SARAH DEERE-JONES (Harpist) LRAM LGSM ARAM - Compositions

(Sarah's biography can be seen here - http://www.sarahdeere-jones.co.uk/harpist.htm )

email sarah (at) trehawsa.com

For my Harp solos - please scroll down.

Carmina Iocunda - 'Songs for the Seasons'

A collection of 8 Medieval poems set as choral songs with harp accompaniment

in a format similar to Britten's famous 'Ceremony of carols'.

Click the image below for a YouTube demonstration

 

Click below for the CD of Carmina plus Sarah's compositions

 

 

 

Sarah says of 'Carmina Iocundum' -

"This work is really a combination of everything I love - Medieval literature, the English countryside,

the changing seasons, choral music and of course, the sound of the harp."

There are two songs for each of the four seasons of the year, the texts are mostly anonymous but one poem is by Chaucer and another is a Shakespeare sonnet.

The whole work takes around 22 minutes to perform.

(Sarah is happy to provide the accompaniment herself or can recommend another harpist in your area)

 

 

HARP COMPOSITIONS

 

Sarah has published several books of pieces for beginner and intermediate harpists including some syllabus exam pieces, all of these books are now published and sold by Creighton's collection and can be found here - http://www.creighton-griffiths.co.uk/acatalog/deerejones_sm.html

As well as these Sarah has pubished solo pieces for advanced lever-harpists, here are some examples below-

Fantasie

for the lever harp

Video of

Fantasie for the Celtic harps

played by Sarah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpIWcn9yiXg

Loch Coruisk Rhapsody

for Pedal or Lever harp

Set as Trinity College

Grade 6

Video of

Loch Coruisk Rhapsody

played by Sarah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rLs5X-50SU

On Selworthy Beacon

For Lever harp

Video of

On Selworthy Beacon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5fyuW9kOpE&t=79s

Cascaron

A traditional Ecuadorian tune

arranged for Celtic harp

Video of

Cascaron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvmsHHdWsYk

By a Woodland Stream

for Lever harp

Video of

By a Woodland Stream

played by Sarah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BCPVjQqm9A

Meltwater

 

Video of

'Meltwater'

played by Sarah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3iofyydsVM&t=52s

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