AHJ, Vol. 2 No. 1, Spring 1969

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in the harp and piano works is a difficult one if a modern harp and a modern piano are used. One wonders whether it was a severe miscalculation on Dussek's part, but all doubts disappear and there are no balance problems at all when an early harp and an early piano are used. The instruments, the one sweet and sonorous, the other marvelously jangly, small-toned but penetrating, give with no effort whatsoever the most wonderful blend and combination of sounds. Naturally, one regrets that Dussek did not live to discover the possibilities of Sebastian Erard's double-action harp which had no harmonic limits whatsoever, but though this would have benefited the repertory for solo harp, it is difficult to see that it could have produced anything more exciting than the Opus 69 duos. BABYLONIAN HARP Dr. Robert Biggs of the University of Chicago, who so very kindly provided us with an article on the harp in Sumeria has pointed out two articles dealing with the tuning systems of Babylonia. The articles are by David Wulstan and by 0. R. Gurney, and appear in the periodical Iraq, XXX, ( 1968) . Of special interest is Wulstan's article which concludes that the Babylonians had a system of tuning corresponding in large part with that of the modal system of ancient Greece. Moreover, he speculates that the occasional use of a thin string (with an attendant notch cut into the structure of the harp at one end to account for the fact that a thinner string requires more length to bring it to the needed pitch for its place in the mode) was probably used for ease in finding one's way about a large instrument, in exactly the same way we today use red C's and Blue F's. With the examination of modern arched harps, such as those of South-East Asia, and with the increasing knowledge of the modes used in tuning, we come ever closer to an accurate picture of the harps of ancient times. Of the actual music that was played, we shall probably have little or no knowledge, leaving us with only wistfully pleasant speculation about how it sounded. 71te S«mmee 1taep eotonp o/ o'lmeeiea CAMDEN, MAINE THE SALZEDO SCHOOL A <strong>No</strong>n-Profit Institution ALICE CHALIFOUX, Director For Inf ormatfon Address: ALICE CHALIFOUX, 115 South Lane, Chagrin Falls, Ohio 14 AMERICAN HARP JOURNAL
NEW RELEASES compiled by Lucy Lewis MUSIC ( For harp solo unless otherwise indicated) ADLER, SAMUEL, Introduction and Capriccio, Southern Music Publishing Company, Inc., $1.50 ARNELL, RICHARD, Music for Flute, Violin, Viola and Harp, Southern Music Publishing Company, Inc., Score and parts $4.00 BACH, J. C. (von Wurtzler), Concerto in D Major for Harp and Strings, Lyra Music Company, set $4.00 BACH, J. S. (Paret), Sarabande from 'Cello Suite Number Six, Lyra Music Company, $.75 BACH, J. S. (Owens) Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring for Solo Harp, Lyra Music Company, $1.50 --Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring for Two Harps, Lyra Music Company, $1.50 BACH, J. S. (Salzedo), Sixth French Suite for Two Harps, Lyra Music Company, $3.00 BACH, K. P. E. (Zingel), Sonata in G, Edition Breitkopf (Associated Music Publishers) $2.00 BARTOK, BELA (Jardanyi), An Evening in the Village, Edite Musica Budapest (Boosey and Hawkes) $1.00 BROWN, RAYNOR, Concertina for Harp and Brass Quintet, Avant Music (International Music Service), set $7.00 BURKHARD, PAUL, Das Examen for SPRING/<strong>1969</strong> Mezzo-Soprano and Harp, Universal Edition (International Music Service) $3.60 CRESTON, PAUL, Olympia, Opus 94, G. Schirmer, $1.50 DELLO JOIO, NORMAN, Bagatelles, E. B. Marks, $2.00 DELTOUR, EMILE, Concertina in Jazz, Elkan-Vogel Company, $3.00 DEVCIC, NATKO, Structures Transparentes, Gerig Edition (International Music Service), $1.25 DEVOS, GERARD, Methode de Harpe, Elkan-Vogel Company, $14.75 --Pieces Breves Contemporaines, Elkan Vogel Company, $6.00 FAURE, GABIEL (Owens), Berceuse for Flute or Violin or 'Cello and Harp, Lyra Music Company, $1.50 FOX, CHARLES, Ancient Dance (after Ravel), Southern Music Publishing Company, Inc., $1.00 GODEFROID, FELIX, Etude de Concert, Lyra Music Company, (reprint) $1.00 HALETZKI, PAUL, Intermezzo Lirico, Riccardo Edition (International Music Service), $1.25 --Konzertetude fur Harf e (klavier), Ric- Chester E. Groth Music Co. Distributor of the world fa1nous I ~ ' Oberrna~yer Sto rnherr,I JJ,rn ic/1 J 'Cl1J} • • - International c;olu \led al Winner 915 Marquette Ave. So. Minneilpolis,Minn. 55402 15
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