Contents of Soundings

Volume 1, No. 1

  • Catherine Read, "Christof-Andreas Lindenberg, A Biography - Part I"

  • Christof-Andreas Lindenberg, "The Lyre: A Tutor for a New Instrument - Part I"

  • Sheila Johns and Channa Seidenberg, "Towards a World Lyre Community: The Birth of an Idea Inspired by Lyre 2006"

  • Music supplement: Michaelmas and Christmas music, Bach and more

Volume 2, No. 1

  • Catherine Read, "Christof-Andreas Lindenberg, A Biography - Part II"

  • Christof-Andreas Lindenberg, The Lyre: A Tutor for a New Instrument - Part II"

  • Robert Grace, "Therapeutic Lemniscates"

  • Music supplement: Christof-Andreas Lindenberg, "At the Threshold and Beyond"
    (12 compositions, with suggestions and explanations.)

Volume 2, No. 2

  • Hajime Kira, "Where Do the Sound and the Tone of the Lyre Come From?"

  • Christof-Andreas Lindenberg, "The Lyre: A Tutor for a New Instrument - Part 3"

  • Ingeborg Derscheid (trans. Channa A. Seidenberg), "Biography of Heinrich-Michael Derscheid"

  • Christof-Andreas Lindenberg, "At the Threshold and Beyond"

  • Music Supplement: At the Threshold and Beyond II – Christof-Andreas Lindenberg (14 compositions)

Volume 3, No. 1

  • Laura Langford Schnur, "Truth, Tone and Tuning"

  • Gerhard Beilharz(trans. Mado Spiegler), "Describing the Indescribable: Reflections on Julius Knierim's Elaboration and Development of Lyre-playing Technique"

  • Christof-Andreas Lindenberg, "The Lyre: A Tutor for a New Instrument - Part 4"

  • Music Supplement: 7 compositions (Lindenberg, Josquin, Maasz, Jackson, Seidenberg)

Volume 3, No. 2

  • Sheila Phelps Johns, "The Erosion of Listening: A Contemporary Crisis of Childhood"

  • Paul Matthews, "This Silver Lyre" (a poem from Slippery Characters)"

  • David Adams, "An Introduction to the Musical Work of Manfred Bleffert"

  • Soundings Interview: "A Lyre Builder Shares His Story: Murray Wright, Australian Lyre Builder"

  • Christof-Andreas Lindenberg, "The Lyre: A Tutor for a New Instrument - Part 4 (revised)"

  • Music Supplement: 7 compositions (Starke, Brewer, Logan, Bach, Lindenberg, Anonymous)

Volume 4, No. 1

  • Christina Porkert, "Maria Schuppel - A Pioneer of Music Therapy"

  • Christof-Andreas Lindenberg, "Music in the Prebirth to Three-Year-Old Child"

  • Soundings Interview: "A Lyre Builder Shares His Story: John Bryan, English Lyre Builder"

  • Christof-Andreas Lindenberg, "The Lyre: A Tutor for a New Instrument - Part 4 (revised)"

  • Music Supplement: 5 compositions (Schüppel, Fauré, Lindenberg, Seidenberg)

Volume 5

  • Hajime Kira, “Potential of the Unique Resonance of Lyre Tones”

  • Catherine Read, “Inner Balance and the Lyre”

  • Christof-Andreas Lindenberg, “The Interval and Movement”

  • Music Supplement: 5 compositions (Seidenberg, Anderberg, Lindenberg, Handel/Brewer)

Volume 6

  • Christof-Andreas Lindenberg, “Address Given at Lyre 2000”

  • Alan Thewless, “A Lyre builder Shares His Story”

  • Bevis Stephens, “New Impulses for the Future Direction of Music Arising out of Working with the Schlesinger Scales”

  • Music Supplement: 4 compositions (Giersch, Tanser, Martinu, Handel)

Volume 7

  • Christof-Andreas Lindenberg, “Understanding the Shape of the Lyre”

  • Gundolf Kühn, “My Career Path in Becoming a Lyre Builder”

  • Vicky Deng, “Determination Meets Expertise: The Lyre in China”

  • John Billing, “China Lyre Workshops: Step One”

  • Music Supplement: 6 compositions (J.S. Bach, Knierim, Reubke, Friebe, Tanser, Khachaturian)

Volume 8

  • A History of the Lyre, by Gerhard Beilharz

  • The Task and Purpose of the New Instruments, by Veronika Roemer

  • My Journey as a Lyre Builder, by Martin Nies

  • About Intuitive Pedagogy, by Thomas Pedroli

  • Sound Mythology, by Martin Tobiassen

Index of Titles in Music Supplement 8:

  • Stillness – Thomas Pedroli

  • Boat Song – Colin Tanser

  • Ach Elslein – Alois Künstler

  • A Round for Christmas – Channa Seidenberg

  • Bright is the Sunshine – Maria Schüppel

  • Promenade – Alexander Gretchaninoff

  • Fragment B/A – Colin Tanser

  • Praludium – Jan Nilsson

  • Skarba – Martin Tobiassen

  • Equal #1 – Ludwig van Beethoven

Volume 9 (Special Commemorative Edition Dedicated to Julius Knierim)

  • Describing the Indescribable - Reflections of Julius Knierim’s Lyre-playing Technique, by Gerhard Beilharz

  • From “Rauschen” to “Strömendes Gestalten”, by Gerhard Beilharz

  • History of the Camphill Village Ensemble, by Channa Andriesse Seidenberg

  • Music, Mobility, and the Mood of the Fifth, by Sheila Phelps Johns

  • The Coming to Birth of the Lyre, Adapted by Sheila P. Johns from Mariana Bruehl’s Apollo’s Lyre

  • Julius Knierim, the Impulse Carrier, by Christof-Andreas Lindenberg

  • Sun and Moon, Heart and Soul — Personal Reflections of Julius Knierim, by Jeb Pronto

  • Recollections of Julius Knierim, by Kerry Virginia Lee

Index of Titles in Music Supplement 9 (All by Julius Knierim):

  • A Lovely Rainbow

  • We Are Hungry

  • Wie leicht wird erde sein

  • Tribute to J.S. Bach

  • 12-Tone Exercise

  • Playing with 12 Tones

  • Unveil to Us

  • Kleiner Kanon für zwei Leiern

  • Kanon zu Ostinato

  • Invention

  • Abendmusik

  • Zwischenspiel aus “Der treue Johannes”

  • Kanon

  • Klingen und Nachklingen