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	Music of Brittany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Though the harp had been common in Brittany in the Middle Ages, the instrument had disappeared by the 18th century.
		Since then and during the 50s, the Celtic harp or Breton harp has taken its place back into Breton music thanks to Jord and his son Alan Cochevelou; Alan was the first person to play it in public and became world famous called Alan Stivell.
		Undoubtedly the most famous name in modern Breton music is Alan Stivell, who popularized the Celtic harp first in the fifties and sixties and on a wider level since the 1970s, with a series of albums including most famously Renaissance de la Harpe Celtique (1971).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Brittany (2745 words)

	Harp instructors for Celtic Days harp festival on Lake Constance
		The celtic harp is for her an instrument proper which allows her to play different styles of music, even if she nowadays prefers folk music from the various Cletic countries, and in particular that of her native country, Brittany.
		Thanks to her dynamic harping, the young musician brings a very personal touch to Breton music, seeking to have her passion for her instrument and for the music of her country shared.
		She studied Celtic Harp with Janet Harbison, and she is a member of the noted Belfast Harp Orchestra, with which she has frequently toured and recorded a CD.
	www.harp.net /Kora/Instruct.htm (782 words)

	Breton JAF Part 3: Pipes and Harp
		In moving on to discuss the harp, we have passed from a discussion of pre-existing traditions drawn upon by Alan Stivell in his early recordings, to one of the many trends in Breton music that owe much of their existence to Stivell's early career.
		Like the Scottish pipes, the Irish harp is a recent import to Brittany's musical landscape, and one that seems to have survived the transplant to thrive in its new environment.
		The harp, on which Stivell was one of the earliest innovators, is played now by many individuals and groups.
	dolphin.upenn.edu /~teachnet/Bretonjaf/bretonjaf3.html (1903 words)

	musicke.com - profiles of classical music artists
		Her repertoire of songs and solo harp music is a special blend of original compositions, Pan-Celtic, French Canadian and Cape Breton, and traditional Scottish and Irish music.
		Early harp instruction was with Alison Hunter, Miranda Brown, and especially Elizabeth Volpé, the VSO Principle Harpist.
		Her appearances in Ontario include The Toronto Harp Festival (2001), where Alys was invited to perform as a soloist, was accompanied by Graham Kennedy on percussion, and gave the premiere of her own composition “Nocturne” for two harps (with Sharlene Wallace).
	profiles.musicke.com /alys (1922 words)

	Celtic Harp FAQ
		Lever, or folk, harps, are so called because the mechanisms used to change keys are levers that are attached to the harp and push against the strings to make them shorter and thus sharpen the string.
		The advantage of lever harps is that they are lighter and more portable, and can come in any size, from tiny lap harp to full-size floor harp.
		Lever harps are usually strung with a blend of nylon monofilament, nylon wound, and metal wound (nylon core).
	www.celticharper.com /faq.html (649 words)

	general list
		Undoubtedly the most famous name in modern Breton music is Alan Stivell, who popularized the Celtic harp with a series of albums in the early 1970s, including most famously Renaissance de la Harpe Celtique (1971) and Chemins de Terre (1973).
		His harp was built by his father, who based it off the plans for the medieval Irish Brian Boru harp; this type was unknown in Brittany before Stivell.
		Early in the 20th century, harps were imported from the British Isles by people like Gildas Jaffrenou, who built a "Breton harp" from the 14th century plans for the Brian Boru model.
	xoomer.virgilio.it /pfreelance/regioni/Brittany.htm (2025 words)

	New Lever Harps
		It is the perfect harp for a beginner of any age or as a traveling harp.
		This noveltiy harp is a very portable and an excellent choice for a beginner or therapy harpist visiting a hospice or convalesant centers.
		The Breton Lotus is a lightweight portable therapy lever harp perfect for the traveling harpist visiting patients.
	www.harphaven.com /store/productlist.asp?department=207 (386 words)

	breton supplement part 2
		Thus, Breton musicians have been without models for authentically Breton harp techniques, and without a corpus of courtly harp melodies analogous to the wealth of Irish and Welsh material.
		The Breton influence on Le Tron's music is probably the most clearly apparent (he got his start playing biniou in a Breton band), but there are hints of other styles as well.
		The inclusion of both the bombarde (a typically Breton instrument) and the musette (typically an instrument from the central regions of France) along with the accordion, which is played all over, gives the band a unique sound that can be identified with no particular region.
	dolphin.upenn.edu /~teachnet/bretonsup/bretonsup2.html (1786 words)

