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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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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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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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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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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As a follow-up to my previous two blog posts on listening I did a Harp Tuesday episode to try to demonstrate what exactly I mean by phrasing, or the space between the notes! I take a listen to three different recordings of a single bar from Chopin’s Nocturne, Op. 9 No. 2. Part 1: focused
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In listening, part 1, I mentioned closing one’s eyes when listening to remove the visual stimuli. This can have much more of an effect than we think, for example check out this illusion! I also talked about ignoring the sound quality of the recording to focus on phrasing. Both of those tie into what I
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(this was originally sent out to my email newsletter subscribers – join my list here) Hi all, We’re often surrounded by music; it can be a soundtrack to everything we do (exercise, work, cooking, reading, watching movies, etc.) and yet it can be very rare to actually sit down and just listen to something, focused
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I recently published a music video of the tremendously fun Alla Turca Jazz and then yesterday I published a video of a performance from 2018 of the Prelude and Clair de Lune from Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque. Hope you enjoy! :)
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