The origins of the triangular frame harp are unclear. Triangular objects on the laps of seated figures appear in artwork of Ireland, Scotland, England...
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See also: Celtic harp The medieval harp refers to various types of harps played throughout Europe during the Middle Ages. The defining features are a three-sided...
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The Jew's harp, also known as jaw harp, juice harp, or mouth harp, is a lamellophone instrument, consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed...
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The Celtic harp is a triangular frame harp traditional to the Celtic nations of northwest Europe. It is known as cláirseach in Irish, clàrsach in Scottish...
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Rotte (psaltery) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Occidental" [The harp-zither (rota): its probable Byzantine origin and its Mediterranean trajectory towards Western Europe]. Journal of Musicology (in Spanish)...
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in India and China. By medieval times harps had spread across Europe. Harps were found across the Americas where it was a popular folk tradition in some...
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from the Sacred Harp Performed by the Alabama Sacred Harp Singers Problems playing this file? See media help. Sacred Harp singing is a tradition of sacred...
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Organ tablature Organetto Organology Organum Oriental riff Origin of the harp in Europe Origins of opera Oriscus Ornament (music) Orwell comma Ostinato Ossia...
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Music of Ireland Origin of the harp in Europe Tiompan Ann Buckley, "What was the Tiompán? A Problem in Ethnohistorical Organology. Evidence in Irish Literature"...
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Rotte (lyre) (redirect from Anglo-Saxon harp)
Ian. "The medieval harp (1/3): origins and development". an open harp on the Dupplin Cross...a pillar harp on one of the Monifieth sculptured stones.....
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Human evolution (redirect from Origins of Humanity in Interbreeding)
hominins (a tribe of the African hominid subfamily), indicating that human evolution was not linear but weblike. The study of the origins of humans involves...
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Psaltery (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
may have a Phoenician origin. The strings of the medieval instrument were usually made of metal, unlike the finger-plucked harp, strung with catgut, and...
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is the second-largest religion in Europe after Christianity. Although the majority of Muslim communities in Western Europe formed as a result of immigration...
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harps is a category in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system for musical instruments, a type of harp. The instrument may also be called bow harp...
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different from the Greek tradition, and is probably of Celtic origin. Compared to modern European harps, Greek angular and frame harps stand "upside down"...
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Several theories, in great extent mutually exclusive, address the issue of the origin of the Romanians. The Romanian language descends from the Vulgar Latin...
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Europeans are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various ethnic groups that reside in the states of Europe. Groups...
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Romani people (redirect from Roma people in Europe)
of Communism — 6. Minority groups". Pew Research Center. 14 October 2019. "Sondaj IRES: 7 din 10 români nu au încredere în romi". Radio Free Europe Romania...
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Nyckelharpa (redirect from Key harp)
"keyed fiddle" in Swedish, lit. 'key-harp', plural: nyckelharpor) is a "keyed" bowed chordophone, primarily originating from Sweden in its modern form...
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Susana Harp Iturribarria (born April 8, 1968) is a Mexican singer and politician. She currently serves as a senator representing the state of Oaxaca. Born...
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is a list of English-language words of Hindi and Urdu origin, two distinguished registers of the Hindustani language (Hindi-Urdu). Many of the Hindi and...
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Kora (instrument) (redirect from Kora harp)
which are played by plucking with the fingers. It has features of the lute and harp. The kora is built from a gourd, cut in half and covered with cow skin...
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Indian diaspora (redirect from Person of Indian Origin)
People of Indian Origin (PIOs) are people of Indian descent who reside or originate outside of India (Including those that were directly under the British...
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way". This term is also the origin of the name of the dance called Jig, which is very common in Northern Europe, especially in the UK and Ireland.[citation...
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This is a list of Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) products by country. Protected Designation of Origin is a Geographical Indication under EU and...
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Madeira (redirect from Geography of the Madeira Islands)
mə-DAIR-ə; European Portuguese: [mɐˈðɐjɾɐ]), officially the Autonomous Region of Madeira (Portuguese: Região Autónoma da Madeira), is an autonomous region of Portugal...
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The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total...
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Words of Chinese origin have entered European languages, including English. Most of these were direct loanwords from various varieties of Chinese. However...
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This is a list of international, national and subnational flags used in Europe. An incomplete list of flags representing intra-European international and...
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Black Death (redirect from How the black plague got to europe)
pandemic. The plague created religious, social and economic upheavals, with profound effects on the course of European history. The origin of the Black Death...
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