John Marson
The Book Of The Harp
(gebunden)
John Marson
The Book Of The Harp
(gebunden)
- Besetzung Harfe
- Komponist John Marson
- Ausgabe Buch
- Verlag Kevin Mayhew Publishers
- Bestell-Nr. KM1400373
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Beschreibung:
With more harpists than ever before, the harp is an instrument which has successfully demonstrated its staying power and important role both in music and beyond, ' claims John Marson. His Book of the Harp is a unique and definitive work distilled from a wealth of experience: a lifetime's study and research and an outstanding professional career. John Marson traces the development of the harp from its earliest origins thousands of years BC to the invention of the pedal harp in the eighteenth century and the harps of the twenty first century. He examines the writings of many forgotten exponents of the harp (inventors, players, composers) and provides a fully comprehensive view of every make, model and modification to the present day. The Book of the Harp is a rich source of information, entertainment and anecdote on everything from strings, tuning, principles of fingering and tone production, historical influences, designs, techniques and methods, to the harp's literary associations and those with the theatre and cinema, its Celtic and religious symbolism, virtuoso players and its appearance in the poetry of Milton and novels of Jane Austen. Both historical and practical, The Book of the Harp is an authoritative source of entertainment and a fascinating study for student, professional musician and interested reader alike. About the author John Marson has enjoyed a glittering career during which he has been principal harpist of the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Professor of Harp at the Royal College of Music and soloist and freelance. He has worked with countless musical stars including the Beatles, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Benjamin Britten, Charlie Chaplin, Bing Crosby, John Dankworth, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Martha Graham, Hans Werner Henze, Herbert von Karajan, Otto Klemperer, Zoltan Kodaly, Liberace, Lorin Maazel, Neville Marriner, Pierre Monteux, Jessye Norman, Laurence Olivier, Luciano Pavarotti, Gennadi Rozhdestvenski, Frank Sinatra, Georg Solti, Leopold Stokowski, Igor Stravinsky, Joan Sutherland, Georg Szell, William Walton, Stevie Wonder and countless others. In 1964 John Marson co-founded, with Michael Jefferies, the United Kingdom Harpists Association (later United Kingdom Harp Association) and edited its magazine for many years.