Research Guides: Harp: Historic Overviews

Overviews of Harp History

The following books in the UO Libraries Music Collection provide detailed scholarly coverage of the history and development of the harp:

Western Classical Harp

Harps and Harpists by Roslyn Rensch
Call Number: ML1005 .R43 2007 & COMPACT DISC CX14809
Publication Date: 2007
Accompanying compact disc under separate call number.
The Harp: Its History, Technique and Repertoire by Roslyn Rensch
Call Number: ML1005 .R42
Publication Date: 1969
The Harp: A History of the Harp Throughout the World: Harp Notation by Marcel Tournier
Call Number: ML1005 .T685
Publication Date: 1959
Harp Music in the Nineteenth Century by Hans Joachim Zingel; Mark Palkovic (Editor)
Call Number: ML1008 .Z5613 1992
Publication Date: 1992
The History of the Erard Piano and Harp in Letters and Documents, 1785-1959 by Robert Adelson (Editor); Alain Roudier (Editor); Jenny Nex (Editor); Laure Barthel (Editor); Michel Foussard (Editor)
Call Number: ML404 .H57 2015
Publication Date: 2015

Ethnic Harp Traditions

Tree of Strings/Crann nan teud: A History of the Harp in Scotland by Keith Sanger; Alison Kinnaerd
Call Number: ML1005 .S22 1992
Publication Date: 1999
Music, Ireland and the Seventeenth Century by Barra Boydell (Editor); Kerry Houston (Editor)
Call Number: ML3799 .I75 1990 v. 10
Publication Date: 2009
"Burmese Ached Harp" [book chapter] by Williamson, Robert M.
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2010
Chapter published in The Science of String Instruments, edited by Thomas D. Rossing.
"The Harp in India Today" [article] by Roderic Knight
Call Number: ML1 .E77 & PHONODISC DMbl 27
Publication Date: 1985
Article from Ethnomusicology vol. 29 no. 1, pp. 9-28
"Harp music of the Azande and related peoples in the Central African Republic" [book chapter] by Gerhard Kubik
Call Number: ML350 .K83 1994 & COMPACT DISC CX3013
Publication Date: 1994
Chapter from Theory of African Music. Accompanying compact disc under separate call number.
"Acoustics and Evolution of Arched Harps" [article] by Bo Lawergren
Call Number: ML5 .G26 Vol. 34
Publication Date: 1981
Article published in The Galpin Society Journal, vol. 34 pp. 110-29

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