The Study of the Ancient and Medieval Harp


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This is the first volume of a series of compilations of music-archaeological bibliographic source material.







National Union Catalog


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Includes entries for maps and atlases.










Library of Congress Catalog


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A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.




Harps and Harpists


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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.




Studies in the Performance of Late Medieval Music


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This volume presents a series of important essays on some of the problems involved in attempting to perform music of the late Middle Ages.




Instruments and their Music in the Middle Ages


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This is a collection of twenty-nine of the most influential articles and papers about medieval musical instruments and their repertory. The authors discuss the construction of the instruments, their playing technique, the occasions for which they performed and their repertory. Taken as a whole, they paint a very broad, as well as detailed, picture of instrumental performance during the medieval period.