Caterpillar Classics - Music for lever harp

50 pages

Caterpillar Classics contains twenty-four pieces composed from the Baroque Era through the early 20th century, including famous melodies from symphonies, operas, string quartets, chamber music and piano solos. Through learning pieces in Caterpillar Classics, harpists will learn how to interpret ornaments in Bach, understand tonal harmonic chord progressions and enter the realm of extended harmonies, all the while becoming familiar with some of the most famous melodies in the Classical repertoire. In addition to their pedagogical value, the pieces make for great performance repertoire for recitals, wedding prelude music and other events. All pieces are performable on lever harp and are arranged for the late beginner to intermediate level.

Table of Contents: 

Baroque
Menuet – Jean Baptiste Lully
Air in D Major – Henry Purcell
Polonaise – Johann Sebastian Bach
Hallelujah Chorus – George Frederic Handel
Impertinence – George Frederic Handel

Classical
Minuet in F Major – Leopold Mozart
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tyrolean Air – Ludwig van Beethoven
Ecossaise for Military Band – Ludwig van Beethoven
Bagatelle – Anton Diabelli

Romantic
Prelude, Op. 28 No. 7 – Frederic Chopin
Bear Dance – Robert Schumann
3 Barcarolle – Jacques Offenbach
Canon in A minor – Cornelius Gurlitt
Melodious Study, Op. 108 No. 14 – Ludwig Schytte
Hungarian Dance No. 5 – Johannes Brahms
Intermezzo, Op. 118 No. 5 –Johannes Brahms
Emperor Waltz – Johann Strauss
Old French Song – Peter Tchaikovsky
New World Symphony – Antonin Dvorak
Musetta’s Waltz – Giacomo Puccini

Impressionist
Jimbo’s Lullaby – Claude Debussy
Pavane for a Dead Princess – Maurice Ravel
First Gnossienne – Erik Satie

Arranged and edited by Rachel Green

Late beginner to intermediate lever harp