Early Harp Foundation course
This course focuses on those repertoire areas where harps are most often employed
in modern performances of Early Music.
Students should have a background in early harp or some related instrument
(modern harp, folk harp, early keyboards, lute/guitar etc).
sound-production, principles of fingering
Tuning
Monophonic songs and dance-music
Early polyphony,
Tre-cento polyphony
Ensembles
Aesthetics & Performance Practice
Principles of fingering,
Techniques for chromatics
Tuning
16th century polyphony
17th century toccatas
Dance genres
National styles: Italian, French, English, German
Early 18th century
Ensembles
Aesthetics & Performance Practice
Single-row (medieval & Gothic) harps
Italian triple harp
Continuo
Bass fingering for large harps
The origins of Continuo: 16th century accompaniment styles
Italian early 17th century: Recitative, Early Opera, Early Sonatas
High Baroque: Italian, French, English, German
Late 18th-century continuo
Directing from the continuo