Playing on a Diatonic Harp? Some thoughts on flats and naturals...
Roráte Cæli is a beautiful Gregorian chant and fairly easy to play on a harp with sharping levers, but what if your harp is diatonic and doesn’t have these? The chant has two B naturals, both of them quilismas, that would be lightly and quickly sung. The remaining B’s are flatted. Given that they are […]
Gregorian Chant Harp Music for Advent Rorate Cæli
Gregorian Chant arranged for small Celtic harp For reference, here is Roráte Cæli in Gregorian neume notation. This is from the Graduale Romanum, (Solesmes) 1961, p.21 and the Liber Usualis (Solesmes), 1961, p. 353 and made freely available online at GregoBase: A Database of Gregorian Scores. Transcription by Andrew Hinkley. Here is an instrumental version of […]
Harp Music! Gregorian chant, scores, arrangements...
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