{"id":68,"date":"2011-05-05T01:15:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T08:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paxharpmusic.com\/product\/barcarolle\/"},"modified":"2022-06-01T13:18:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T20:18:25","slug":"barcarolle","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/paxharpmusic.com\/product\/barcarolle\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcarolle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <em>Barcarolle<\/em> evokes the feeling of being on a small boat with a gondolier on the canals of Venice.\u00a0 It is considered the most famous barcarolle ever written, and described in the Grove Book of Operas as &#8220;one of the world&#8217;s most popular melodies.&#8221; In<em>Tales of Hoffman (1881) <\/em>the melody is sung by two women&#8217;s voices and the words tell of the beauty of the night and of love.\u00a0 In this arrangement Harp 1 should be played on a pedal harp.\u00a0 Harp 2 could be played on a lever harp with some inventive lever changes or on a pedal harp with occasional pedal changes.\u00a0 In this arrangement Harp 2 begins by playing a trill (F-sharp and G) for eight measures, while Harp 1 plays small parts of the melody. In the end, Harp 1 plays a tremolo, while Harp 2 plays chords.\u00a0 \u00a0Performance time for <em>Barcarolle<\/em> is about four minutes. This melody is also arranged in Four Harps Together where it is available with the title, <em>O Lovely Night<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The arrangement comes with separate copies for First Harp and Second Harp and an Ensemble Copy showing the two parts together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Barcarolle<\/em> comes from <em>Tales of Hoffman<\/em> by Jacques Offenbach.\u00a0 It has been arranged by Shari Pack \u00a0for one pedal harp and one lever harp together or two pedal harps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1153,"template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[17,18],"product_tag":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paxharpmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paxharpmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paxharpmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxharpmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paxharpmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxharpmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxharpmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}