Download or read book Guide to the Contemporary Harp written by Mathilde Aubat-Andrieu and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harps and harp music have enjoyed a renaissance over the past century and today can be heard in a broad array of musical contexts. Guide to the Contemporary Harp is a comprehensive resource that examines the vibrant present-day landscape of the harp. The authors explore the instrument from all angles, beginning with organology; moving through composition, notation, and playing techniques; and concluding with the contemporary repertoire for the harp. The rapid diversification in these areas of harp performance is the result of both technological innovations in harp making, which have produced the electric harp and MIDI harp, and innovative composers and players. These new instruments and techniques have broadened the concept of what is possible and what constitutes harp music for today. Guide to the Contemporary Harp is an essential guide for any harpist looking to push the instrument and its music to new heights.
Download or read book On Playing the Harp written by Yolanda Kondonassis and published by Carl Fischer, L.L.C.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Etude moderne de la harpe written by Carlos Salzedo and published by G Schirmer, Incorporated. This book was released on 1948 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of resourceful kids start solution-seekers.com, a website where cybervisitors can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the Old Testament. What they find is a series of S words that reveal a spectacular story! With creative characters, humorous dialogue and great music, The S Files is a children's Christmas musical your kids will love performing.
Download or read book First Harp Book written by B. Paret and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1987-03 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harp
Download or read book The Harp written by Roslyn Rensch and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written by an art historian who is also a performing harpist, this book provides, in a single source, information on the development of the harp and its technique and repertoire. The first part is devoted to a lucid exposition of the history of the instrument and is documented by over 70 illustrations of carvings, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, and musical instruments. Dr. Rensch traces the harp from its representation on monuments of the ancient East to its present-day form. There is material from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, and Greece, with a rich haul from medieval manuscripts and carvings of Western Europe. Harps portrayed by master painters, from the early Renaissance to the baroque period, and some extant harps from the late Middle Ages are also described in detail. There is an extensive discussion of the pedal harp, from the earliest instruments made by Hochbrucker, Cousineau, Naderman, and Erard to harps made in America in the twentieth century by Lyon and Healy and by Wurlitzer. Contributions of the virtuoso harpists of the nineteenth century and important harpist-teachers of the twentieth are noted. Modern use of the harp is also surveyed. The book's information on technical points, special effects, and the like will be of particular interest. A full list of recordings of solo and ensemble music and a carefully chosen list of compositions, graded for school use, are included in the appendixes. There are also a comprehensive bibliography and an index. The material of this book will be of wide interest to the professional musician, the music educator, and the composer; students of the harp will find it a vital source of information."--Jacket.
Download or read book Etude Moderne de la Harpe written by Carlos Salzedo and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Harp in Wales written by Bruce Cardwell and published by Seren Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated celebration of the harp in Wales, the iconic musical instrument central to the culture and identity of Wales, and including interviews with leading harpists and harp makers, this book is the essential guide. Foreword by Catrin Finch.
Download or read book The Egan Irish Harps written by Nancy Hurrell and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the politically charged era following the 1801 Act of Union, when Ireland's harp symbol was ubiquitous in political imagery, the playable instrument, the Gaelic harp, had largely disappeared. John Egan, a self-taught inventor, conceived a new national instrument, the "Portable Irish Harp," with innovative mechanisms to expand the harp's chromatic capabilities. The template for the modern Irish harp, Egan's design was imitated a century later by several principal harp makers. Antique Egan harps, prized as rare cultural artefacts and art objects, survive in museums and private collections worldwide, and the book's illustrations and a "Catalogue of Egan Harps" are an invaluable resource. This book on Ireland's renowned harp maker, John Egan, and the Egan family firm, reveals the significance of Egan harps in shaping Irish harp history.
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 You Can Teach Yourself Lever Harp written by Laurie Riley and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated, step-by-step method for playing the harp. This book can be used alone or with a teacher. the easy-to-follow method produces results for musicians of all levels, and even if you have no prior experience, and varying levels of difficulty are presented in arrangements of familiar musical pieces. All basic techniques and tunes are clearly and thoroughly explained. Specific topics include: how to use this book, how to sit with your harp, how to tune your harp, how to use your hands, plucking the strings, finger placement, basic structural concepts of music and 14 tunes.
