An Advent Antiphon for Harp (2 of 7) O Adonái
Here is my Irish wire strung harp arrangement of the Great O antiphon: O Adonái: O Adonai (pdf score, one page). Like my previous arrangement, it uses free rhythm and so I intentionally blanked out the rest indications in the music notation. The tempo is approximate; feel free to play this at whatever speed feels appropriate to […]
An Advent Antiphon for Harp (1 of 7) O Sapiéntia
As promised, here’s a wire harp arrangement of the Gregorian O Sapiéntia (LU 340 in the 1934 Liber Usualis). I have the chant melody in the top staff and the text of the chant is below, in lightly shaded text, to help orient the melody in the overall arrangement. The bottom staff has an alternating […]
Update on downloadable Advent music I'm working on it! ☺️
Today I’m working on a wire harp arrangement of one of the great O Antiphons, O Sapiéntia. I’m arranging it in MuseScore, which is one of the more friendly notation programs to free rhythm treatment of chant and Early music. I’ve done this in Lily Pond but the learning curve is just too steep and […]