Hi Jon: Not being familiar with the harp other than enjoying one played well, I may be offering you advise or solutions that rank up there with screen doors on submarines. However, have you considered a study and applied method involving some sort of figured base? In figured base you are supplied with the base line and a series of numbers that designate chord inversions. Do you think this might work for you? As I remember in Guitar related fake books most of the time things were set up around a chord progression.
Just a thought Vance Wood. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lute List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 1:56 AM Subject: Notations > To those on the Lute List who wonder why this harp related question is sent > to you as well as the harplist, it is because you all have some experience > with alternate notations/tabulations. > > I'm looking at years of collection of vocal and instrumental music and > trying to figure a way to make a sort of "fake book" for the harp. Lute > tabulation is relative to the strings and frets, so isn't key dependant. The > harp has strings tuned to fixed notes, and therefore the staff notation is > key dependant - as each string has a fixed pitch and there are no frets. I'd > like to set a notation readable for harp that is pitch independant, set the > levers for the key and start on the chosen tonic. The best I've come up with > so far is to use a full grand staff without a clef, but that still has the > readability problem of the "notes on the lines" and the "notes on the > spaces". I guess one answer would be to make two copies of each piece, one > with the tonic on a line and one with it on a space. Any other ideas? > > Best, Jon > > > > >
