Harps and Harpists, Revised Edition
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Revising her classic 1989 book Harps and Harpists, Roslyn Rensch expands her authoritative history of this timeless instrument. This lavishly illustrated edition, with 137 black-and-white images and 24 color plates, surveys the progress of the harp from antiquity to the present day. The new edition includes two new chapters; an extensive bibliography and index; personal anecdotes of the author's studies under Alberto Salvi; and an appendix on the Roslyn Rensch Papers and Harp Collection, which are housed at the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is an in-depth reference on many harp associated topics.It covers the history of the harp development, the history of music composed for it, history of harp playing as a profession, short biographies of many harpists and harp makers, indexes of harp players through history, references to all music composed for or transcribed for the harp through its publication date of 2007, thorough descriptions of the many harp related periodicals through time including the present ones, all the harp conferences and competitions over the last 100 years, up through mid 2007.I found many parts of the book very interesting. As a reference on harp music and playing it is superb and very thorough. There is even CD included, labeled "Some of the Many Voices of the Harp" So if the text reference isn't enough, you even have an audio reference.