TY - BOOK AU - Carysfort Press Ltd. PY - 2021 CY - Oxford, United Kingdom PB - Peter Lang Verlag TI - The Irish Harp Book T2 - A Tutor and Companion- Including works by the following:- The Harper-Composers- 17 th -19 th Century Irish Composers- Contemporary Irish Composers (work for this volume commissioned by Cairde na Cruite)- Facsimile Edition UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1104645 N2 - Contents: The Instrument - Compass - Strings - Tuning - Blades – Placing the Instrument – Key-Board, Key change system, Keys Position of hands (diagrams) – Independence of Fingering - Equality of Tone – Chord Playing - Articulation – Damped Sounds – Octaves – Gliding – Harmonics – Recapitulation – Glissando – Relative Minor Scales - C, G and D (Harmonic Form) – Relative Minor Scales - A and E – Scales in all possible keys, Arpeggios and Inversions, Sixths and Tenths – Contrary Motion (One Octave) – Dominant Seventh Chord and Inversions, Similar Motion – Dominant Seventh Chord and Inversions, Similar and Contrary Motion – Diminished Seventh Chord and Inversions, Similar Motion – Complete Scale Programme as in Eleventh Lesson – Diminished Seventh Chord and Inversions. Similar and Contrary Motion. KW - Harp, Drums, String LA - English ER -