Vanderbilt Music Principal Harp Book 1: A Guidebook for the Orchestral Harpist (Revised Edition) - Bullen - Book/CD

Author: Sarah Bullen
Format: Book and CD
Instrumentation: Harp

This valuable 68-page book by Sarah Bullen, Principal Harp with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (formerly with the New York Philharmonic), includes most of the major orchestra excerpts and cadenzas with Ms. Bullen's complete fingerings, pedalings, comments, and practical advice on orchestra performance. There are chapters on audition and orchestra skills, plus an instructional CD featuring Ms. Bullen performing all of the music in the Principal Harp book. This important asset to the harp literature will be extremely useful for all harpists, especially those preparing for an audition or an orchestral career.

Cadenzas:

• Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky)
• Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Britten)
• Mother Goose (Ravel)
• Tzigane (Ravel)
• Vysehrad (Smetana)
• Capriccio Espagnol (Rimsky-Korsakov)
• Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky)

Excerpts:

• Concerto for Orchestra (Bartok)
• Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta (Bartok)
• Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Britten)
• Symphonie Fantastique (Berlioz)
• Symphony No.5 (Mahler)
• Capriccio Espagnol (Rimsky-Korsakov)
• Ein Heldenleben (Strauss)
• Symphony in 3 Movements (Stravinsky)
• Romeo and Juliet (Tchaikovsky)
• La Forza del Destino Overture (Verdi)