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Well, Gregory,
You seem to have waked up the list! And, touche, I'm on the spot! I haven't written anything about the Egyptian harp, in part because I have gotten busy with other issues this year, and haven't had much time with the instrument. But I can see that I'm going to need to make time, not only for you all but for ME! I got the instrument because it seemed a good one for working on Andalusian songs, which is a project that my group, the Jubilatores, has gotten into. Since Andalusia was the one place in Europe that was a melting pot for Arabic and European culture, such a harp would have been known to the Europeans first in that land. The source that I am working with points out that the Arabs had more musical modes than the Pythagorean-tuned church modes.
I know so little about more ancient modes of music for the harp, that I want to begin with the Andalusian connection.
I need to make a long story short right now, and tell you that most of my work with the harp in the last year has been simply in tuning it and listening to it carefully, and I have been trying various ways to tune it, listening to intervals and little snatches of tune. I have much, much more work to do before I have much more to report, but I think it's going to be an interesting journey! I'll keep you posted, and I may be able to do a paper or something either for the Medieval Congress or for the HHS Conference in 2007.
I know this will wake things up a little more. Anybody else have insights on this?
-----Original Message-----
From: HistoricalHarp@yahoogroups.com [mailto:HistoricalHarp@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of gregory balsewicz
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 11:27 PM
To: HistoricalHarp@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [HistoricalHarp] moribundity in historical harp sitehi david, thanks for responding! as a matter of fact i have been waiting for YOU to write an update on your experiences with the egyptian harp. how's that been going?gregory
dchristiannelson <dchristiannelson@...> wrote:Gregory,These things come and go, as people have time and energy to deal with things. My experience with the lute nets has been, that the list-serves go in fits and starts. They heat up with something interesting or controversial, and then they run their course. The best way to get some action is to foment it! What has been your most burning question about old harps lately?David Nelson-----Original Message-----it's sort of sad when the last three postings to this site, each
From: HistoricalHarp@yahoogroups.com [mailto:HistoricalHarp@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of gregory balsewicz
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 1:32 AM
To: HistoricalHarp@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HistoricalHarp] moribundity in historical harp site
posted a month apart, are for the historical harp logo. how can we
make this a vibrant, happening forum for those of us with historical
interests in harping? what can get the ball rolling so this site
serves its membership the way the other on-line harp groups do?
perhaps we're all deluded and historical harp is really boring- even
to us! in any case, there have to be more interesting things going on
in the society than searching for a logo. anyone care to jump in and
add their two cents?
gregory (yawn)
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