	Alan Stivell MP3 Downloads - Alan Stivell Music Downloads - Alan Stivell Music Videos
		His father was the rediscoverer of the Breton harp, but he started his musical life on a somewhat more conventional instrument, taking up the piano at age five.
		He was given a harp by his father at age nine, and studied for the next several years under the direction of his father and Miss D. Megevand, a concert harpist, freely mixing classical repertory and arrangements of Breton, English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh folk material.
		The harp had a long and honored place in the history of the Celtic peoples, first embraced (and possibly invented) by the primordial Irish people, who carried it to Scotland and Wales, and later to Brittany and the rest of the European mainland.
	www.mp3.com /alan-stivell/artists/671/biography.html (925 words)

	Breton JAF Part 1: Introduction
		It also makes clear that Bretons, if they can be seen as a single people, have been in conflict to some degree with the French--if indeed they are a people--off and on for considerably more than a millenium.
		The harp had been built by Jord Cochevelou, his father, based on the plans of the famous medieval Irish "Brian Boru" harp, and was the first of this ancient type in Brittany.
		They introduced the Celtic harp to the Breton recording scene, and admitted influences from the folk music of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the United States, as well as from classical, pop, and rock and roll.
	pobox.upenn.edu /~teachnet/Bretonjaf/bretonjaf1.html (2283 words)

	Dan Ar Braz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dan Ar Braz, born Daniel Le Bras (1949, Quimper, Brittany), is a Breton guitarist and the founder of Héritage des Celtes.
		Alan Stivell and his musicians embraced Breton, Scottish, Irish music, and included Gabriel Yacoub who later formed Malicorne.
		Alan's father had made a reconstruction of the ancient Breton harp in 1953 and Alan learned to play the harp, bagpipes and Irish flute.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dan_Ar_Braz (724 words)

	The Celtic godfather - [Sunday Herald]
		Born Alan Cochevelou in 1944 (later adopting as his surname the Breton for “source” or “spring”), Stivell was nine when his father presented him with a hand-built replica of the ancient Breton harp, an instrument that had effectively disappeared, along with a politically independent Brittany, after the 15th century.
		It was partly the way he made the harp the main focus of the band, but also the way he used other instruments to create a really big sound – that helped me open up my own musical palette.
		Breton music has been a big influence on me, and I know it was important in helping to spark the Spanish Celtic revival, too.
	www.sundayherald.com /39181 (990 words)

	Harp Folks Non-Web List
		This is a list of harp makers, companies, performers and teachers who don't have a web page yet, or at least not one that has all the current information relevant to these sections.
		The CSCB is not-for-profit and is devoted to reviving the traditional clarsach in Cape Breton and elsewhere throughout Canada.
		Barbara has thorough knowledge of the classical harp literature, for solo, chamber and orchestral playing, and she is marvelously inventive in helping the student discover the most effective way to practice, and to approach the harp in the most ergonomical, physiologically healthy fashion from her extensive training in the Alexander technique.
	www.celticharper.com /noweblist.html (1766 words)

	Harp-Harfe-Harpe-Arpa-Harpa / Edinburgh Harp Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Mother and daughter are exponents of the Japanese Harp, the koto, and their rendition of traditional and modern Japanese compositions gave an exciting new dimension to the Festival.
		One of the aims of this year’s programme was to show the small harp in its international context, and, with music and musicians from Paraguay, Finland, China, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, students were able to sample truly a world of harping.
		Paraguayan harp classes were provided at both beginner and advanced levels, and further advanced classes included Welsh music, Scottish music for both wire strung harps and gut strung harps, ensemble playing and arranging traditional music in contemporary style.
	www.harpa.com /edinburgh/index.htm (3144 words)

