Thistledown Stephen Dunstone

Thistledown Slightly Mixed Ability though generally quite easy Three Part Harp Ensemble Please click the "About this work & Performance Notes" heading below for further details This book is supplied as a score and set of 3 parts   Buy this music now £8.00 +p&p

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Thistledown is based on a simple but beguiling chord sequence that I was familiar with even when I was a schoolboy: pupils who didn’t want to do their‘official’ practice would happily bang it out on the piano, in all kinds of different rhythmic manifestations, sometimes as a duet which non-pianists could join in with using just the index finger of each hand to play a descending scale sequence that suited the harmony.

I’ve used the harmonic pattern in a gentle combination with my version of the descending scales motif so those parts are easily manageable for inexperienced harpists, and easily memorised. What gives the piece its extra magical quality, though, is the melody that I introduce in bar 15. This soars above the other parts, developing and changing in every ‘verse’, like a story carried on the gentle breeze, drifting with the thistledown across the landscape.

Title:	Thistledown
Composer:	Stephen Dunstone
Instrumentation:	3 Lever or Pedal Harps
Level:	Slightly Mixed Ability though generally quite easy
Format:	A4 stapled score and set of 3 parts
Weight:	96gm
ISMN:	--
Our Ref:	SD1014 Pink Edition
Publisher:	Stephen Dunstone
Distributor:	Creighton's Collection
Edition/Year:	2006
Origin:	UK