On Playing the Harp - Yolanda Kondonassis

• Twenty-two chapters of in-depth discussion on topics ranging from technique, practicing, memorization, and performance to tuning, history, mechanics, harpistic notation, and contemporary effects.
• More than fifty pages of targeted exercises on the major elements of harp technique with step-by-step instructions and practice suggestions.
• Over twenty detailed photo illustrations on hand position.
• Comprehensive warm-up routines in three graded levels for beginning, intermediate, and advanced/professional harpists.
• A guide to beneficial stretches for harpists and a chapter devoted to discussion of hand and body care that features an interview with one of the world's leading specialists in arts medicine.