Paret Betty - First harp book

This book is NOT a "method".
It is a book of carefully graded material witch ANY teacher may use in giving
a pedagogically sound and fundamentally thorough approach to playing the harp.

Pour harpe celtique ou grande harpe (simple ou double mouvement)

ONE FINGER EXERCISES

Harp song
Big brown bear
Autumn leaves
Elephant
Copy-cat
Waltz
Bells
Alphabet song (french tune, attributed to N. Desède)
Swinging

TWO FINGER EXERCISES

Jumping
Wooden-shoe dance (breton folk-song)
Cuckoo (german folk-song)
Rocking
Russian tune
Star dance (pawnee indian tune)

THREE FINGER EXERCISES

Scale snippets (french folk-song)
Sur le pont d'Avignon (french folk-song)
Long, long, ago (T.H. Bayly)
Pussy cat (nursery rhyme)
Swedish folk song
Swedish folk dance
The jolly peasant (bohemian folk-dance)
Rondo

FOUR FINGER EXERCISES

Rain song (bohemian folk-song)
Lavender's blue (english folk-song)
Scale game
The keys of heaven (english folk-song)
En roulant (french-canadian singing-game)
Lota (swedih folk-tune)
Barbara Allen (english ballad)

INTERVAL EXERCISES

Night song (slavonic folk-song)
Shepherd's cradle song (swedish folk-tune)
The bluebells of Scotland (scottish folk-song)
A riddle (german folk-song)
The wonderful inn (german folk-song)
Le bon petit roi d'Yvetot (french folk-song)
The keel row (scottish folk-song)
The judge's dance (swedish)

THREE FINGER CHORD EXERCISES

Song of the evening bell
Hymn of Thanksgiving (netherlands tune)
Jardin d'amour (old french waltz)
O'Carolan's air
Andante of the Surprise symphony (J. Haydn)
Waltz (F. Schubert, op. 77 N° 2)
The foggy dew (irish folk-tune)
Leezie Lindsay (scottish folk-song)

FOUR FINGER CHORD EXERCISES

Drink to me only (english tune)
All through the night (welsh folk-song)
German dance (F. Schubert op. 33 N° 7)
Flowers in the valley (english folk-song)
Wi' a hundred pipers (scottish air)

Arrangeur :

Formation : Méthode de harpe - Methods and Studies for harp