The Small Harp by Alison Kinnaird The Small Harp A Step by Step Tutor by Alison Kinnaird This book includes advice on buying and maintaining a harp, a basic guide to musical motion, lessons and exercises for two, three and four fingers, advice on arranging music etc. It also contains 40 tunes varying from elementary to advanced, with historical notes and information on the tunes. Comes with accompanying 60 minute CD Buy this music now    Score: £14.95 + p&p

The Small Harp
A step by step tutor by Alison Kinnaird

There can be little to replace the one-to-one relationship between teacher and pupil, but in the past few years there has been an increasing demand for a self-tutor for the small harp from students who live in areas where, for one reason or another, a teacher is not regularly accessible. Also musicians, who can already play the instrument, have expressed interest in the traditional style techniques used in Scottish and Irish music.

This book contains -
• Advice on buying and maintaining a clarsach.
• Tuning a clarsach.
• A basic guide to Musical Notation.
• Instruction on sitting at the harp, arm, hand and finger positions.
• Lessons and exercises for two, three and four fingers.
• Chords, scales, arpeggios and moving around the harp.
• A section on ornamentation in the traditional style, with exercises on simple to advanced grace-note techniques.
• 40 tunes, varying from elementary to advanced.
• Historical notes and information on the tunes.
• Advice on arranging music.
• Tunes to arrange yourself
• The accompanying CD demonstrates the lessons in the book.

ALISON KINNAIRD M.B.E.
One of Scotland’ s leading clarsach (small harp) players. She has a degree in Celtic Studies and Archaeology, and studied the Scottish harp with the late Jean Campbell from the age of 14. She has made three records and has published collection’s of music, all of which draw on her historical research into the Scottish harp, her deep knowledge of traditional music, and her insight into the expressive nature of the instrument. Her records were the first to re-explore the clarsach as a solo instrument within the Scottish tradition. Received with much critical acclaim, they have done much to encourage the growing appreciation of Scottish harp music.

On the enclosed CD Alison Kinnaird demonstrates -

• Tuning your Small Harp
• Lessons and Exercises 1-6
• Beginners’ Tunes
• Simple Ornamentation
• More Complicated Ornamentation
• Composite Decorations
• An Oral Lesson on a more advanced tune

Composer/Arranger:	Alison Kinnaird
Instrumentation:	Lever Harp
Level:	For Beginner but includes work to an advanced level
Format:	Bound
Size:	A4
Total Pages:	90
ISBN:	0-9511204-2-5
Our Ref:	SM008
Publisher:	Kinmor Music
Edition/Year:	1996
Origin:	UK

Sample of a music page for the book. See also sample tutor page below

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