Bodhrán
Subtitle: Experimentation, Innovation, and the Traditional Irish Frame Drum
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781621905554
Subjects: Music, history and criticism
Description: "Colin F. Harte traces the bodhra n from its early origins in Irish traditional music to its present-day resurgence in Irish American folk music. Harte includes chapters on the instrument's historical and organological development, experimentation and innovation in playing styles over time, and a study of the instrument's performative practices. The central academic focus of the text is the recent, rapid developments in bodhra n design, performance practices, and teaching the bodhra n to a new generation of musicians"--