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.

NOW INCLUDES THE DVDs for easy learning!!!

The post Rainbow of Sound™ – Book 5 – Fun Games and Techniques Book / DVD appeared first on Playharp.

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.

BOOK INCLUDES:

• Angels We Have Heard on High
• Away in A Manger
• Cahnukah, Chanukah,
• Deck The Halls
• Ding, Dong, Merrily On High
• God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
• Good King Wenceslas
• Hanerot Halalu
• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
• If The People Lived Their Lives
• Il Est Ne, Le Divine Enfant
• In The Bleak MidWinter
• It Came Upon The Midnight Clear
• Joy To The World
• Little Dove
• O Come, O Come, Emanuel
• Silent Night
• The First Nowell
• Thula Kleziyo
• We Three Kings
• What Child Is This?

NOW INCLUDES THE DVDs for easy learning!!!

The post Rainbow of Sound™ – Book 6 – Songs of Light Festivals Book / DVD appeared first on Playharp.

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.

NOW INCLUDES THE DVDs for easy learning!!!

The post Rainbow of Sound™ – Book 4 – A Study of Sharps and Flats Book / DVD appeared first on Playharp.

The Emerald Harp 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.

NOW INCLUDES THE DVDs for easy learning!!!

The post Rainbow of Sound™ – Book 3 – The Emerald Harp Book / DVD appeared first on Playharp.

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.

NOW INCLUDES THE DVDs for easy learning!!!

The post Rainbow of Sound™ – Book 2 – A Second Harp Book / DVD appeared first on Playharp.

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.

NOW INCLUDES THE DVDs for easy learning!!!

NEW!  We now have the Rainbow of Sound Book 1 translated in Dutch!  This book
can be obtained from De Troubadour Harpen in the Netherlands!  Enjoy!  Book 2 will
will be out very soon!

The post Rainbow of Sound™ – Book 1 – A First Harp Book / DVD appeared first on Playharp.