Swan Serenade

Swan Serenade is from the collection entitled For the Birds by Anne Crosby Gaudet. You can learn this beautiful piece from her video below. Also, check out her video description for the entire collection, including sheet music. And enjoy my version of Swan Serenade on lyres!

16-string solid body lyre.

19-string acoustic lyre, so you can hear the difference in sound.

Double strung on 2 19-string acoustic lyres.

Anne’s video:

Evening Reflections

Evening Reflections is from Lyre Foundations by Catherine Guilbeau. To purchase the book or audiobook version, check out the link below. Here I play the piece in A minor, instead of B minor as it was written. This is only because I didn’t feel like retuning my 16-string solid body lyre!

Lynda Lyre with nylon strings.

And the double strung arrangement played on 2 19-string acoustic lyres. This is played as written, with the left hand moved up an octave.

Here is the same piece, believe it or not, with a different time signature. It was written in 3/4, like a waltz, as you can hear. Now I play it in 4/4, more like a march. It’s amazing the difference this makes! Played on 19-string acoustic lyre.

The course information is in the video description of the following link: