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Renaissance of the Celtic Harp. (1972) À l'Olympia. (1972) Renaissance de la Harpe Celtique or Renaissance of the Celtic Harp is a 1972 [1][2] record album by the Breton master of the Celtic harp Alan Stivell that revolutionised the connection between traditional folk music, modern rock music and world music. [3]
The Celtic harp is a triangular frame harp traditional to the Celtic nations of northwest Europe. It is known as cláirseach in Irish, clàrsach in Scottish Gaelic, telenn in Breton and telyn in Welsh. In Ireland and Scotland, it was a wire -strung instrument requiring great skill and long practice to play, and was associated with the Gaelic ...
The medieval harp refers to various types of harps played throughout Europe during the Middle Ages. The defining features are a three-sided frame (column, harmonic curve, and soundboard) [2] and strings made of wire or gut. The instrument was most popular in Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales, and Scandinavia. [2]
"Crystal Harp" solid-body (Goas-Stivell, 1987) Alan Stivell was born in the Auvergnat town of Riom.His father, Georges (Jord in Breton) Cochevelou, was a civil servant in the French Ministry of Finance who achieved his dream of recreating a Celtic or Breton harp in the small town of Gourin, Brittany [2] and his mother Fanny-Julienne Dobroushkess was of Lithuanian-Jewish descent.
Sylvia Woods (born 1951 in Tennessee) is an American harpist and composer, [1] and is perhaps best known for her role in the worldwide renaissance of the Celtic harp, or cláirseach. [2] Woods began selling and writing music for Celtic harps in the 1970s, when the instrument was not widely known in the United States, contributing to a ...
The knowledge and designs of harps and lyres probably arrived in ancient Europe via Grecian regions from the ancient Middle-East. [a] This may have been happened as early as in the peak times of the Celtic civilization, as suggested by the lyre fragment found at the High Pasture Cave site, dated to approximately 300 BCE.
The Trinity College harp, also known as " Brian Boru's harp ", is a medieval musical instrument on display in the long room at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. It is an early Irish harp or wire-strung cláirseach. It is dated to the 14th or 15th century and, along with the Queen Mary Harp and the Lamont Harp, is the oldest [1] of three ...
The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orchestras or concerts. Its most common form is triangular in shape and made of wood.