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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:
Monday April 2nd, 3:00 pm
End:
Monday April 2nd, 4:00 pm
Cost:
£11 (£9)
Event Code:
C8
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Dimitri Boekhoorn & Susan Enochsson

Celtic, Early and Hybrid Harps – Dimitri Boekhoorn

Dimitri plays up to seven different modern and early harps such as hybrid Celtic baroque harp, modernised romanesque harp, bray harp, Galician medieval harp with horse hair and medieval wire strung clairseach. Plucking with the nails in the style of medieval Gaelic harpers, he plays early music from the Celtic nations, from other traditions, including Flemish, as well as his own compositions, showing influences from South America and the African Kora

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Harpans kraft - Susan Enochsson

The harp has a presence in Scandinavian history, folklore, sagas and in modern day. In fact, the qualities of the harp are often the same as used to describe Scandinavia: magical, spell-binding, evocative. This afternoon, Susan Enochsson will provide you with a glimpse into this world.

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