Title: Harp studies : perspectives on the Irish harp /
Authors: Joyce, Sandra,; Lawlor, Helen,
Year: 2016
Subjects: Celtic harp Ireland History and criticism.; Celtic harp music Ireland History and criticism.
Contents: The harp in the time of Giraldus / Paul Dooley -- Edward Bunting as a collector of Irish music and song / Colette Moloney -- The Bengal Subscription : patriotism, patronage and the perpetuation of the Irish harp tradition in the early nineteenth century / Mary Louise O'Donnell -- The lyre of Apollo : Thomas Moore and the Irish harp / Harry White -- Tempering the stereotypes of Irishness abroad : the Irish harp as golden lever of temperance and respectability / Emily Cullen -- The Irish harp in political history / Ruan O'Donnell -- "The realization of a long-cherished project" : Donal O'Sullivan's Carolan / Sandra Joyce -- The harp in the early traditional group / Adrian Scahill -- Interpretations of Irishness and spirituality : the music of Mary O'Hara / Helen Lawlor -- Three iconic Gaelic harp pieces / Ann Heymann -- The chromatic development of the lever harp : mechanism, resulting technique and repertoire / Anne-Marie O'Farrell -- The magic harp : a composer's perspective / Eibhlís Farrell -- Aistear : the emergence of the twenty-first-century Irish harp in arts-practice research / Michelle Mulcahy -- The harp of Aaron : the Irish harp as shopping trolley : a polyptych in four movements / Aaron Lawless, Niamh NicGhabhann, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin and Helen Phelan.