Summer Reading
Summer reading for husband George Matthew and myself has always been scholarly… Middlebury College Davis Library and inter-library loan provides the majority of our research texts, in addition to those books we already own. While George continues to research his ethnomusicological interests in the traditional music and instruments of ancient India and in Jewish sacred […]
Playing sacred music on the Irish wire-strung harp From reading neums to playing strings...
Sing unto the Lord with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm. – Psalm 98:5 My preceding posts on reading Gregorian chant didn’t go into how to play it on the wire-strung harp. Gregorian chant is a vocal music, not an instrumental one. So there’s a little bit of re-interpretation here. […]
New to the Wire Harp? (non-historical wire-strung harp)
If you’ve just discovered the wire harp (or heard one being played), for starters it’s good to know that most folks in the overall world of harps (Classical, Celtic) tend to think of historical Irish wire-strung harp when this branch of the harp family comes up. That is, replica instruments of period harps made in […]