جهت استعلام قیمت، خرید و مشاهده نمونه صفحه محصول، لطفاً از طریق پشتیبانی فروشگاه در واتساپ و تلگرام اقدام فرمایید.
Nine Traditional Tunes from Ireland, Scotland and England Arranged for Lever Harp
by Frances M. Thiele
At the end of the eighteenth century, Edward Bunting published a major work of Irish music called A General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland
(1797). He followed this publication with two more collections in 1809
and 1840. Many of the tunes in these books came from the harpers he
heard performing at the Belfast Harp Festival in 1792. In the first part
of his 1840 collection, Bunting described the “natural key” of the harp
used by the Irish harpers as leith glass or leithghlas.
The Irish harpers tuned their instrument in this key, which we would
recognize as G major because it had an F sharp. Frances Thiele’s Leith Glass
explores the musical possibilities and sounds achievable with a single
tuning on the lever harp. The collection includes nine traditional tunes
from Ireland, Scotland and England that together give a sense of the
many musical colors that can be produced from the leith glass tuning if
we think modally like the harpers of old. Suitable for intermediate
lever harp players, the arrangements are all playable on a 34-string
lever harp with sharping levers on F and C (C# is only required for one
of the pieces with accidentals – “My Lagan Love”). The lowest note used
is C, two octaves below middle C.