The obverse of all denominations bore a harp, along with the legend Saorstat Eireann and the date the coin was struck. |
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Other creations include a retooled vintage piano, violins, wooden bells and a harp. |
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Smith and his colleagues are currently in Charlottetown, watch-dogging the commercial hunt for baby harp seals. |
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The harp seal and the minke whale together consume about the same amount of biomass as the Norwegian fishermen land, i.e. about 3 million tonnes. |
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I casually plucked a few strings on the harp then strolled over to the harpsichord. |
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The Bayou Brothers sound features a variety of instruments including the double bass, harmonica, washboard, kazoo, jaw harp, guitar and mandolin. |
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The curious bearded seal and harp seal birth their pups nearby ice floes or merely bask in the warmth of the midnight sun. |
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This arrangement demands an extremely colourful orchestra that includes piccolo, four horns, harp, orchestral bells, and tam-tam. |
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On this album there aren't any real strings or any orchestra instruments like harp or timpani. |
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The wind harp achieved its popularity in Romantic poetry largely because of its symbolic relationship with the forces of Nature. |
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The orchestra is most likely to be double woodwind, horns and trumpets, harp, piano, percussion and strings. |
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The harp is played by pulling down the length of a string with rosined gloves. |
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Many of the verses harp on the illicit and conjure a false world where women are mistresses and men, philanderers. |
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Playing everything from harp to bagpipes the band played at festivals, parades, shows and more. |
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The modern concert harp has 46 or 47 strings and a compass of six and a half octaves. |
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It was the slapstick premise of a woman who's innocently walking down the street when a harp flails out of a window and lands on her. |
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With a deep breath, Jeananne plucked at her harp and sang a shrieking tune to the only audience member without the means to block out sound. |
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The harp becomes the polyphonic instrument of choice as will be continually explained. |
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There is nothing florid here, nothing in the tradition of Romantic harp music. |
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The fiddle and harp were the most respectable, played by the troubadours and associated with courtly love. |
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The music is played on a small harp and a four-string guitar called the cuatro, with rattles for keeping the rhythm. |
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I began to read voraciously not only about harps, harpists, and harp music, but to find out about eisteddfodic Welshness. |
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Conclusion comes in a diminuendo where the piano accompanied by the harp slowly melts into silence in a long arpeggio. |
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Then we distribute them to the examinees, harp at them on how to fill things out, make sure the serial numbers match, etc. |
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Two flutes, mandolin, harp, and solo lower strings give an airy lightness to the sounds that accompany the two female dancers. |
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This has been a dream for the past 28 years since I saw my first wind harp on a ridge in Vermont. |
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Particularly clever is the use of the extracted reverberation from the harp, used as an eerie synthesizer patch in its own right. |
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She does not teach the harp exclusively but also the piano and the recorder. |
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Yes, we weren't the greatest vocalist, dancers, or harp players, or anything, but we were good showmen. |
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His music is an accessible blend of African drums, mouth harp, flute, kalimba, kora and several other instruments. |
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Most tuitional material for the beginner will require a C harp for you to play along with it. |
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Percussion and even the early harp played no part in the great development from monody to polyphony. |
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It's like comparing the sound of a broken blender to the sound of harp strings blown by the wind. |
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The national emblem is a carved Irish shamrock adorning Government House, and the island's flag and crest show a woman with a cross and harp. |
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My efforts to rescue the Aeolian harp from oblivion have earned me a Royal Commendation. |
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It has an often light orchestration, with lots of harp, tinkly percussion, and celesta and even harpsichord. |
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When an aeolian harp string is activated by the wind, the fundamental is never sounded, only the overtone series. |
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Music thanatologists use the harp because of its universality and rich, soothing tones. |
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She rocked the gleaming harp towards her, nestling it into its accustomed spot on her right shoulder. |
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The strings on the wind harp are tuned to the pentatonic, 5 note scale, commonly heard in oriental music. |
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A giant wind harp is the centerpiece of the newly constructed Reflections Garden located between the Nancy Thompson Library and Downs Hall. |
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A common instrument from those times was the tetrachord, a kind of four-stringed harp. |
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An exquisite piece of workmanship, it is operated by a manual lever and recreates the sounds of the harp, harmonica and piccolo. |
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I know he hates it when I harp on about that, but I shall keep harping on about it until we get the answers. |
