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Guide to Course Levels & Teaching Method

Course Levels

  • Beginner: You have no experience of playing the harp.
  • Post-Beginner: You took last year’s beginners’ class, have had relatively few lessons and/or require help with basic technique.
  • Elementary: You can already perform simple tunes, require further help in consolidating basic technique and wish to work slowly and carefully.
  • Intermediate: You already have good technique and can work at a moderate pace.
  • Advanced: Your technique is good and you wish to stretch yourself.
  • Mixed Ability: For all levels, except Beginner or Post-beginner.

For further advice about course levels please contact us on +44 (0) 131 445 2022

Teaching Method

  • E: teaching will be by ear with no written music given out
  • E+M: teaching will be by ear with written music given out during or at the end of the class or course
  • M: teaching will be from written music
  • M+E: written music will be given at the start of each course. Teaching methods will be sympathetic to all levels of skill in reading music.
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Start:
Sunday April 1st, 7:30 pm
End:
Sunday April 1st, 10:00 pm
Cost:
£14.50 (£12.50)
Event Code:
C7
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Ancience

Two instruments, harp and pipes, which have taken on different forms over the centuries are played by four top traditional musicians from the nations of the UK, who have teamed up with a contemporary, electronic musician to create music which is at the same time freshly minted and ancient.

Harpers Mary Macmaster (Scotland) Gwenan Gibbard (Wales) with Northumbrian piper Andy May (England) and Uillean piper Tiarnán Ó Duinchinn (Northern Ireland) play music from their own traditions and styles and then, with the addition of Joe Acheson’s computer technology, bring musical imagination and open minds together to create something new.

Artist Biographies: Andy May, Gwenan Gibbard & Tiárnan Ó Duinchinn

This work was commissioned by Distil with Sidmouth Folk Festival, Trac, William Kennedy Piping Festival and Edinburgh International Harp Festival and was made possible with funding through Beyond Borders, from the PRS Music Foundation, Creative Scotland, Arts Council Northern Ireland, Arts Council Wales and Colwinston Charitable Trust.

 

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