Harps and harpists

Revising her classic 1989 book Harps and Harpists, Roslyn Rensch expands her authoritative history of this timeless instrument. This lavishly illustrated edition, with 137 black-and-white images and 24 color plates, surveys the progress of the harp from antiquity to the present day. The new edition includes two new chapters; an extensive bibliography and index; personal anecdotes of the author's studies under Alberto Salvi; and an appendix on the Roslyn Rensch Papers and Harp Collection, which are housed at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign.

• I The Harp in the Ancient World
• 1 The beginning
• 2 Beyond the Earliest Sources
• II The Non-Pedal Harp in Western Europe and North America
• 3 Early Representations
• 4 The Harp in Art, 1200-1665
• 5 The Harp in Literature and Music
• 6 Concerning Non-pedal Harps and Harpists
• III The Pedal Harp in Western Europe and North America
• 7 Some Early Harps, Harpists and Music
• 8 From Single to Double Action
• 9 The Colonies and the United States
• 10 The Harp International
• IV Retrospection and the Future
• 11 Some Notable Events
• 12 Four Essays by the Author