Research Guides: Harp: Performance Practice

Performance Practice Resources for Harp

The UO Libraries Music Collection includes the following guides to various aspects of harp performance practice:

Historical Methods

"The Renaissance Harp: The Instrument and Its Music" [article] by Michael Morrow
Call Number: Online Access
Publication Date: 1979
Article published in Early Music vol. 7, no. 4 (1979): 499-510.
"The Early Irish Harp" [article] by Simon Chadwick
Call Number: Online Access
Publication Date: 2008
Article published in Early Music vol. 26, no. 4 (2008): 521-31.

Contemporary Methods

Guide to the Contemporary Harp by Mathilde Aubat-Andrieu; Laurence Bancaud; Aurélie Barbé; Hélène Breschand
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2019
The Irish Harp by Joan Rimmer
Call Number: ML1005 .R55 1984
Publication Date: 1984
A Harp in the School: A Guide for School Ensemble Directors and Harpists by Chelcy Bowles
Call Number: MT540 .H37 2006
Publication Date: 2006
Writing for the Pedal Harp by Ruth K. Inglefield; Lou A. Neill
Call Number: MT540 .I53 1985 & PHONODISC DMbl 13
Publication Date: 1983
Includes accompanying phonodisc under separate call number.
The Complete Guide to the Harp Glissandi: Including a Comprehensive Table of All Possible Pedal Changes by John Marson
Call Number: MT540.M3 C6
Publication Date: 1966
A Method for the Harp by Kajetan A. Attl; Arthur Floyd Agard
Call Number: MT542 .A77 1924
Publication Date: 1924
Complete Method for Harp by Henriette Renié
Call Number: MT542 .R4 (2 volumes)
Publication Date: 1966
Principal Harp: A Guide-book for the Orchestral Harpist by Sarah Bullen
Call Number: MT546.B85 P7 1995 & COMPACT DISC CX10519
Publication Date: 1995
Includes compact disc under separate call number.
Orchester Studien: Harfe = Harp by Gustav Mahler; Dagmar Busse-Lorberth
Call Number: MT546.M25 B8 1987
Publication Date: 1987

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