	Harp Spectrum
		The answer to this question has yet to be settled; what is certain, though, is that the harp has had a connection to Celtic lands and stories in the imaginations of Europeans for centuries, a connection extending back before the Irish Literary Renaissance, before O'Carolan and the itinerant and court harpers of Ireland and Scotland.
		Scotland has three, the harp, the tabor, and the crowth or crowd [the crwth]; and Wales, the harp, the pipes, and the crowd.
		Two of the so-called Breton lays that have come down to us from the Middle English period begin with almost the same twenty-two line opening, an opening which both defines the characteristics of the Breton lay and pays homage to the harpers of Brittany.
	www.harpspectrum.org /historical/wood_short.shtml (1448 words)

	Harp Spectrum
		Sold throughout the world, Camac harps from France are appreciated for their high quality and amazing innovations, and the Camac Harps Company is known for its dynamic approach and dedication to producing and refining its instruments.
		Or we may work on harp improvements, from the smallest part of the harp to the construction of the whole instrument.
		During the World Harp Trophy competitions in 1988 harpmaker Joel Garnier, a longtime friend, invited the 22-year-old François to come to his workshop, learn to regulate harps, and test the harps he had made.
	www.harpspectrum.org /harpworks/francois.shtml (650 words)

	Newfoundland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The province where this island is located was also called "Newfoundland" until 2001, when its name was changed to "Newfoundland and Labrador" (the postal abbreviation was later changed from NF to NL).
		Newfoundland is separated from the Labrador Peninsula by the Strait of Belle Isle and from Cape Breton Island by the Cabot Strait.
		Newfoundland is also host to a well-recognized university, Memorial University of Newfoundland, based in St.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Newfoundland (3442 words)

	Breton JAF Part 4: New Forms 1, Folk and Fest-Noz
		It was after his precocious start on the harp, and after his years with the bagad, that Stivell set out to innovate in the field of Breton folk music.
		The name bal breton has not stuck, however, and fest-noz is the term most frequently employed by musicians today; it can now refer to either the more local gathering or the more cosmopolitan event.
		For Bretons who lived with Breton music and dance as a normal part of their lives, the fest-noz (in the area of Brittany that used the term) was simply another occasion to hear and participate in the music of their community.
	pobox.upenn.edu /~teachnet/Bretonjaf/bretonjaf4.html (3158 words)

	Harp Sheet Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Written specifically for the 26 string Harpsicle made by the Tasty Harp Co., but could be used without editing by any lap harp strung with its longest string being the C below middle C to the G 25 strings above or by larger harps.
		Arrangements of traditional Celtic tunes for harp, harp and voice or C treble instrument such as flute.
		Arranged for all harps, keys from one flat to two sharps with minimal lever or pedal changes and nifty modulations within some of the pieces.
	www.harpconnection.com /storepages/category2-page7.html (1537 words)

	dirty linen
		The harp was an unusual instrument in Brittany during Stivell's youth; it had been common during the middle ages, but had died out in Breton tradition prior to the 20th century.
		Some harps were being imported from Britain and Ireland, however, and a movement was starting whose aim was to re-create an older style of Breton harp.
		Bleimor was a part of the Paris Breton associations, so there were many festivals, so we were of course meeting other Bretons and other Breton musicians." Stivell spent a total of about 15 years with the bagad, which he only left after his solo career had taken off in the 1970s.
	www.dirtylinen.com /linen/91/stivell.html (646 words)

	Alan Stivell - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		In 1967, he formed a group consisting of himself on harp, bagpipes, and Irish flute and Dan Ar Bras on electric guitar, backed by bass and drums.
		Alan Stivell played his father's first modern Breton harp for the first time in 1953, and within 20 years there were over 100 players where there had been none.
		A somewhat enigmatic figure, given his focus on Breton culture, Stivell is one of the most compelling of folk musicians, and has achieved stature outside the folk music world, such that musicians like Kate Bush have appeared on his recent albums.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,497770,00.html (1019 words)

