Introducing my new book, Transcriptions for Lever Harp!
A quick look at all 7 pieces from my new book of sheet music, available as a PDF from my online store!
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July 2020
New music book, plus a new composition!
I’ve just published a new book, Transcriptions for Lever Harp, Volume 1! Music by Bach, Godefroid, Handel, and Naderman – it’s available right now as a PDF. And I’ve also published the sheet music to my newest composition, Uncharted Shores!
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This week’s Harp Tuesday episode – Xylophonic sounds on the harp!
What are “Xylophonic Sounds” on the harp and how do you play them? Find out in this episode of Harp Tuesday :) My new composition, “Uncharted Shores“, features some xylophonic sounds, as does my composition Forgotten Summer. Uncharted Shores: Sheet Music Forgotten Summer: Sheet Music Support from my patrons helped make this video possible: https://www.patreon.com/joshlayne
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Announcing my arrangement of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue!
It’s here! I’m extremely excited to announce the publication of my arrangement of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor. I’ve been performing this iconic piece for several years now (starting in 2017 at the Rio Harp Festival). Over these past few months I’ve been entering and refining my arrangement, and now have a beautifully typeset
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Music video: Farewell to Stromness
Another recent music video, “Farewell to Stromness” by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, is part of the “Yellow Cake Revue” – a set of songs plus two piano interludes that Davies wrote to protest a proposed uranium mine on the Orkney islands in 1980. I, too, live on an island; Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
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Music video: Chanson de Mai
I recently recorded a music video of Hasselman’s lovely Chanson de Mai, paired with the beautiful wild Camas flowers (and bees!) found here in Victoria, BC: If you’re interested in learning Chanson de Mai, the sheet music is freely available at https://archive.org/details/chansondemairoma1897hass/page/2/mode/2up I also did a Harp Tuesday episode on it!
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