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As if a film about three women has to have all the traditionally feminine sounds, and you can't get more feminine than strings, piano and harp. |
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A casual, rusticated set with hay bales, trellises entwined with climbers and gentle harp music played live, establish a mood for us. |
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On the modern harp, players pluck the strings near the middle with the pads of their fingers. |
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The McElliott family hopes the harmonic sounds of the wind harp will lift the spirits of all those who visit this special tribute. |
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The harp form raised on a slender knopped standard and tripod cabriole legs ending in spade feet. |
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Materials for the Rebec would be much the same as for the harp or lyre, although the Rebec has only three strings. |
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Around sixth grade or so, I learned a lot about West African and Venezuelan harp music. |
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In 1987 decades of protest culminated in a ban on the clubbing of white-furred harp seal pups in Canada. |
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They sat next to each other, face-to face, in the background, a roundelay of harp music playing softly. |
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If I harp on how rotten the production is, it's because I have few qualms with the music, outside of the first track, which is just aimless. |
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Bennett's writing is highly sensitive, with delicate writing for the harp and harpsichord, as well as for the violist. |
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Pressing the magic fax button was for him far more alarming than the intricacies of the concert, pedal harp. |
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The angels are playing a collection of musical instruments, including the harp, tambourine, cymbals, lyre and psaltery. |
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In two days up to 200 fishing boats hunt harp seals found on the pack ice north of Fogo Island and off the coast of Labrador. |
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The variety of assembled instruments included a sitar, a penny whistle, a few accordions, a Celtic and a Mexican harp, an African kalimba and a Chinese dizi. |
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It's even more ironic that Stephens would harp on Khaled Jaber's name given that his own family name is itself an adopted one. |
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Inside the car, the hundred megaton speakers may be transmitting the unique sound of some howling pop star with an ululating mouth harp and a back-up band, heavy on drums. |
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They might choose to play the guitar, recorder, saxophone, harp, drum, xylophone, violin, piano, banjo, symbols or the triangle or any other instrument of varied origins. |
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They often harp on the indiscretion, such as an affair, and not the larger picture. |
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Later, McChrystal asked Metcalf for an orchestration, first for strings, and then for strings and harp, which is the version McChrystal played here. |
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It is a joy to hear such weightless, fluently articulated harp playing. |
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At one moment, the harp sounds like a fine-tuned guitar, at another it's like an enhanced electric wind instrument, with beautiful fluctuations, transitions and crescendos. |
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Frank once had me cut a piece of foam out and mount a Pignose amp on the harp of a Bosendorfer grand piano, pointing down to the soundboard in the piano. |
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This increase is probably not solely the result of increased organizational effort, but may represent part of a larger-scale southward shift in the winter range of harp seals. |
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Volumes of harp airs also began to appear, published in London. |
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Ryan and his band whip up an infectious jam session blending acoustic guitar, electrified slide guitar, djembe drums, stomp box, blues harp and acoustic bass. |
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In the north Atlantic, harp seals and hooded seals, both ice-breeding species, already migrate to the ice edge in summer and currently form a part of the polar bear's diet. |
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Feldman scored it for an ensemble consisting of doubled woodwind quartet, brass septet, string quartet, and a trio of harp, piano, and vibraphone. |
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She seemed totally unconcerned as she stepped forward, draped her cloak near the fire, and unslung the small harp case she'd worn on her back beneath it. |
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He makes the harp sing modally, although he continually changes the modes. |
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An Aeolian harp is usually constructed as a rectangular sound box. |
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Some of the Jaufre Rudel pieces are unaccompanied too, but even those in which the psaltery or harp make an appearance use these instruments most sparingly. |
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It sounds like odd moments of Berlioz, Tchaikovsky or Ravel, but only in respect of isolated chords here and there, a harp glissando upbeat, a stretto passage for the violins. |
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Wind shrieked through the rigging as the mast groaned under the strain of its huge triangular sail that drove the vessel before the wind, its rigging taught as harp strings. |
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The four verses have been set to the music of an ancient harp. |
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I never yet could make out why Saul threw a javelin at David, but if that was the tune he played on his harp I can understand it, and justify it as well. |
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Through March 2012, harp was only permitted to refinance mortgages that were up to 125 percent of the value of a home. |
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I've been harping on this theme for nearly a decade now, and now it's time to harp again. |
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The Aeolian Harp took its fundamental form from the traditional wind harp, an instrument that plays ethereal, random music as wind currents move over and vibrate its strings. |