	Traditional Scottish, Irish and World music artists, groups and musicians using the tradmusic.com traditional music ...
		The pioneer of modern Breton music, Cochevelou learned the piano before his father remade the ancient Breton Celtic harp for his young son to play.
		In addition to studying traditional Breton music on the wire-strung Celtic harp, Cochevelou explored the music of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the west country of England on tin whistle, bagpipes and Irish flute.
		In 1967, he formed a group comprising himself on harp, bagpipes, Irish flute and Dan Ar Bras on electric and acoustic guitar, as well as adding percussion and bass.
	www.tradmusic.com /artistinfo.asp?artistID=676 (298 words)

	Alan Stivell : Zoom 70-95 - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Breton harpist Alan Stivell brought the Breton harp out of the pages of history and into reality.
		His album The Renaissance of the Celtic Harp (a Grammy award winner in 1972), which included nature sounds, was revolutionary then, and sounds fresh even today.
		There are 35 tracks in all here; the album ends with the epic "Lands of My Fathers." The ending chorus is sung by the 15,000 spectators singing a Breton and Welsh anthem at a rugby match, with Stivell singing a passionate descant overhead.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,302043,00.html (379 words)

	Clarsach.net : Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Formally trained as a classical musician, she brings to the Gaelic harp nearly 20 years experience teaching music.
		The foremost interpreter of the Robert ap Huw harp manuscript, he explores late-medieval and Renaissance repertoire on the different harps of that period.
		Playing a replica 17th century Irish harp using traditional fingernail techniques, his music is innovative and modern.
	www.clarsach.net /artists.htm (328 words)

	The Thistle & Shamrock Newsletter Article: Musique Bretonnes
		Their singing style is known as dan ha diskan (chant and counterchant) where singers trade the melody of the song back and forth with a characteristic overlap at the end of each phrase.
		In the mid-1950s, a resurrection of Breton harp playing and a renewed and growing interest in kan ha diskan reunited many Bretons with striking aspects of their culture they may soon have completely forgotten.
		Their new compositions fall into step along-side traditional tunes and songs, allowing Bretons to foresee a future for their music as surely healthy as it will be melodic.
	www.npr.org /programs/thistle/features/breton_art.html (500 words)

	World Music Central - Your connection to World Music
		For more than three decades, he has been at the forefront of a cultural and musical revival that honors the centuries-old Celtic traditions of the French province of Brittany, called Breizh by its native inhabitants, while mesmerizing audiences around the globe with his spirited virtuosity and vast repertoire in which the recognizable meets the unexpected.
		The first Celtic harp prototype featured nylon cords and was decorated with Celtic motifs.
		There was no Breton repertory for the harp so Alan made new arrangements of traditional Breton, Irish, Welsh and Scottish folk tunes.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /artists/artist_page.php?id=12 (453 words)

	Alan Stivell
		Until Stivell's father, Jord Cochevelou built a Breton harp (which he based on medieval Irish harps) in 1953, and nine-year old Alan played it, the region's traditional music had virtually vanished.
		Taking the name Stivell (Breton for ‘the source'), Alan determined to single-handedly revive the music of his people - he was Celtic long before Celtic was cool.
		The softer side is still there, as on "Harpe De Vies," but along with acoustic heart he's also brought the bass and the noise to tracks like "Rock Harp," with its neo-jungle rhythm.
	www.globalvillageidiot.net /stivell.htm (561 words)

	Forum Beginning in the Middle: Harp Beginner
		My harp teacher proposed two for me as they have their agent in Hong Kong and well know of course.
		These are L and H and Salvi; on the other hand, I trust that my first harp won't be my last one so I tend to find a nice but not expensive harp for practice.
		For your reference, harp made in China is going to the market (other than Taiwan manufactured): one of the harp teacher bought 2 lever harp in Shanghai, China that they both have nice sound (better than their expectation).
	www.harpcolumn.com /forum/message-view?message_id=85937 (546 words)

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