Irish Harp Music. Part One
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- Опубликовано: 16 апр 2017
- This video represents my second year of work on the Celtic harp. All selections are taken from "50 Irish Melodies for all Harps," arranged by Sylvia Woods and are presented here with her kind permission. To order this book, see here: www.harpcenter.com/category/sy....
If you like this music, please see the playlist of all my harp recordings, over eight hours' worth of music: • Celtic Harp: Castles o... .
For early music on various instruments, poetry, short stories, and art, please visit my website at www.verseandsong.com.
TYSVM for sharing this. Greetings from The PHILIPPINES!
I love . i just love irish harp. The most mystical instrument in the world. I can listen endlessly.
I'm glad you like it, Konstancja. I hope you'll listen to some of my original harp music written in the same style.
* Lyrics by
0:02 - Avenging and Bright [*Thomas Moore - C Maj]
1:35 - Believe Me if all those Enduring Young Charms [*Thomas Moore - G Maj]
3:59 - Bendemeer’s Stream [*Thomas Moore - G Maj]
6:16 - Castle of Dromore [C Maj]
8:47 - Cockles & Mussels [G Maj]
10:59 - The Cruiskeen Lawn [A Min]
13:15 - Londonderry Air (Danny Boy) [* - G Maj]
16:35 - The Dear Little Shamrock [*Andrew Cherry - G Maj]
18:46 - Salley Garden [*WB Yeats - G Maj]
21:05 - The Famine Song Farewell [*Thomas Moore - G Maj]
22:16 - The Fanaid Grove [E min]
24:11 - Farewell - You Welcome the Hour [*Thomas Moore - G Maj]
26:36 - Farewell to Liverpool [C Maj]
28:21 - Flight of the Earls [G Maj]
30:20 - The Foggie Dew [*Father Patrick O’Neill - E min]
32:37 - The Gartan Mother’s Lullaby [*Seosamh MacCathmhaoil - E min]
34:50 - Gentle Maiden [G Maj]
37:25 - The Girl I Left Behind Me [G Maj]
38:51 - Goodnight [G Maj]
40:33 - Has Sorrow thy Young Days Shaded? [*Thomas Moore - G Maj]
42:39 - I Know my Love [G Maj]
44:15 - Kathleen Mavourneen [*Marion Crawford / Music by Frederick Nicolls Crouch - G Maj]
47:36 - The Kerry Dancing [*James Lyman Molloy - D Maj]
50:35 - Killarney [*M.W. Balfe - G Maj]
53.34 - Lark in the Clear Air [*Sir Samuel Ferguson - G Maj]
Hallo Stephen, dein Harfenspiel gefällt mir sehr. Die Liebe zur keltischen Harfenmusik entstand bei mir als ich im Alter von 16 Jahren Alan Stivell in einem sehr kleinen Kreis in einer Kirche an der bretonischen Küste gehört habe. Es war ein mystisches und mythisches Erlebnis. Er spielte bei Kerzenlicht und bei Gewitter direkt an der Steilküste bis tief in die dunkle Nacht hinein. Zwei Schulfreunde und ich waren mit dem Fahrrad aus dem Ruhrgebiet bis in die Bretagne gefahren und dann von unserem dreiwöchigen Quartier in der Bretagne zu seinem Konzert geradelt. Aufgrund der Wetterbedingungen haben wir damals die ganze Nacht bei Gewitter geschützt vor der Kirche verbracht. Liebe Grüße, Gerhard P.S. Im Alter werde ich sentimental und erinnere ich mich. Den Danny Boy habe ich gerne auf der Gitarre gespielt und auch gesungen.
Hallo wieder, Gehard! Ich habe diese Stücke im zweiten Jahr meines Harfenspiels aufgenommen, und, ehrlich gesagt, spiele ich sie wahrscheinlich zu langsam, obgleich kein Tempo angegeben wird. Falls Du Dich weiter für meinen Harfenspiel interessierst, bitte schau mal auf diese Spielliste: ruclips.net/p/PLg2GtsZ0EeLsbzHY3kVCcnGSdUn6VmfM7. Die meisten sind meine eigenen Kompositionen im alten, herkömmlichen, keltischen Stil, vowon ich vor allem „Die Aufbewahrung des Feuers I und II” (nach einem Zitat von Gustav Mahler) empfehle. Ich glaube, sie sind meine beste Arbeit. Das ist eine sehr schöne Erinnerung, die Du mitgeteilt hast. Deine netten Kommentare haben mir auch ein paar Sachen aus der Innsbrucker Zeit in die Erinnerung zurückgebracht.
Ich habe von Alan Stivell zum ersten Mal im Französischunterricht in den 80er/90er Jahren am Gymnasium gehört.
Inzwischen lebe ich seit über 10 Jahren in Frankreich, meinem Seelenland.❤
Viele Grüße aus der Haute-Saône 🇨🇵
Oh God, I love this so much.
