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Music Theory and Arranging Techniques for Folk Harps

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Music Theory and Arranging Techniques for Folk Harps by Sylvia Woods.

If you ever had to take a class in music theory in school maybe you are more fortunate than I in that and you can remember and apply some of what you learned. For the rest of you I highly recommend buying this book of Sylvia's titled; Music Theory and Arranging Techniques for Folk Harps. Written before the "..... for Dummies" series became so popular, this book takes you easily and with lots of examples and illustrations from major chords to transposing... and everywhere in between! In the introduction Sylvia urges the reader to " Have fun with this book. Just go at your own pace, and take it step by step." Presenting concepts and theory step-by-step is another thing Sylvia does best!!!

Sylvia Woods' book on Music Theory and Arranging Techniques for Folk Harps is an outstanding source for the harpist for understanding musical theory and applying that theory to practice. It is written in a deceptively simple style, but her technique works. The reader learns a lot in a few pages. An invaluable guide. Highly recommended.

Sylvia Woods is the patron saint of folk harpists. With this book, she has not only given us more folk harp music, she's given us more music playable on a folk harp. By teaching us how to arrange, she's made much more music accessible to us. She's teaching us how to fish.

Very helpful and informative on a step by step process. I didn't know anything about music before. This gave me what I needed.

This is a great book that I use as a follow-up/ companion to Teach Yourself to Play the Folk Harp by Sylvia Woods. SO useful and informative, covering a wide breadth of music theory as is relavant to the harp.