Live-stream concert, Oct. 3rd, 2020!
I’m performing my first live-stream concert since December, 2015! I hope you’ll join me – all the details can be found at https://www.joshlayne.com/3years/
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My music video of Bach’s Toccata arranged for lever harp!
My arrangement for lever harp of iconic Toccata in D minor, BWV 565. Sheet music for my arrangement (as well as my arrangement of the complete Toccata and Fugue for pedal harp) can be found at https://www.joshlayne.com/store/ Support from my patrons helped make this video possible: https://www.patreon.com/joshlayne
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Harp Tuesday episode 193 and 194!
Episode 193 was a look at the system I use to indicate lever changes easily and clearly in Finale. Lever changes can pose a bit of challenge to show exactly which lever is to be changed. Even if you work with a different notation software (Musescore, Sibelius, etc.) I hope this episode is helpful and
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This week’s Harp Tuesday episode! (Harmonics+Chords)
How to play a left hand chord with a harmonic on top. I talk about the various chords+harmonics in Godefroid’s take on “The Last Rose of Summer”. The pedal harp sheet music can be found at https://archive.org/details/ladernirerosedtm00gode/page/2/mode/2up I’ve arranged it for lever harp as part of my new book, “Transcriptions for Lever Harp”: https://www.joshlayne.com/store/?product=transcriptions-for-lever-harp-volume-1-downloadable-sheet-music-pdf More
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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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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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