The Harp is wonderfully Celtic
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There is something INCREDIBLY soothing about harp music
Happily noting Mary O'Hara's influence. Thank you for this.
Thank you SO MUCH, Stephen! ... Sheer, Heavenly Grace in your fingertips! - I shall never understand how there are not REAMS of appreciative comments here. I have just stumbled across your exquisite art, almost at Halloween 2019!
So true !
Perfect piece for my morning yoga-streching session ,, enjoying !
Perfect
georgeous
Beautiful
Lovely playing.
Very sensitive playing !....beautiful ! Thank you.
Your progress from year one to two is evident - keep posting!
Brilliant !!! Truly Heavenly thank you and all the best !!! Slainte !!!
Wonderful selection of beautiful, recognizable songs. Thank you so much!
I just found this -- thanks for sharing and do keep up the good work, the good art, the love of music.
Thank you. These are beautiful renditions of the songs. :)
Thank you for this.
Amazing
Nice! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you very much! I have just started playing these and I prefer to play the pieces I've heard before. I've been looking up songs I haven't heard and found this wonderful playlist, so you are saving me a lot of time. Thank you so much again. Lovely playing!
Thank you.
Beautiful playing! There is a lot of feeling in it and it doesn't feel rushed. I am enjoying it a lot and am subscribing!
Thank you. I hope you'll look at my other harp videos. I'm not playing harp right now because I'm working on other musical projects, but I hope to get back to it before too long. So, stay tuned.
@@stephenarndt1943 Lovely Heavenly thank you so much returning to this great selection for the third listen !
So much more satisfying than all the ersatz, New Age-y "meditation music" out there. This is the real thing.
Thank you, Mary. I couldn't agree more. I hope you'll check out some of my original harp work, written in the same style.
@@stephenarndt1943 I have listened to more and plan to sample everything!
It's very kind of you to take the time, Mary. I really appreciate it and hope you find something to your liking.
Very nice. I am listening to this as I work at my computer. I recently bought a small Irish harp and am thinking of buying that book.
I'm glad you're enjoying the music. All of Sylvia Woods' books are good. Under "Show More" you will find a link to a playlist with all my harp music. I have four original collections of twenty-five pieces each, all written in a traditional Celtic style, and the scores are available for free on my website, if you'd like to try some of them. Best of luck in your harp playing.
@@stephenarndt1943 Thank you
¡Beautiful irish music! 🎼🇮🇪🇻🇪🤠👍We have harp music too but very very different, not even close. 😄 Juan Vicente Torrealba for example is a well known harp musician in our country.
This is a sample of venezuelan harp music, it normally has a faster tempo and played along with other local traditional instruments: ttps://ruclips.net/video/euvC1q_kAC0/видео.html . Venezuelan harps by local luthiers have a different design too. Key words: "Arpa LLanera" or "Arpa Recia" 🇻🇪
This is an example of how the venezuelan harp is played: ruclips.net/video/9504ZMQTBlM/видео.html
Thank you for listening and for the references. Harps have been played in many different cultures going all the way back to ancient Egypt, Persia, and Mesopotamia. I'm glad you like the Irish music and hope you'll take a look at the playlist of all my harp recordings.
Tempo Giusto
Sono lieto che pensi cosí, ma io non ne sono tanto sicuro. (Es freut mich, dass Du so denkst, aber ich bin mir nicht so sicher).
Get it i guess gah damn😩💯❤🔥
If you like this music, I invite you to listen to my recent collections, "The Preservation of Fire" in two parts: ruclips.net/video/UxEp_PwpfG4/видео.html and ruclips.net/video/fFiV5dnHVN/видео.html. Also, the complete playlist of all my harp recordings can be found here: ruclips.net/video/RKsjKPGxldc/видео.html.
Awesome. I will use it to help me work through the book too. I also want to learn to use the harp to accompany my singing (instead of the guitar)
Thank you, Gavin. I wish I could sing! I can't--though if I could, I probably would never have learned to play the instruments I do. An inability can be both a blessing and a curse. I hope you'll check out my more recent harp postings. There's a playlist under "Show More."
Loved your playing. Your name derives
from the Greek meaning "crown". You wear your crown well.
Thank you, Paul. I do hope you'll listen to some of my more recent harp work as well, all of it written in the same general style. By the way, I have spent thousands of hours of my life reading ancient Greek texts. Perhaps you have too. Good to meet a fellow lover of Greek.
Beatiful but I wish we could see what each piece is called. But many thanks.
I love the sound of this harp. I have a Lyon & Healy pedal harp and it sounds too ‘thumpy’ compared to this instrument. What is the difference….the strings….the soundboard? I have to put a little piezo mic on it and run it through a small stage amp to get the sustain I am craving.
I have just the opposite problem. My bass strings sustain for about fifteen seconds, which really muddles the harmony. I ended up winding a strip of felt between them to dampen them. I've thought about using gut strings, which I use on all my lutes, but they go out of tune so easily that I would spend more time tuning than playing.
