Brian Boru and the Strawberry Moon.
Rita Terrell (tari@usa.net)
Sun, 2 Jun 1996 11:46:30 -0600 (MDT)
The Strawberry Moon was out last night, sailing through the clouds..
Our 20 acres has a dry pond surrounded by earth and ringed by cottonwoods
that I call my ringfort.. It is quiet and secluded and is a perfect place to
go down and look at the stars and play my harp.
I am a rank beginner and the list of songs I can play is short but my very
favorite is Brian Boru's March.
(The first time I ever heard someone play the Celtic Harp it was also the
first time I heard this song and I made the poor harpist play it over and over.)
I know its a pretty basic song.. but its very basically hard to find
resources out here on the Great Plains of Colorado.. I have only one
arrangement of it.. and I don't like it very much. (Its the Sylvia Woods
Irish Dance Tunes For All Harps... although I usually like Sylvia woods
songs very much and appreciate the beginner simplicity of the books I have
by her.)
Can anybody point me out a catalog, a favorite (easy!) version in a book or
otherwise some way of trying other arrangements?
(ONE good thing.. this version has taught me how to improvise something I
like better!)
Tari@earth.usa.net Avondale, Colorado.
Celtic Harp, Irish Gaelic, Horses, Ferrets, Milkgoats, Fantasy artwork
Bronze sculpting, Spinning wool, Chickens, Herb gardening, (List subject
to expand without notice.)
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