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A common form is have a harp melody written down or a well known tune, while the vocalist improvises their own harmony while singing a poem. |
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But that's just one of many offerings, ranging from panpipe to harp to brass. |
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Ceri then reverted back to the harp to play, and sing some Cerdd Dant or penillion in the South Wales tradition. |
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Period-correct harp lights and double-hung windows helped to create an interior cityscape of Brady Street. |
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Using my Swarovski EL binoculars, I thought I saw a big harp seal head about a mile away. |
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In many countries, opposition to the annual Arctic harp seal hunt has resulted in bans and restrictions on the practice. |
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Act three is all about Greenpeace and efforts by Captain Paul Watson to save whales and baby harp seals, as told by Van Jones. |
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Canada's East Coast seal hunt is the largest in the world, killing an average of 300,000 harp seals annually. |
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The time has now come for the Canadian government to follow suit and end their cruel hunt for harp seals once and for all. |
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Frustratingly, an explosion of fish-gorging harp seals in eastern Canada has reduced further the cod population. |
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A third of a million harp and hooded seals are clubbed to death each year in Canada. |
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And in 1997, the Canadian government banned the killing of both white coat and young harp and hooded seals. |
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In 1998, she was able to persuade French harp builder Joel Garnier to create an electronic instrument she could strap on, plug in, and wear. |
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The concert will also feature French harp music performed by Gabriella Dall'Olio and Debussy's trio for harp, viola and flute. |
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Fellow agents include harp seal demolitions expert Short Fuse, snowy owl intelligence analyst Eva and plucky polar bear Corporal. |
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Most harpists back then played cross harp, sucking in on the notes to bend and bluesify them. |
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At its most extreme it is reminiscent of the boinging and buzzing of a Jew's harp. |
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The fairy queen of the freak-folk movement, Ms. Newsom uses a harp and her froggish little voice to spin elaborate, beguiling fantasies. |
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A crown was not part of the arms but use of a crowned harp was apparently common as a badge or as a device. |
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The difference between the arms and device of Ireland appears to be on the crown only, which is added to the harp when used as a device. |
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Some years ago there was a demand from Irish quarters that the blue ground of the golden harp on the royal standard should be changed to green. |
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The harp symbol is used extensively by the state to mark official documents, Irish coinage and on the seal of the President of Ireland. |
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The coat of arms of Ireland features a gold harp with silver strings on a blue background, which dates from the 13th century. |
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The instrument most commonly associated with Wales is the harp, which is generally considered to be the country's national instrument. |
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This manuscript contains the earliest body of harp music from anywhere in Europe and is one of the key sources of early Welsh music. |
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The Celtic harp, seen on Irish coinage and used in Guinness advertising, was played as long ago as the 10th century. |
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By the early 19th century, the Irish harp and its music were for all intents and purposes dead. |
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However, the harp continues to occupy a place on the fringe of Irish traditional music. |
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Flag Book of 1686, which belonged to Samuel Pepys, gives the flag of Ireland as the harp and St George's cross on a green field. |
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The arms of Ireland since the sixteenth century have been a gold harp with silver strings on a blue field. |
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Often accompanying themselves on the harp, they can also be seen in records of the Scottish courts throughout the medieval period. |
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The harp quarter of the Royal Arms represents Ireland on both the English and Scottish versions. |
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The harp was regarded as the national instrument until it was replaced with the Highland bagpipes in the 15th century. |
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The earliest Irish word for a harp is in fact Cruit, a word which strongly suggests a Pictish provenance for the instrument. |
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The playing of this Gaelic harp with wire strings died out in Scotland in the 18th century and in Ireland in the early 19th century. |
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The new instruments had gut strings, and their construction and playing style was based on the larger orchestral pedal harp. |
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The 1931 formation of the Clarsach Society kickstarted the modern harp renaissance. |
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Recent harp players include Savourna Stevenson, Maggie MacInnes, and the band Sileas. |
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The Celtic harp is a triangular harp traditional to Brittany, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. |
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Ireland uses and delights in two instruments only, the harp namely, and the tympanum. |
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This harp also had a reinforced curved pillar and a substantial neck, flanked with thick brass cheek bands. |
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In the early 19th century, even as the old Gaelic harp tradition was dying out, a new harp was invented in Ireland. |
