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Study of the Treble Clef - Guidelines for Parents and Teachers
Stories for free improvisation - suitable for young children
This book contains a story about the different elements that we live in. The
music reflects the poetry, alliteration and story line. Notes of the treble
clef are introduced through means of color energies. Children as young as
4-5 can benefit from this book. Until they reach 7, I prefer that the book
be used as a tool to stimulate their creativity at the harp rather than jump
into note reading.
Study of the Bass Clef - Delightful Songs
This is a continuation of Book 1. The songs that were introduced in Book one
now appear with left hand accompaniment. There are two pages of Daily
Exercises which help train the hand to "automatically" reach for various
types of configurations of chords. Basic rhythm and musical terms are also
introduced in this book.
An Enchanting Celtic Story by Barbara Yule
and Music from Christina’s recording, The Emerald Harp
Barbara Yule McDermott wrote a delightful story titled the Emerald Harp. It is a story of a young girl who lives in Scotland and her adventures into the Elfin Kingdom and about the beautiful Fairy Queen who played a shimmering Emerald Harp. Arrangements of the selections that are found on Christina's Emerald Harp Recording are found in this book.
They include: The Dark Isle,
Childgrove, Danny Boy, Greensleeves, Maids of Mourne Shore, My Plaidie,
Avondale, Captain O'Keane, Star of County Down and many more.
A Welsh Story by Joanna Vale
Welsh Songs arranged by Christina
Joanna writes of a young lad, Gabriel who lives in Wales. It is his story of
how he learns compassion and how to take care of the world we live in.
Arrangements of Welsh songs - All Through the Night, A Harp of Gold, Grief and Tragedy, The AshGrove, The Queen and other songs are presented in addition to original compositions by Christina. Christina's newest compositions, Anam Cara (Soul Friend) and Annwvyn (Mystical Otherworld) appear in this book.
This book also teaches about the use of Levers to make sharps and flats on the harp.
This book is filled with games and tools to help trigger the imagination to
compose and create your own music. Some of the topics are: Shapes and
Music, Colors and Music, Numbers and Music, Words and Music, The Form of Music, Rhythmic Music. In the back of the book is a game that provides
endless hours of joy in coming up with new motifs! The book is filled with
wonderful little poems created by Poetess, Hortense Gardiner Gates. She was an influential woman in Christina's young childhood who taught her the power of creating with words.
This book is filled with lovely arrangements of Christmas Carols, Songs for Channukah and Kwanza. Each piece is uniquely arranged with optimun interesting sound combinations using few notes. All books present music for harps that have levers or for harps that are in the key of C with no levers. The beautiful artwork is done by Marguerite Davis of Pennsylvania.
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