Pre-Launch! for Harp

Pre-Launch! for Harp is a new and imaginative collection of short pieces for harpists at the start of their harp playing journey, whether on lever or pedal harp.

The pieces range from those designed to help note naming and reading, to others which use a range of techniques, exploring familiar and less familiar sounds which can be captured on the instrument to evoke the
imagery of the evocative titles.

Teachers may choose – and are indeed encouraged – to teach some of the pieces aurally, to expand the pupils’ musical facility and utilise all their learning faculties – visual, aural, kinaesthetic and intellectual memory.

The sympathetic and fun images by Sue Pollington are to help stimulate the students’ imaginations and Beartramka invites drawings from pupils for the pieces which are deliberately lacking images in the book for the possibility of featuring in a new gallery on the website.

Teachers may encourage creative students to use some of the attractive and exciting techniques and titles to create their own compositions and performances and one of the pieces has an accompaniment for the teacher to play with the pupil and encourage beginnings in ensemble playing.

Various of the pieces in Pre-Launch! for Harp feature in the Initial graded exam syllabus for harp exams of Trinity College, London.

There is much scope to add personal dynamics and fingerings which are suggested are with the aim of creating a beautiful rounded sound. In some places there were so many possible fingerings that suggesting any one fingering would have been too prescriptive.

We recognise the fact that one size does not fit all with regard to the fact that adaptations need to be made for smaller hands and fingers.

This book will be ideal as a prequel to Beartramka’s Lift-Off! for Harp.

We hope you enjoy it.

Danielle Perrett 2017

Contents

1. The Squirrel & the Woodpecker
2. FACE
3. All Cows Eat Grass
4. Every Green Bus Drives Fast
5. Granny's Boots Don't Fit Auntie
6. Happy FACE
7. Running Downstairs
8. Saturday Night at the Village Hall
9. Rippling Water
10. Slimy Frogs
11. Things that go Bump in the Night
12. Ducks Crossing the Road
13. The Cat Outside the Mouse Hole
14. Fishes swimming in the Stream
15. Creepy Crawlies
16. Two Naughty Gnomes
17. Chinese New Year
18. Slithery Snakes
19. Moon Mice
20. The Tired Cowboy
21. Uncle Ukelele
22. Coming out of the Wedding
23. Sombrero Snooze
24. Something Spooky
25. Catching Chickens
26. Countdown

 

Title	Pre-Launch! for Harp
Composers	David Gough & Danielle Perrett
Instrumentation:	Lever Harp (or pedal)
Level	Beginner
Printed Parts:	A4 stapled
Pages of music:	19 (26 works)
Weight:	115g
Our Ref:	SM0556
Publisher:	Beartramka
Edition/Year:	2017
Origin:	UK