Featured Harp Music
Welcome to our featured harp music section! Every quarter (March, June, September, and December) we will feature a work by one of our talented Pacific Northwest harp composers and arrangers. You are welcome to download and print a copy of this music for your personal private use. (If you wish to perform the music publicly for profit, print or publish any arrangement, or record or broadcast it, you must first contact the copyright holder for the appropriate permissions.)
Please Note: Beginning September 2023, Reigning Harps is using MP3 files to enable audio playback of Featured Harp Music scores. To hear playback of the tune, simply click the MP3 Audio link. To see or print out the score, use the PDF link.
Autumn’s Featured Harp Music:
For this season’s featured harp music we have the two Group Tunes from the 2023 PSFHS Summer Folk Harp Retreat. (If you have a PSFHS Harpers’ Songbook, please print both of these tunes and add them to your book to keep it up to date.)
Jerusalem is a hymn tune used for many formal occasions, especially in England, and was composed by Sir Hubert Parry in 1916 using words from a poem written by William Blake. The theme from Jupiter, from Gustav Holst’s orchestral suite “The Planets”, became so popular as a stand-alone piece that it too was used for a hymn tune which Holst dubbed “Thaxted” after the village in which he lived. Either of these tunes are appropriate for weddings, memorials, or other events, and both sound beautiful on the harp.
To view or print the notation, press PDF; to listen to the melodies, press MP3 Audio.
So now, on to the music…
Jupiter (Theme from “The Planets”): PDF MP3 Audio
Harp Music Archive: click here to see previous Featured Harp Music scores
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