This song by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox was made famous by Roberta Flack. Paul Baker's arrangement for pedal harp includes lush rolled chords, glisses, and playing close to the soundboard. For intermediate harpists.
4 pages. For PEDAL harp only.
This music can be played on a pedal harp with 40 or more strings, including 3/4-size pedal harps.
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Lyrics (not included in the music):
I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a style.
And so I came to see him to listen for a while.
And there he was this young boy, a stranger to my eyes.
Strumming my pain with his fingers,
Singing my life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song,
Killing me softly with his song,
Telling my whole life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song ...
Paul Baker received a Bachelor of Music degree from Seattle Pacific University and a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance and Accompanying from the University of Southern California. A popular L.A. musician, he continues a busy schedule of solo performance, recording, conducting and arranging. Twice a prize winner in the International Pop and Jazz competitions, Paul performs and presents workshops at music conferences throughout the U.S.A. In 1995 he was chosen Los Angeles' "Music Director of the Year" for his work with the Los Angeles premiere of Stephen Sondheim's "Assassins." Paul has published numerous arrangements for solo harp and his arrangements of Falla's "Seven Popular Spanish Songs" and "A Gershwin Sampler" has recently published by Lyon and Healy Publications.