Roslyn Rensch

This 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 show more 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. show less

A good book on an ancient instrument. Features some Celtic harps and lever harps.

Dryish but with a good bibliographyy