Knuckledown Jig Stephen Dunstone

Knuckledown Jig For - Mixed Ability 3-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 £9.50 +p&p

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Knuckledown Jig

There are three parts as follows::-

Harp A
Harp B
Harp C

Knuckledown Jig was originally intended to be “Clickety Jig”, with lots of finger-clicking instead of knuckles on the soundboard, but I soon realised that any quickfire groups of quavers would be really difficult to do, and, anyway, many people find their attempts to click their fingers are more like the attempts of Michael Banks in Mary Poppins than those of the Jets and the Sharks in West Side Story, so I felt knuckles would be safer (and more dramatic).

All the knuckling is unison, but different players won’t necessarily be using the same hands as each other all the time, depending on which hands are plucking strings just before and after a bit of knuckling. I’ve worked out what seems to me to be the most practical way of using the hands for the knuckling, with tails down indicating LH and tails up indicating RH.

Because I think it’s best to keep both hands in play even if it’s not always entirely necessary, I’ve also used the tails-up / tails-down convention for the notes, but according to the following rules:

If any note in the treble clef has its tail pointing down when it would normally have been pointing up, then play it with the left hand.

Any treble notes that would normally have their tails pointing down anyway but need to be played with the left will be marked “l.h.”.

Everything else in the treble clef is to be played with the right hand.

Everything in the bass clef is to be played with the left hand.

Obviously these are just suggestions based on what works for me, but if you feel more comfortable doing things differently, go with your instincts!

In sections A and C, Harp A clearly has the melody nearly all of the time, so I haven’t needed to indicate that in the score, but Harps B and C do have a couple of tiny fragments of melodic interpolation which need to be brought out, so I’ve written “melody...” for the duration of the fragments above those bars.

In section B the melody is passed back and forth between Harps B and C most of the time, with Harp A having occasional snippets, so I’ve used “melody...” for all players where appropriate throughout the section.

Title:	Knuckledown Jig
Composer:	Stephen Dunstone
Instrumentation:	3 Lever or Pedal Harps
Level:	Mixed Ability
Format:	A4 stapled score and set of 3 A4 parts
Weight:	116gm
ISMN:	979-0-57046-440-1
Our Ref:	SD1069
Publisher:	Creighton's Collection
Printer/Distributor:	Creighton's Collection
Edition/Year:	2024
Origin:	UK