division of Beats and Spanish Dance; The Inverted Triad; Minor Keys; Arpeggiated Triads; The Little Black Swans; Harmonizing a Melody; Sakura and Mary Had a Little Lamb; Key Signatures; Key of F Major; Boating; Four Fingers; Dominant 7th Chord; Added 6th Chords Skyscrapers; Valse; Happy Birthday and Key of D Minor; Allegretto; Jingle Bells; Triplets and Ballerina; When the Young Leaf Buds; Key of G Major; Butterflies; He is Born; Key of E minor; Greensleeves