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Roharps Publications - Books

A growing collection of printed music for advanced beginner and intermediate level harp. RoJean's solo harp books include original compositions and arrangements of sacred and secular tunes. Each tune within the books is also available as an individual download through her page on the ScoreExchange website. There, you can view the entire score, hear it played back (even vary the playback speed), and transpose it to a different key, if you wish.  Although arranged for lever harp, this music is equally playable on pedal harp or piano.

To review the first lines of each tune, click on the tune title.

When you find music you want to purchase, you have three options:

  • Online, from this page (simply click on the Add to Cart buttons).  Although PayPal payments are accepted, having or registering for a PayPal account is not required to make a purchase.  At checkout, choose Don't have a PayPal Account? in order to pay with any major credit card or check card.
  • Mail Order: click here for a printable order form. You can mail this, along with your check/money order/credit card information.  Orders are normally processed within 24-48 hours of our receiving them, Monday through Friday.
  • Other harp music vendors:  Many of Roharps Publications are available through Melody's Traditional Music & Harp ShoppeSylvia Woods Harp Center, Hobgoblin Music, and Kolacny Music.

praise book
Hymn favorites, each arranged for advanced beginners and intermediate solo harp; Basic version is playable on a 26-string harp with the C one octave below Middle C.  Intermediate version requires an additional lower octave.

$15.00
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PRAISE, Vol. 1 contents:

All Things Bright & Beautiful - Basic, Intermediate
Amazing Grace - Basic, Intermediate
Be Still My Soul (Finlandia) - Basic, Intermediate
Blessed Assurance - Basic, Intermediate
Count Your Blessings - Basic, Intermediate
It Is Well with My Soul - Basic, Intermediate
Let All Things Now Living - Basic, Intermediate
Sweet Hour of Prayer - Basic, Intermediate
The Love of God - Basic, Intermediate
This Is My Father's World - Basic, Intermediate

Click on Basic or Intermediate for each tune, to open a page of sample lines for the score (pdf format)

Please note: these versions are not designed to be played as duets.  Version A is a bare-bones, spare arrangement with chord symbols, some fingering and brackets, a lever-harp-friendly departure from the hymn book (useful as a base for improvisation, or inviting a guitarist friend to play along).  Version B begins with an introduction, and includes a fully composed arrangement complete with lush chords.  You may choose to play both versions for a gig:  A followed by B (the intro serving as a bridge) offers more music to fill a longer time duration.


promises book
Worship & wedding music for intermediate level solo harp in the keys of C, D, G, and Eb.  No lever changes within the tunes.
5 original compositions, the remainder are traditional and sacred selections

$15.00
 

PROMISES contents:
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Meditation
(Loucks)
O Perfect Love
(Barnby)
To a Wild Rose
(MacDowell)
Calm as the Night
(Bohm)
Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us,
key of C(Bradbury)
Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us, key of Eb ((Bradbury)
Prayer (Loucks)
Morning Has Broken
(traditional Gaelic)
Promises
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Children of the Heavenly Father
(traditional Swedish)
Psalm 23 medley
(hymn tunes Resignation, St Columba, Brother James Air)
The Journey
(Loucks)
Celtic Medley
(Be Thou My Vision/Slane, The Water is Wide/Gift of Love)
Simple Gifts
(traditional Shaker)
Spagnoletta
(Praetorius)
Lauda
(Italian)
Fanfare
in D (Loucks)
Fanfare in C (Loucks)

Click on each tune title to view sample measures from each score (pdf format).


christmas book
Fifteen traditional arrangements & original compositions for Advent
and Christmas

$15.00
 

CHRISTMAS contents:

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Still, Still, Still (Austrian)
Christmas Bells
(Loucks)
Silent Night (Gruber)
I Saw Three Ships (English)
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
(English)
Infant Holy/O Come, Little Children
(Polish/Shultz)
Go, Tell it on the Mountain
(traditional Spiritual)
'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime
(traditional French melody)
Away in a Manger medley
(Mueller/Murray, Cradle Song/Kirkpatrick, Luther/Spillman)
A La Ru
(Hispanic folk melody)
Sing We Now of Christmas
(traditional French)
Advent Meditation
(Veni Emmanuel/Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence)
Austrian Carol Medley (Lippai/Upon the Mountain)
Snowfall (Loucks)
O Holy Night (Adam)

Click on each tune title to view sample measures from each score (pdf format).


soul dance book
Ten original contemplative solo harp compositions
Keys of C, A minor, G, E minor and D (no lever changes within the tunes)

$12.00
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SOUL DANCE contents:

Soul Dance, for the purpose of music is to make the soul dance
Celebration
a joyful Celtic-style lilt celebrating a successful medical outcome
Child of Joy
honoring a grandson
Contemplation
a meditative reflection
June Morning
tribute to a lovely early summer morn
Whippoorwill
a tune reminiscent of this songbird's trill
Music Boxtestimonial
the tune played by a favorite music box in RoJean's childhood
A Blessing for Isaac
written in honor of a grandson
Almost Home
during a difficult medical procedure, a ray of hope
Peace
the prayer offered in the final hours of a mother-in-law's life

Click on each tune title to view sample measures from each
score (pdf format)


reflections book
Ten original melodies for lower intermediate to intermediate level harp
Most in the key of C or A minor without lever changes, one has a
preset G#

$12.00
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REFLECTIONS contents:

Lullaby for Luke in honor of a grandson
Sorrow (Cm)
a tribute to the events of September 11, 2001
Sorrow (Am)
(see above)
Olivia's Song
honoring a granddaughter
Tune for Tomas
tune for a grandson
Melody for Reiko
written for our oldest granddaughter
November
an ode to the end of the autumn season
Tokyo Tango
a playful little tune written in collaboration with granddaughter Reiko
Julian's Jig
a tune to honor a grandson
Rain
a soft, dreamy piece describing a cool summer morning
Spirit
a haunting melody of things sensed, yet unseen

Click on each tune title to view sample measures from each score (pdf format)


    Coming soon: PRAISE, Vol 2; GRATITUDE (more original compositions); and WE HAVE THIS MOMENT (solo harp & vocal)