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It had gut strings and semitone mechanisms like an orchestral pedal harp, and was invented by Dublin pedal harp maker John Egan. |
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In the 1890s a similar new harp was also developed in Scotland as part of a Gaelic cultural revival. |
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Among them, Alan Stivell highly contributed to popularise the Celtic harp and Breton music in the world. |
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The Welsh triple harp today is found mainly among players of traditional Welsh folk music. |
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The triple harp was quickly adopted by the Welsh harpers living in London during the 17th century. |
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From medieval times Welsh harpists played with the harp placed on the left shoulder, contrary to continental practice. |
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After the early 20th century, triple harps were almost completely abandoned in Wales in favour of the modern pedal harp. |
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Subsequently, Nansi Richards was the harp teacher of the brothers Dafydd and Gwyndaf Roberts. |
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The pure white fur of harp seal pups conceals them in their Arctic environment. |
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Some of these species are serially monogamous, including the harp seal, crabeater seal and hooded seal. |
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Exploited species included harp seals, hooded seals, Caspian seals, elephant seals, walruses and all species of fur seal. |
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The harp seal population is found in three separate populations, each of which uses a specific breeding site. |
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In 2006, 325,000 harp seals, as well as 10,000 hooded seals and 10,400 grey seals were killed. |
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It is a major breeding ground of harp seal and hooded seal that has been used for seal hunting for more than 200 years. |
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It is a major breeding ground for seals, including harp seal, hooded seal and gray seal. |
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The music of Paraguay, which consists of lilting polkas, bouncy galopas, and languid guaranias is played on the native harp. |
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Spaniards introduced new instruments, such as the guitar and the harp, which led to the development of crossbred instruments like the charango. |
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Zwingli enjoyed music and could play several instruments, including the violin, harp, flute, dulcimer and hunting horn. |
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Audiences can expect an evening of glamour, elegant evening wear, sassy ad-lib chat and harp music from Handel to Bernstein. |
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David, a reputed harp player and psalmist, becomes Saul's armor-bearer and official soother. |
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This year's finalists play violin, cello, oboe, clarinet, flute, baritone horn, harp, piano or guitar. |
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They also contain an abundance of harp and juvenile ringed seals indicative of spring sealing, and summer migrants dominate among the birds. |
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Soprano Clare Norburn is supported by an exotic instrumental ensemble featuring recorders, shawms, fiddle, oud, saz, harp and percussion. |
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Later he started playing classical guitar and then the harp. |
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Maudlin country treats wrapped in spooky woodwind, ghostly mouth harp and wheezing harmonium? |
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Misericordia are a four-piece ensemble who use medieval instruments such as hurdy gurdy, bagpipes, gothic harp, citole, recorders and voices. |
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Submarine gurglings gradually surface, birdsong chirps, piano and harp snuggle nocturnally as we move towards a magical ending. |
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Kavan Donohue will be showing off his guitar skills and is also well-known for his uilleann pipe and harp work. |
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Bell also thought that multiple metal reeds tuned to different frequencies like a harp would be able to convert the undulating currents back into sound. |
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Cerdd Dant is a unique tradition of singing lyrics over a harp melody. |
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The triple harp is also played by a minority of classical harpists in Wales, including Angharad Evans, Elinor Bennett, Meinir Heulyn and Eleri Darkins. |
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Today's leading exponent of the triple harp include Robin Huw Bowen, who was influenced by the music of Ar Log to the extent that he switched to the triple harp. |
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The poetry was very often sung to the accompaniment of the harp. |
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This type of harp is also unique amongst single row triangular harps in that the first two strings tuned in the middle of the gamut were set to the same pitch. |
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Gerald refers to the cythara and the tympanum, but their identification with the harp is uncertain, and it is not known that he ever visited Scotland. |
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The early history of the triangular frame harp in Europe is contested. |
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The third quadrant, displaying the gold harp of Ireland, remains unaltered from that version used throughout the remainder of the United Kingdom and overseas. |
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The inclusion of the harp remains an issue for some in Ireland. |
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Acclaimed harpist Lavinia Meijer in 2012 released an album with works from Philip Glass that she transcribed for harp, with approval of Glass himself. |
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Music at Highland games gatherings also includes other forms, such as fiddling, harp circles and Celtic bands, usually spiced with a large amount of bagpipe music. |
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Shock and Penguins of battle Dr Fellow agents include harp seal demolitions expert Short Fuse, snowy owl intelligence analyst Eva and plucky polar bear Corporal. |
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To kick-start the appeal the French harp manufacturers, Les Harpes Camac, have offered to match sponsorship towards buying any harp from their catalogue. |