Download or read book Suzuki Harp School Volume 2 written by Dr. Shinichi Suzuki and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1995-11-20 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Titles: * Rustic Dance (F.J. Haydn) * Siciliana (M.K. Waddington) * Allegro (F.J. Haydn) * Seguidilla (C. Salzedo) * Minuet No. 1, Minuet No. 3, BWV Anh. II 114/Anh. II 183 (J.S. Bach) * The Happy Farmer from Album for the Young, Op. 68, No. 10 (R. Schumann) * Glissando Waltz (W.A. Mozart) * Minuet No. 2, BWV Anh. 116 (J.S. Bach) * Petite Etude (V.V. Rogers) * A Short Story (H. Lichner) * Sonatina from Zwei Leichte Sonaten No. 1, Kinsky-Halm Anh. 5 (L. van Beethoven)
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 First 50 Songs You Should Play on Harp written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Harp). This one-of-a-kind collection of accessible solos for both pedal and lever harps includes 50 songs: Amazing Grace * Bring Him Home * Canon in D * Danny Boy * Fur Elise, WoO 59 * Hallelujah * Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) * My Heart Will Go on (Love Theme from 'Titanic') * Over the Rainbow * Sweet Child O' Mine * Unchained Melody * What a Wonderful World * You Raise Me Up * and more.
Download or read book A String in the Harp written by Nancy Bond and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1976 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates what happens to three American children, unwillingly transplanted to wales for one year, when one of them finds an ancient harp-uning key that takes him back to the time of the great sixth-century bard Taliesin.
Download or read book The History of the Erard Piano and Harp in Letters and Documents 1785 1959 written by Robert Adelson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 2489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sébastien Erard and the firm that carried his name are seminal in the history of musical instruments. Erard's inventions - especially the double escapement for the piano and the double-action for the harp - have had an enormous impact on instruments and musical life and are still at the foundation of piano and harp building today. The recently discovered archives of the Erard piano and harp building firm are perhaps the largest and most complete record of musical instrument making anywhere, containing never-before-published correspondence from musicians including Mendelssohn, Liszt and Fauré. These volumes present the archive's records and documents in two parts, the first relating to inventions, business, composers and performers and the second to the Erard family correspondence. In both the original French and with English translations, the documents offer fascinating insights into the musical landscape of Europe from the start of Erard's career in 1785 to the closure of the firm in 1959.
Download or read book The Makers of the Sacred Harp written by David Warren Steel and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative reference work investigates the roots of the Sacred Harp, the central collection of the deeply influential and long-lived southern tradition of shape-note singing. David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan concentrate on the regional culture that produced the Sacred Harp in the nineteenth century and delve deeply into history of its authors and composers. They trace the sources of every tune and text in the Sacred Harp, from the work of B. F. White, E. J. King, and their west Georgia contemporaries who helped compile the original collection in 1844 to the contributions by various composers to the 1936 to 1991 editions. Drawing on census reports, local histories, family Bibles and other records, rich oral interviews with descendants, and Sacred Harp Publishing Company records, this volume reveals new details and insights about the history of this enduring American musical tradition. David Waren Stel is an associate professor of music and southern culture at the University of Mississippi. Richard H. Hulan is an independent scholar of American folk hymnody.
Download or read book The Jews Harp in Britain and Ireland written by Michael Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The jews-harp is a distinctive musical instrument of international importance, yet it remains one of those musical instruments, like the ocarina, kazoo or even the art of whistling, that travels beneath the established musical radar. The story of the jews-harp is also part of our musical culture, though it has attracted relatively little academic study. Britain and Ireland played a significant role in the instrument?s manufacture and world distribution, particularly during the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. Drawing upon previously unknown written sources and piecing together thousands of fragments of information spanning hundreds of years, Michael Wright tells the story of the jews-harp?s long history in the Britain and Ireland. Beginning with an introductory chapter describing the instrument, Part One looks at the various theories of its ancient origin, how it came to be in Europe, terminology, and its English name. Part Two explores its commercial exploitation and the importance of the export market in the development of manufacturing. Part Three looks the instrument?s appearance and use in art, literature and the media, finally considering the many players who have used the instrument throughout its long history.
