A great guide for beginners of the wire strung harp. With the use of genuine repertoire of Ireland and Scotland, students are guided in a step by step written format with an accompanying CD. It covers reading music, parts of the harp, tuning, and hand position. The lessons are divided into 20 sections, each building on and reinforcing the previous one. Excellent illustrations! 138 pgs.

Table of Contents:
Alan is Dear to Me, Alone in a Wintery Town, Begone From My Window, Beloved Maiden, Dark Baick of the Winding Streams, Early Morning on Lammas Day, Elegy on Robert McKay the Bard, Farewell Blessings, The Ferryboat, Girl that Tends the Goats, Hogmanay Song, I Cannot Endure Your Absence, My Bedside, Soldier's Ode to his Musket, Song of Flattery and Truth, Young Heir of Dyngallon, The Bonnie Cuckoo, The Butterfly, Edge of the White Rock, Health from the Cup, If I Had a Court and Castle, Jack the Jolly Ploughboy, Lament for Myles MacParlan, Long is the Day Without the Sons of Usnach, Lovely Nun to a Friar Came, Nora Likes Cake, Ossianic Air, Whish the Cat!, The Winnowing Sheet, The Yellow Blanket, Young James Plunket, The Black Cat, Gentle Rainfall, It's A Wonder to See