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The Clarsach Revival (the clarsach in scotland (origins (ancient lyre…

- - - - triangular harp
      - stone carvings
        
        early 9th century
        
        sizes and strings
        
        impressionistic
        
        players/context
  - - - Classical Greece
      - used interchangably
        
        now strings away from soundboard
    - - anywhere with strung bow
      - climate and availability of materials
  - - - pictish -> gaidhealtachd
      - smaller, sturdier instrument
    - - elite group, increasingly itinerant
      - mid 18th century clarsach fell out of use
      - gradual disappearance of patronage
      - collapse of clan system
      - changes in musical fashion
  - - - more rapid collapse in Scotland
- - - - newspaper adverts
        
        literate musicians
        
        ten turned up - continuity
        
        nothing like this in Scotland
      - still used by players today
    - - irish bard and harper
        
        last great traditional harper and composer
      - mixed genres
        
        traditional with art music
        
        wider tradition/original?
      - over 200 tunes said to be composed by him
        
        helped form basis of later revival
    - - new instrument inspired by clarsach
        
        gut-strung, semi-tone levers
        
        imitate range of classical pedal harp
      - John Egan
        
        heavily marketed to aristocratic ladies
  - - - aware of egan system
      - 1892 National Mod
        
        competition
        
        best gaelic song with self-accompaniment on the clarsach
        
        edinburgh bagpipers Glen
        
        only 2 entries - instrumental accessibility
      - second competition 1902
        
        gaelic airs on the clarsach
        
        didn't take off
        
        abandoned 1909
    - - clarsach in 1914
      - family name well established
      - travelled
        
        troops in WWI
        
        european capitals and north america
        
        international dimension
        
        renews interest in scotland
        
        competition restored 1922
  - - - establishment 1931
      - carry on from Egan's marketing
        
        taken time to translate to Scottish context
        
        ideology - polite society membership
    - - until 70s and 80s
        
        politics - conservative vs liberal
        
        Alain Stivell
        
        ireland and wales followed
- - - - oral tradition and absorption
      - Simon Chadwick - identified music
      - piobaireachds
  - - - context of wider range of instruments
      - Kinnaird and Heyman
    - - nms recitals
      - marriage of history and music