Harps and Harpists

Harps and Harpists
Author: Roslyn Rensch
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2017-02-27
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0253030293

Revising her classic 1989 book Harps and Harpists, Roslyn Rensch expands her authoritative history of this timeless instrument. This lavishly illustrated edition, with 137 black-and-white images and 24 color plates, surveys the progress of the harp from antiquity to the present day. The new edition includes two new chapters; an extensive bibliography and index; personal anecdotes of the author's studies under Alberto Salvi; and an appendix on the Roslyn Rensch Papers and Harp Collection, which are housed at the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign.

Program Notes

Program Notes
Author: Cleveland Orchestra
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1920
Genre: Concert programs
ISBN:

Journal

Journal
Author: Philadelphia Orchestra
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1050
Release: 1918
Genre: Concert programs
ISBN:

Program Notes

Program Notes
Author: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Publisher:
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1902
Genre: Concert programs
ISBN:

The volume for the 50th season, 1940/41, includes "Repertoire, 1891-1941" [62] p. and "Solists, 1891-1941" [5] p.

The NPR Classical Music Companion

The NPR Classical Music Companion
Author: Miles Hoffman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2005
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780618619450

Explains terms used in classical music, from aria, Baroque, and cantata to vibrato, wind instruments, and zarzuela.

A magic harp

A magic harp
Author: Nóra Mercz
Publisher: novum pro Verlag
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2016-10-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3990483439

Harps, instruments of ancient origin have joined humankind throughout its history: the gems among the instruments in the empires of antiquity, the accompanying instruments of the songs performed by medieval monks, wandering minstrels and gallant knights, favourites of burghers, and the queen of instruments, as many say. They served as the decorative or symbolic components of artistic representations arcing over times. We do not only get familiar with the varieties, the development and the most excellent virtuosos of harps, but we are also given a comprehensive view of their historical and philosophical background, the role they played in different eras during which, these instruments of peculiar and mysteriously attractive sound "always represented joy, comfort and beauty”.