Music for harp Sightreading for Harp Book Two Anna Dunwoodie & Lisa Williamson

Sightreading for Harp Book Two Book Two is approximately grades 3-5 progressively getting harder. The examples in this book have been written so lever harps have to set a lever (in about half of the examples) at the beginning and pedal harpist will have to change a pedal somewhere through it. We've achieved this by writing the accidental only in one octave and using it as a natural in the rest. By the end of the book they should be confidently playing in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 3/8 and 6/8, from 3 flats to 4 sharps, 3 note chords, all rhythms including all dotted notes and runs of 4 semiquavers and a wide range of dynamics, articulation and tempo marking. The first half of the exercises are only 8 bars long progressing to 16 bars for the last 25 or 30 examples! So there are 180 exercises in total! 97 pages. Buy this book now   £20.00 + p&p

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Sightreading for Harp Book Two

Book Two is approximately grades 3-5 progressively getting harder. The examples in this book have been written so lever harps have to set a lever (in about half of the examples) at the beginning and pedal harpist will have to change a pedal somewhere through it. We've achieved this by writing the accidental only in one octave and using it as a natural in the rest. By the end of the book they should be confidently playing in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 3/8 and 6/8, from 3 flats to 4 sharps, 3 note chords, all rhythms including all dotted notes and runs of 4 semiquavers and a wide range of dynamics, articulation and tempo marking. The first half of the exercises are only 8 bars long progressing to 16 bars for the last 25 or 30 examples! So there are 180 exercises in total! 97 pages.

Foreword

As harp teachers we have been constantly frustrated by the lack of sightreading resources for our instrument. To help overcome this, we started writing sightreading for our own students. Two heads are always better than one, so we combined our compositions and compiled this book. It is a resource book rather than a tutor, and has been designed to give students sufficient practice at an intermediate level. Please respect the copyright on this book.

Contents

LEVEL E --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 1
Time Signatures: Simple Duple, Triple and Quadruple - Crotchet Beat
Keys: Majors and minors (all forms) with up to 4 sharps and 3 flats
Note Values: quaver, crotchet, minim, dotted minim, semibreve.
Rest Values: Semibreve, minim and crotchet rests,
Dynamics and Tempo: m, mp, mf, f, Andante, Moderato, Allegretto
Features: 8 bars, hands together, tied notes, syncopation, 2-note chords, fixed lever/pedal settings,

LEVEL F ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Page 31
Time Signatures: As above, plus Compound Duple (dotted crotchet beat)
Keys: As above
Note Values: As above, plus semiquaver, dotted quaver, dotted crotchet,
Rest Values: As above, plus quaver
Dynamics and Tempo: As above, plus crescendo, decrescendo, diminuendo, marcato, ritardando, a tempo, legato and appropriate abbreviations: Allegro, Adagio
Features: 8 bars, Simple pedal changes, Thumb and 4th finger slides, 3 and 4- note chords,(arpeggiated and non-arpeggiated)

LEVEL G ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 61
Time Signatures: As above, plus Simple Triple (quaver beat)
Keys: As above
Note Values: As above, plus semiquavers (groups of two and four)
Dynamics and Tempo: As above, plus accelerando, a tempo, leggiero, dolce, lento, largo, allegro and more advanced performance directions
Features: 8, 12, 16 bars, triplets, fermata, pres de la table, glissando, lever/pedal slides, étouffées, crossing hands 8va.

LEVER AND PEDAL INDICATIONS
Lever settings in addition to the key signature are indicated using semibreves with appropriate accidentals at the beginning. These are separated from the start of the exercise by a double bar-line.
Pedal settings are indicated in the usual manner BUT may be positioned either between the two staves OR below the stave.

Series:	Sightreading for Harp
Title:	Book 2
Composers:	Anna Dunwoodie & Lisa Williamson
Instrumentation:	Harp
Level:	Beginners (Grades 3-5)
Format:	Wire bound book
Size:	A4
Weight:	370gm
ISMN: EU edition	979-0-57046-152-3
Our Ref:	SM0485
Publisher:	Anna Dunwoodie & Lisa Williamson
Edition/Year:	EU Edition - November 2014 - Creighton's Collection
Origin:	Wales, UK

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