10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JEW'S-HARP»
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jew's-harp in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Jew's
Harp: A Comprehensive Anthology
This collection represents the first complete study of the Jew's harp -- its history, use, playing techniques, and manufacture -- richly supplemented with biographies of virtuosi of the instrument, a geo-linguistic survey of terms, data on ...
2
Jew's harps in European archaeology
This compilation - which is appended to the thesis as the Catalogue - is itself a major part of the work, connected as it is to the main aim of documenting the finds and thus contributing to an understanding of the early period of the jew's ...
3
Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest: Being an ...
theory of the Guimbarde, or Jew's harp, can be well understood. Note 49, p. 300.
— The jew's harp. The Memoires of Madame de Genlis first made known the
astonishing powers of a poor German soldier on the Jew's harp. This musician
was ...
4
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction: ...
m)t ^elector, ' AtJD LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS. THE JEW'S HARP.
The memoirs of Madame de Oenlis first made known the astonishing powers of a
poor German soldier on the Jew's harp. This musician was in the service of ...
This musician was in the service of Frederick the Great, and finding himself one
night on duty under the windows of the king, played the Jew's harp with so much
skill, that Frederick, who was a great amateur of music, thought he heard a ...
John Scott, John Taylor, 1827
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World of a Slave: Encyclopedia of the Material Life of ...
The ''Jew's harp'' is an English term, and it became the name most commonly
used in America. Globally, more than 1,000 names are used for this instrument. ''
Jew's harp'' first appeared in English in 1595, in editions of Richard Hakluyt's ...
KYM RICE, Martha B. Katz-Hyman
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Where Rivers and Mountains Sing: Sound, Music, and Nomadism ...
Among both the Altai and Tuvans, a typical social context for the resyn- thesis of
speech sounds on the jew's harp involves courtship. For example, a young man
approaches his girlfriend's yurt and, standing at some distance, but close enough
...
Theodore Craig Levin, 2006
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A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine
He was 48 years rector of •the parish, and his name appears in the list of
benefactors to it. Youre, &c. 1786, May. D.N. CIV. On the Antiquity and Name of
the Jew'i Harp. Mr. Urban, THE Jew-trump, or Jew's-harp, as it is often called, (
and indeed ...
There may be more mystery in a Jew's Harp than a hand-organ, notwithstanding
their relative dimensions. Think of a man's playing concertos on the engine which
' Skinner in his Etymologicon Lingua: Anglica: calls " Cythara Judaeorum,'" and ...
Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring, John Stuart Mill, 1834
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The Select Journal of Foreign Periodical Literature
There may be more mystery in a Jew's Harp than a hand-organ, notwithstanding
their relative dimensions. Think of a man's playing concertos on the engine which
"Skinner in his Etymologicon Lingua Anglicce calls ' Cythara Judaeorum,' and ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «JEW'S-HARP»
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jew's-harp is used in the context of the following news items.
Art of the gumleaf: Gumbaynggirr elder Roseina Boston turns 80
Of the Aboriginal singing and dancing that ensued, Hodgkinson praised a sweet-sounding instrument that he compared to a jew's-harp. «The Conversation AU, Mar 15»
METALLICA's 'One' Gets Medieval Folk Treatment By Belarusian …
... husli (psaltery), svirel (pipe), drymba (jew's-harp), akaryna (ocarina), surma (trumpet), bierascianaja truba (birch bark trumpet), hudok (rebec) ... «BLABBERMOUTH.NET, Nov 14»
Vargan, the Russian Jew's-harp
The Russian name of this reed instrument originated from the Old Slavic “Varga”, which meant the mouth, lips. In different parts of the world one ... «Russia-InfoCenter, Jul 09»
