The Nightingale is an original lullaby by Deborah. This book includes 3 solo harp versions, as well as 4 versions for harp and voice in the keys of G and C. Each version is 4-7 pages. For advanced beginner to intermediate players. 44 pages.
You can hear this lullaby on Harpestry or Altered Ego.
Deborah Henson-Conant is also known as the "wild woman of the harp." She's changing the way the world sees this ancient instrument. Deborah describes her music as "cross-genre": jazz-pop-comedy-folk-blues-flamenco-Celtic. She is as much of an entertainer as a musician. She performs in symphony halls with major orchestras and plays intimate shows in jazz clubs and theaters internationally. She sings, plays electric harp, "tells tall tales with the ease of a stand-up comic," (Plain Dealer, Cleveland).
Deborah has toured with the Boston Pops, opened for Ray Charles at Tanglewood, performed her one-woman show from Budapest to Boston, starred in the PBS special "Celtic Harpestry," and has been featured on NBC, CBS, CNN, NPR, and hosted television shows for BET and BBC Affiliates. Charlies Rose, Lou Rawls, Joan Rivers, Studs Terkel, Scott Simon, Billy Taylor and Susan Stamberg have interviewed her.
The easiest arrangement in this book was one of the first full pieces presented to me as a "homework" assignment by my first harp teacher, and I remember enjoying it immensely. I've never seen the more difficult arrangments, but the melody of the song is quite pretty, so I would imagine they're great, as Deborah Henson-Conant's originals always are.