Harpo Beginners Book 1 - Stephen Dunstone

Standard: Beginner      Harp Type: Lever or Pedal Harp

Learn pieces by ear, Learn how to read music, Learn how to transpose pieces into different keys
Downloadable audiotracks for many of the pieces

Despite the little picture of my lever harp on the front cover, ALL the music in the Harpo Beginners books is suitable for pupils playing on either lever harps or pedal harps. However, because a lot more beginners start off on lever harps, all my references to playing in different keys are accompanied by lever-change instructions. But if you’re learning on a pedal harp, don’t despair: your teacher will translate all those instructions into “pedal-speak”, and give you a pedal version of my “Castle of Keys”, which appears on page 63. But it’s worth learning what to do on a lever harp as well, because there will quite likely be times when you find yourself having to play one, perhaps in an ensemble, and you wouldn’t want to be left out…

• 4 Read Me! 
• 5 To play in C major… 
• 6-7 Word Games 
• 8 Buy a Broom / I Love Mops / Climbdown in C 
• 9 Pushing the Boat Out / Twinkle, Twinkle… / Climbdown in F 
• 10 Trampolining / Rounding Sheep 
• 11 Leapfrog / Double Leapfrog / Skip to My Lou / Climbdown in Bb 
• 12 Greedy Guts / Barcarolle 
• 13 Time for a Snack / Climbdown in Eb 
• 14 Eggs on the Edge / Ace Café 
• 15 Breakfast in Bed / Old Baggage / Down to the Dungeons 
• 16 Reading Music (1) / Limping Ladders in C / …and in F 
• 17 Reading Music (2) / Limping Ladders in Bb / …and in Eb 
• 18 Bass Clef mnemonics / Grizzly Bear Riff 
• 19 Treble Clef mnemonics / Happy Birthday 
• 20 The Habits of Cows / The Habits of Bears / Mary Had A Little Lamb 
• 21 In the Mirror / Nasty Little Girl / There's A Hole in My Bucket 
• 22 Blank for your own bass clef pieces / Wobbledown in C / Wobbledown in F 
• 23 Blank for your own treble clef pieces / Wobbledown in Bb / Wobbledown in Eb 
• 24 Heartbeats 
• 25 Cows, Sheep and Dogs... / Dogs, Sheep and Cows… 
• 26 - 27 Time Signatures / Harpy Ever After 
• 28 Frère Jacques 
• 29 London's Burning
• 30 Key Signatures… …and Metronomes 
• 31 Easy Peasy / Lemon Squeezy 
• 32 Just As Easy / Just As Peasy / London Bridge is Falling Down
• 33 Just As Squeezy / A Touch More Lemon / Blow the Wind Southerly 
• 34 Farmyard Chorus / Mog Wants to Help
• 35 Write your own farmyard rhythms / Old MacDonald
• 36 Dangling from the Washing Line / Tightrope Walk
• 37 Tightrope Waltz / Swinging from the Washing Line / Ten Green Bottles
• 38 - 39 Spelling Test! / The Mocking Bird Song
• 40 Swaps / Plonk Plonk
• 41 Answering Back / The Faded Flower / When the Saints Go Marching In
• 42 Gooseberry Bushes / Frog in the Gooseberries
• 43 A Plague of Frogs / Gooseberry Blossom
• 44 Down by the Duckpond / Who Let the Cat Out?
• 45 Quavering / Quivering / Yankee Doodle
• 46 Creepy page
• 47 The Thing page
• 48 Wedding Bells
• 49 Synchronized Swimming / Buy Two Brooms
• 50 Olga Opanotch / Toffee in Your Teef
• 51 Buy a Broom / Bought a Broom / Sell the Broom / Pop Goes the Weasel
• 52 Olga Dananotch / Water Boatmen
• 53 I Love Mops / You Are Mad / On the Brain / Morning Has Broken
• 54 Snowflakes on the Windowpane / On Parade / A Nice Cup of Oom Cha
• 55 Wobbly Waltz / Doubleberry Bushes
• 56 There's a Hole in My Music / Mouse in the Flapjacks
• 57 Whoodle Doodle? / Making a Mockery
• 58 - 59 Fairy Dust
• 60 - 61 Lyrics…
• 62 Italian Terms
• 63 The Castle of Keys
• 64 Piano keyboard diagram / Using an electronic tuner
• 65 All the harp strings…