Title	Essai sur la vraie manière de jouer de la Harpe avec une méthode de l'accorder. Œuvre premier
Author	Meyer, Jacques Philippe
Place	Paris
Publisher	l'Auteur
Year	1763
Physical Description	8, VII, 23 p.

Language	French
Type of Harp	Simple Action Pedal Harp
Target Audience	Adults
Speed of Progression	Fast
Structure of Method	Chapters on the fundamental techniques of the harp
Type of Illustrations	Others
Style of Music	Classical
Musical Structure	Exerices; Pieces
Elements of harmonical Theory	No

Introduction	1
Position of the Harp
Tuning
Elements of Musical Theory
Beginning with 1 finger
Beginning with 2 fingers
Beginning with 3 fingers
Beginning with 4 fingers	2
Intervals
Chords, 3 fingers
Chords, 4 fingers	4
Pedals / Levers
Glissando
Harmonics
Scales	3
Slides
Arpeggios
Trills, Tremolos, Bisbigliandi, Ornaments	5
Muffled Sounds

The harp in this period is an instrument of accompaniment of songs and airs; the method gives technical means to learn to play these kind of pieces

Introduction of 8 pages with the history of the harp, the reasons of the method, the description of the instrument, how to tune it. Then technical explanations on 7 boards of musical exercises.
7 musical boards containing every technical formulae necessary for the execution with the fingering : scales, battery, left hand chords with ways of accompaniment such as: bass of Alberti; ornaments
Several small pieces using each a technical difficulty: aria with variations, allegro, adagio, gavotte, gigue, fantasy
To conclude, a small Sonata in 2 mouvements

Interesting fingerings for the ornaments: many of slides of the thumb
Many lines coming down are playing without the thumb
The pieces have deliberately the objective of the learning of the technique: they approach a difficulty after the other one.