May I use this music as a backing track for a video I'm making on the Ancient Irish Bards? Full accreditation will be given to your channel/Sylvia Woods. It's simply beautiful and would perfectly fit with the project I'm working on.
I am so sorry not to respond sooner, but I never received a notification of your comment and just discovered it by accident late last night. Of course, you may use any of my music in any way you want anytime you want. Good luck with your video.
@@stephenarndt1943 Go raibh mile maith agat a chara! I'll ping you when it's done and link back here in the description.
6:16
Not bad at all for a novice. Sounds like you have good technique though maybe the phrasing could be improved by varying the dynamics a little? It could also be my headphones, too though. Good work.
Is that a painting of turlough o carolan.
When I first found it, I was under the impression that it was. Now, I'm not so sure. I haven't been able to relocate it, and Google searches for his portrait don't show it.
What harp do you use? Like the sound!
It's a Dustry Springs FH34 in Walnut.
@@stephenarndt1943Thanks! Sounds great!
Could you please tell me who is the man in the picture ? Thanks
It may be Turlough O'Carolan (some write his last name as Carolan), but I am not sure. Unfortunately, I no longer know where I found the picture, and I haven't been able to relocate it.
@@stephenarndt1943 Thank you very much indeed-
MAITH THU...
go raibh maith agat
You are self taught? How did you do that? This is awesome!
I have taught myself twelve instruments and am now learning my thirteenth. Given the wealth of instructional videos on the internet, it is much easier to be self-taught now than it was in the pre-internet days, when I learned most of my instruments.
I'm sure there are different ways to do it, but the following is what I do: (1) learn to read music notation or tablature depending on the instrument, which is extremely simple and really takes just a single day at most. (2) Using a method book or videos, learn the proper way to hold the instrument and the basics of hand position and technique. (3) Learn the proper way of producing a sound (blowing into the instrument, plucking a string, bowing a string, etc.). (4) Begin with simple practice material, practice consistently, and gradually increase the difficulty of the material. (5) At a certain point, do technical exercise aimed at overcoming your weakness on the instrument.
Although it is not absolutely necessary, I believe that it is extremely helpful to understand the music you are playing, for which you need a fair amount of music theory. To that end, I have read books on melody construction, classical harmony, counterpoint, chord progressions, and jazz theory.
Well, that's what I can tell you. I don't claim you'll become a virtuoso this way--I certainly haven't--but I think you can learn enough to play some enjoyable music and have a wonderful time doing it.
@@stephenarndt1943 Thank you very much for giving me such detailed answers. I admire your passion for learning alone and be so commited to it. Do you have a full time job and a family or where do you take your time? I am a full time mother, have three teens. I started learning the harp approx. 7 years ago. I had a harp teacher for 2,5 years. I learned pritty well to hold the instrument and music theory. But I did many other things, too. My family, I had to write my Masters degree and I had to work. That was too much for me and I got a burn out. The first thing I did, I skipped the harp. I couldn't touch it for the last 5 years. I was even thinking about selling it but I know, I would regret it forever. I will not sell it. You are an inspiration to me. Do you play in your videos all 13 instruments you play?
I have recordings of all my instruments (except the one I have been playing for only three weeks) on my website, but there are three, I think (snare drum, soprano recorder, and ukulele) that are not represented on RUclips.
You clearly have your hands full, Nicki, and I can appreciate your trouble in finding time to play. I myself went a number of years without playing anything while I was earning two Master's Degrees and a Ph. D., teaching myself ten foreign languages, and then working full-time. Although we do not have children, I do have a wife, a home, and an acre's worth of land to maintain. Fortunately, I was able to retire early and devote myself to my multiple interests.
I'm glad to hear you have decided not to sell your harp and agree that you would regret it forever if you did. Perhaps there is one thing I can recommend for you. Most people, even very busy people, have more time than they realize. I recommend that you make a grid with seven columns, one for each day of the week. and with enough horizonal rows to divide your waking hours into half-hour, or even fifteen-minute, segments. Then, block out everything that is already scheduled on a recurring basis (shopping, meal preparation, cleaning, driving the kids around, etc.) and see what blocks of time you have left. Chances are you can find fifteen minutes or even half an hour a day to play harp. Of course, that is not a lot, but it will be enough to maintain whatever level of skill you have already achieved. You might even have a day or two in the week when you have more time for the harp. In a few short years, your teens will be out of the house and on their own, and then you will probably have much more time for your music.
P.S. I see that you asked again about my recording equipment. Did you see my first response to your question? If it's not showing up on your screen, do let me know, and I shall try again. Your second inquiry isn't showing up anywhere on my screen now, so I can't respond to it.
P.P.S. If you would like to continue this conversation through e-mail, just leave a comment on my website (verseandsong.com), and then I shall have your e-mail address, which I promise not to make public, and can write to you more at length.
@@stephenarndt1943 This is so kind from you. Thank you so much. I will, definitely, write you.
I shall look forward to it.