Harps And Harpists
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Harps and Harpists
Author: Roslyn Rensch
language: en
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press
Release Date: 1989
"This is the long-awaited, expanded edition of a classic text on the harp, written by a musician who is also an art historian, and beautifully illustrated with more than 160 photographs and drawings. The book surveys the progress of the harp from antiquity to the present day - from the simple bow-like early harp to the gleaming modern pedal harp, most recently equipped with the refinements of electronic sound."--BOOK JACKET.
Harps and Harpists
Author: Roslyn Rensch
language: en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date: 2017-02-27
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.
The Egan Irish Harps
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.