num_pages: 463
description: MasterSinger Merelan and Harper Petiron were a brilliant and devoted couple. Merelan was the most outstanding soprano ever heard on Pern, and was often the only one who could master Petiron's technically accomplished compositions. When, after a long and difficult birth, Robinton was born to them, it should have been the culmination of a unique partnership.But Petiron, almost from the first day, had no time for his son, refusing to see the incredible talent the boy possessed, ignoring his achievements and maintaining a strict and disapproving vigilance over him at all times.Carefully, secretly, the Harper Hall took over, training the greatest talent Pern had ever seen - a talent that was more than just musical, for Robinton was able to talk to the dragons of Pern.As constant sadness beset his personal life, so a startling career sent him like a meteor through the Holds and Weyrs of Pern until, as MasterHarper, he became part of the great plan to rescue Lessa from the brutal rule of Holder Fax - Lessa, who was to be the saviour of the dragons of Pern.
language: English
title: The Masterharper of Pern
titlecomplete: The Masterharper of Pern (Pern, #14)
characters: Gennell, F'lar, Masterharper Robinton, Petiron, F'nor, Sebell, F'lor, Lessa, Merelan, Fax
genres: High Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Music, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Dragons, Adult, Adventure, Fiction
ratings_count: 24449
series: Pern (Chronological Order), Pern 
publisher: Corgi