Mary's Wedding Harp Ensemble arr. Joanne Meis

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Mary's Wedding by Joanne Meis, played by a trio at Melody's Tradtional Music. (no rehearsal).
Joanne has made a story of this piece. Entitled Mary instead of the traditional Mairi it was arranged for Mary Keeble, one of her harp ensemble members for her wedding. You can hear many compositional techniques such as inversion, augmentation of music motifs. It starts out in a stately walking manner. All harp parts have interweaving melodies and utilize both the upper and lower registers of the harp. This piece ends triumphantly with strong bass chords played by Harp 3 while Harp 1 and 2 have ascending and descending scales creating a ringing bell effect like wedding bells. We ran through the piece and put it up on You Tube. Lower Intermediate to intermediate - all harps. Really a neat arrangement!
This and many more harp arrangements are published by Afghan Press, www.afghanpress.com and available at many harp stores worldwide.
Once again - we are a warehouse of harps and harp music, so pardon our lovely attire and especially the Green Bay Packer clogs worn by owner Mary Radspinner. We'll have to dress a little nicer for our Carnegie Hall performance!