Download or read book Scota s Harp written by Michele Buchanan and published by Mercury Heartlink. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celtic and Egyptian history, Scottish Stone of Destiny, Celtic harp, Archaeology, Adventure across the Mediterranean Ocean to the British Isles. Oral myth tells the history of Irish invasions, an Egyptian princess named Scota, who is the namesake for Scotland.
Download or read book Tree of Strings written by Keith Sanger and published by Routledge Library Editions: Folk Music. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first history of the harp in Scotland to be published. It sets out to trace the development of the instrument from its earliest appearance on the Pictish stones of the 8th century, to the present day. Describing the different harps played in the Highlands and the Lowlands of Scotland, the authors examine the literary and physical evidence for their use within the Royal Courts and "big houses" by professional harpers and aristocratic amateurs. They vividly follow the decline of the wire-strung clarsach from its links with the hereditary bards of the Highland chieftains to its disappearance in the 18th century, and the subsequent attempts at the revival of the small harp during the 19th and 20th centuries. The music played on the harp, and its links with the great families of Scotland are described. The authors present, in this book, material which has never before been brought to light, from unpublished documents, family papers and original manuscripts. They also make suggestions, based on their research, about the development and dissemination of the early Celtic harps and their music. This book, therefore, should be of great interest, not only to harp players but to historians, to all musicians in the fields of traditional and early music, and to any reader who recognises the importance of these beautiful instruments, and their music, throughout a thousand years of Scottish culture.
Download or read book Imagine A Country written by Val McDermid and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first step on the road to change is to imagine possibility. Imagine A Country offers visions of a new future from an astonishing array of Scottish voices, from comedians to economists, writers to musicians. Edited, curated and introduced by bestselling author Val McDermid and geographer Jo Sharp, it is a collection of ideas, dreams and ambitions, aiming to inspire change, hope and imagination. Featuring: Ali Smith, Phill Jupitus, A.L. Kennedy, Alan Cumming, Kerry Hudson, Greg Hemphill, Carol Ann Duffy, Chris Brookmyre, Alison Watt, Alasdair Gray, Leila Aboulela, Ian Rankin, Selina Hales, Sanjeev Kohli, Jackie Kay, Damian Barr, Elaine C. Smith, Abir Mukherjee, Anne Glover, Alan Bissett, Louise Welsh, Jo Clifford, Ricky Ross, Trishna Singh, Cameron McNeish, Alexander McCall Smith, Carla Jenkins, Don Paterson, and many more . . .
Download or read book The Sharp e Family Part 1 written by and published by Hank Rogers. This book was released on with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ancient Music of Ireland written by Edward Bunting and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable collection of Irish song is enriched by a 100-page preface and followed by 151 Irish airs arranged for piano, with songs' Irish names, authors, and dates of composition.
Download or read book Teach Yourself to Play the Folk Harp written by Sylvia Woods and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1987-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book teaches the student step by step how to play the harp. Each of the 12 lessons includes instructions, exercises, and folk and classical pieces using the new skills and techniques taught in the lesson. --from publisher description.
Download or read book The House of Commons 1690 1715 written by David Hayton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A further large-scale contribution to the standard 'History of Parliament' series, covering 1690 1715."
Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Heraldry or general Armory of England Scotland and Ireland comprising a registry of all armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time including the late grants by the college of arms written by John Burke and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland written by Robert Wodrow and published by . This book was released on 1721 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narratives of the Religious Self in Early Modern Scotland written by David George Mullan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a rich, yet untapped, source of Scottish autobiographical writing, this book provides a fascinating insight into the nature and extent of early-modern religious narratives. Over 80 such personal documents, including diaries and autobiographies, manuscript and published, clerical and lay, feminine and masculine, are examined and placed both within the context of seventeenth-century Scotland, and also early-modern narratives produced elsewhere. In addition to the focus on narrative, the study also revolves around the notion of conversion, which, while a concept known in many times and places, is not universal in its meaning, but must be understood within the peculiarities of a specific context and the needs of writers located in a specific tradition, here, Puritanism and evangelical Presbyterianism. These conversions and the narratives which provide a means of articulation draw deeply from the Bible, including the Psalms and the Song of Solomon. The context must also include an appreciation of the political history, especially during the religious persecutions under Charles II and James VII, and later the changing and unstable conditions experienced after the arrival of William and Mary on her father's throne. Another crucial context in shaping these narratives was the form of religious discourse manifested in sermons and other works of divinity and the work seeks to investigate relations between ministers and their listeners. Through careful analysis of these narratives, viewing them both as individual documents and as part of a wider genre, a fuller picture of seventeenth-century life can be drawn, especially in the context of the family and personal development. Thus the book may be of interest to students in a variety of areas of study, including literary, historical, and theological contexts. It provides for a greater understanding of the motivations behind such personal expressions of early-modern religious faith, whose echoes can still be heard today.
Download or read book The History Of The Sufferings Of The Church of Scotland From The Restauration To The Revolution written by Robert Wodrow and published by . This book was released on 1721 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Modern Irish and Scottish Literature written by Richard Alan Barlow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-04 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms explores the ways Irish and Scottish literatures have influenced each other from the 1760s onwards. Although an early form of Celticism disappeared with the demise of the Celtic Revivals of Ireland and Scotland, the 'Celtic world' and the 'Celtic temperament' remained key themes in central texts of Irish and Scottish literature well into the twentieth century. Richard Barlow examines the emergence, development, and transformation of Celticism within Irish and Scottish writing and identifies key connections between modern Irish and Scottish authors and texts. By reading works from figures such as James Macpherson, Walter Scott, Sydney Owenson, Augusta Gregory, W. B. Yeats, Fiona Macleod, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, and Seamus Heaney in their political and cultural contexts, Barlow provides a new account of the characteristics and phases of literary Celticism within Romanticism, Modernism, and beyond.
Download or read book Directory to gentlemen s seats villages c in Scotland afterw The county directory of Scotland Collected and arranged by J Findlay and others written by James Findlay (inspector of letter carriers GPO.) and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution written by Robert Wodrow and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Island life or The phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poets and Poetry of Scotland written by James Grant Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
