The harp has its hindrances, and a lot of composers are terrified of writing solo music for it. This instrument has 47 strings, each tuned like the white notes of a piano, with the player’s feet ...

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Wales has an unbroken tradition of harp playing. It was used as a dance instrument and for playing tunes and airs. The tradition owes its survival to the gypsy families of Wales who kept harp ...

The concert harp is famous for its heavenly image. It hasn’t always had a place in orchestral music, but since the 19th century composers like Ravel and Debussy have been in love with the instrument ...

Exhibitions Promoting Kouxian Culture The Chinese National Museum of Ethnology (CNME) has organized several exhibitions, under the theme of "The Beginning Sound," in recent years, to highlight the ...

Wales has an unbroken tradition of harp playing. It was used as a dance instrument and for playing tunes and airs. The tradition owes its survival to the gypsy families of Wales who kept harp ...

It originated in Italy around 1600, but owing to its popularity in Wales by the end of the 18th century, it has become widely known as 'The Welsh Harp'. The instrument has three rows of strings ...

Even more remarkably, the instrument she plays this day, a cunningly scaled-down version of a harp, has also survived largely as a result of her singular passion for our collective musical past.

Since moving to Chicago 25 years ago, Rockford-born bassist Matt Ulery has put out 15 albums of originals. His next is ...

In the midst of balancing textbooks for his philosophy classes and the steep responsibilities of being chair of the ...