Harp studies
Subtitle: perspectives on the Irish harp
By: Sandra Joyce & Helen Lawlor, editors
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781846825880
Subjects: History and criticism; Celtic harp; Musical instruments; Celtic harp music
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The harp in the time of Giraldus / Paul Dooley; title: Edward Bunting as a collector of Irish music and song / Colette Moloney; title: The Bengal Subscription : patriotism, patronage and the perpetuation of the Irish harp tradition in the early nineteenth century / Mary Louise O'Donnell; title: The lyre of Apollo : Thomas Moore and the Irish harp / Harry White; title: Tempering the stereotypes of Irishness abroad : the Irish harp as golden lever of temperance and respectability / Emily Cullen; title: The Irish harp in political history / Ruan O'Donnell; title: "The realization of a long-cherished project" : Donal O'Sullivan's Carolan / Sandra Joyce; title: The harp in the early traditional group / Adrian Scahill; title: Interpretations of Irishness and spirituality : the music of Mary O'Hara / Helen Lawlor; title: Three iconic Gaelic harp pieces / Ann Heymann; title: The chromatic development of the lever harp : mechanism, resulting technique and repertoire / Anne-Marie O'Farrell; title: The magic harp : a composer's perspective / Eibhlís Farrell; title: Aistear : the emergence of the twenty-first-century Irish harp in arts-practice research / Michelle Mulcahy; title: 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.