On Monday, January 5, 2004, at 12:59 AM, Mark D Lew wrote:
Two harps are frequently used to get past pedaling problems. If you
want continuous harp sound but you're modulating a lot, a single harp
can't keep up with all the pedal changes. Instead you write for two
harps and they take turns pl
At 07:36 PM 1/5/2004, Robert Patterson wrote:
>In the Berlioz Fantastique score from Dover, I do not see how the harps
>could perform the opening of the Ball without pedals or something
>equally effective, but I do not know the history of harp pedals.
Cecil Forsyth dates the double action harp to 1
In the Berlioz Fantastique score from Dover, I do not see how the harps
could perform the opening of the Ball without pedals or something
equally effective, but I do not know the history of harp pedals.
Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 05.01.2004 23:51 Uhr, Robert Patterson wrote
I may not have seen
On 05.01.2004 23:51 Uhr, Robert Patterson wrote
> I may not have seen all the other posts on this subject, so pardon me if this
> is a duplicate. In addition to adding volumn and texture, another reason to
> use multiple harps is to avoid awkward pedal changes in chromatic passages. I
> believe as
I may not have seen all the other posts on this subject, so pardon me if this is a
duplicate. In addition to adding volumn and texture, another reason to use multiple
harps is to avoid awkward pedal changes in chromatic passages. I believe as early as
the Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique you can fi
At 11:41 PM -0600 1/4/04, Richard Huggins wrote:
There's such a breadth of experience here, I figure someone here will know
this answer: I saw two orchestra broadcasts over the holidays where two
harps were used. I'm wondering if someone can explain to me how two harps
are used, for example: doubli
On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 09:41 PM, Richard Huggins wrote:
There's such a breadth of experience here, I figure someone here will
know
this answer: I saw two orchestra broadcasts over the holidays where two
harps were used. I'm wondering if someone can explain to me how two
harps
are used,
There's such a breadth of experience here, I figure someone here will know
this answer: I saw two orchestra broadcasts over the holidays where two
harps were used. I'm wondering if someone can explain to me how two harps
are used, for example: doubling the same part (and if so, why? for greater
sou
