Featured Harp Music

Welcome to our featured harp music section!  Every quarter (March, June, September, and December) we will feature a work by one of our talented Pacific Northwest harp composers and arrangers. You are welcome to download and print a copy of this music for your personal private use. (If you wish to perform the music publicly for profit, print or publish any arrangement, or record or broadcast it, you must first contact the copyright holder for the appropriate permissions.)

Please Note: Beginning September 2023, Reigning Harps is using MP3 files to enable audio playback of Featured Harp Music scores. To hear playback of the tune, simply click the MP3 Audio link. To see or print out the score, use the PDF link.

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Autumn’s Featured Harp Music:

For this autumn’s featured harp music we have two tunes from the beautiful land of Finland! One, the Kalevala Melody, is the tune used to accompany the Kalevala, an ancient Finnish and Karelian epic which describes the creation of the world, and which is often played on kantele, a traditional Finnish plucked zither with a harp-like sound. The other tune, the Finlandia Hymn, was composed in 1899 by Jean Sibelius as part of his Tone Poem Opus 26, and celebrates awakening Finnish independence and culture. These two tunes were arranged in lead sheet form by M. Diane Moss as Group Tunes for the 2024 PSFHS Autumn Folk Harp Retreat.

(NOTE: These two tunes are meant to be included in your PSFHS Harpers’ Song Book, so please print them out and add them to your book in alphabetical order.)

Now, on to the music!

Kalevala Melody: PDF

Kalevala Melody: MP3 Audio

Finlandia Hymn: PDF

Finlandia Hymn: MP3 Audio

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Music Archive: click here to see previous Featured Harp Music scores

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