How to Play the MacArthur Harp
   Book and CS Tape

Book cover
Includes instructional cs tape
Front Hall Enterprises 1986
In this manual I ascribe a number to each string, similar to the tablature used around nineteen hundred for old flat harp-zithers.. Melodies are also written out in standard notation, with able assistance from Lani Herrmann.The second half of the book and of the tape features tunes ranging from simple to complex
  • Mary Had a Litttle Lamb, Aunt Rhody,Twinkle Twinkle, Skip to My Lou
  • My Bonnie, Yankee Doodle
  • Early One Morning, Riddle Song, Brandy Leave Me Alone
  • Gary Owen, Speed the Plow, Petronella, Haste to the Wedding
  • Houghton House, St. Anne's Reel, Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself,
  • Silver Spear, MacArthur Road by Dave Richardson
  • Cassette coverMargaret's Waltz by Patrick Shuldham Shaw, Peek-a-boo Waltz
  • Southwind, Sheebeg and Sheemore,
  • Morgan Magan, Fanny Power, Planxty Hewlett by O'Carolan
  • Drunken Sailor, Cock Robin
  • The Black Nag, The Rights of Man, Brian Boru, Morpath Lasses
  • Go From My Window
  • Pigs Can See the Wind, Dark North Sea, songs by Dave Goulder
  • Diamonds of Derry, song from H.H. Flanders Collection
  • Old Tune

 
 
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