This book situates harping activity as a vital aspect of music making in traditions around the world, highlighting its cultural significance and role in diverse musical practices.
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Music History & CriticismTable of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyrights
- Contents Page
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One: ‘Cia an saoi lé seinntear an chruit’: a bardic poem to a harper
- Chapter Two: In the shadow of Bochsa: a study of three foreign virtuoso pedal harpists in Dublin (c.1850–1900)
- Chapter Three: ‘When thy slender fingers go forth on the wire’: the visit of the Swedish harp virtuoso Adolf Sjödén to Ireland in 1879
- Chapter Four: Sustaining the harp in Ireland: Máirín and Róisín Ní Shéaghdha’s music, teaching and legacy
- Chapter Five: ‘Lantern works’: opening access to music education and harping through convent schools in Ireland
- Chapter Six: ‘Balls!’ Gender, language and aesthetic in the worlds of Irish harping
- Chapter Seven: Learning together: participatory music practices in Irish harp ensembles
- Plate Section
- Chapter Eight: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century pedal harps: a focus on the Philharmonie de Paris harp collection
- Chapter Nine: The Viggianese harp: an exploration of a musical diaspora and its parallels with the Irish tradition
- Chapter Ten: A trajectory of the Breton harp in the twentieth century
- Chapter Eleven: A harper's perspective on the revival (or reinvention?) of the Scottish harp
- Chapter Twelve: Studying the diversity of Central African harps
- Chapter Thirteen: Innovation crushing cultural memory: harps in southern Cameroon
- Chapter Fourteen: Let's make a record! Contemporary repertoires of the ngombi harp by Mitsogo artists in Gabon
- Chapter Fifteen: Social life of the kora
- Chapter Sixteen: Harps in Asia: a historical survey
- Chapter Seventeen: Dawpuewae: forming and performing the Karen collective with the tehnaku (harp)
- Index
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