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To the strains of plinky plonky harp music, her fingertips hovered a centimetre or two above my face, occasionally coming into land for a light prod. |
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In April Woodford and his crew killed about 1,200 harp seals over 10 days in an annual hunt that usually accounts for about a third of his yearly income. |
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Rather than try to obfuscate, Zelko would be better served explaining why Greenpeace had insisted that the harp seal was on the road to extinction. |
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The robot, which is modelled on a baby harp seal, is covered with soft artificial fur to make people feel comfortable, as if they are touching a real animal. |
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The piquant mixture of strings, celeste and harp captured Ravel's faux-oriental harmonies and in Beauty and the Beast the latter galumphed menacingly. |
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The harp and crown cap badge is likely to stay in modified form. |
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The CBSO Youth Chorus's girls, accompanied by harp, sang winningly in Holst's third set of Choral Hymns from Rig Veda making their conductor Julian Wilkins justifiably proud. |
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The Goldberg Variations appear regularly on harpsichord and piano, but recently I have heard them played on organ, harp and even a pair of cimbaloms. |
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A huge mix of music is on offer from the experimental jazz of Magic Science Quartet to traditional bowed harp or sarangi instruments of Louise Landes Levi. |
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Renouf has excavated huge amounts of harp seal bones at Port au Choix, indicating that this place was a prime location for the hunting of these animals. |
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The fishing industry is relatively small, mostly targeting harp seal, ringed seal, herring, saffron cod, European smelt, Atlantic cod and Atlantic salmon. |
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The import and sale is still banned even though the Marine Animal Response Society estimates the harp seal population is thriving at approximately 8 million. |
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In the meantime, if anyone needs a stringless harp, look him up. |
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I could gaze at two chitarrones one of two harpsichords, a harp. |
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The seals are the ringed seal, the harp seal and the grey seal. |
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Celticism came to be associated with the bagpipe and the harp. |
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Many harp seals are able to live up to 30 years in the wild. |
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Other large animals of the sea are hooded and harp seals and squid. |
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The national flag of Ireland exhibits the harp in a field vert. |
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Music discoursed on that melodious instrument, a Jew's harp, keeps the elfin women away from the hunter, because the tongue of the instrument is of steel. |
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Harp arpeggios, ambient sounds, a typewriter and speech establish the mood. |
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From classical piano at an early age, her interests developed through studies in Celtic Harp and percussion. |
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There is a mystery about the Aeolian Harp that still has physicists arguing. |
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A long time later found Harp lying down in a downy bed with soft, white sheets. |
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Tuition is available in all instruments, cello and Irish Harp now available, choir and orchestra, from 4 year olds to adults. |
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I knew drink was dear in the South but 80 euro for a pint of Harp is a bit much. |
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Organised by Ballina Parish Choir, this event will feature a wealth of local talent and special guests, Janet Harbison and members of the National Harp Orchestra. |
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On a couple of occasions there's such an outbreak of concerted strumming, it's as though the stage has been invaded by Andrew Lawrence-King's Harp Consort. |
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Harp did not let the horse slow its pace until well near nightfall. |
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I felt the warmth of the Arctic sun on a calm summer's day, the smooth hide of a newly skinned Harp seal, and the insulating fur of the Polar bear. |
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The cheerful Harp seal pup is not the only wild animal happy to be snapped in his winter wonderland. |
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Harp seals prefer to swim in the ocean, spending relatively little time on land. |
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Cantre'r Gwaelod is central to the setting of the 1977 Newbery Honor Book A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond. |
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Harp continued to find receivers open and the Eagles added several meanless touchdowns in the last half of the game. |
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The children's book author will be introducing children and grown-ups alike to Wendy and her adventures from the book A Harp Seal Named Wendy. |
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Greek stringed instruments included the Chelys Lyre, Kithara, Barbitos, Phorminx, Thracian Kithara, and Harp. |
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November's report showed that HARP refinances accounted for 68 percent of total refinances in Nevada, nearly triple the 23 percent share of refinances nationally. |
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The first recorded attempt at racing greyhounds on a straight track was made beside the Welsh Harp reservoir, Hendon, England, in 1876, but this experiment did not develop. |
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Harp seals combine anatomical and behavioural approaches to managing their body temperatures, instead of elevating their metabolic rate and energy requirements. |
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Hail Son of God, Savior of Men, thy Name Shall be the copious matter of my Song Henceforth, and never shall my Harp thy praise Forget, nor from thy Father's praise disjoin. |
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