Selected Website Sources for Music, Books, Recordings, and General Information on Scottish Harp Music

http://www.afghanpress.com/ Afghan Press (Houston, Texas, USA) is a music publishing company exclusively devoted to harp music and publishes several folios of Scottish music.

http://www.briathra-amhran-ceol.scotnet.co.uk "Briatha-amhran-coel" is Scots Gaelic for "Words-Song-Music." This site uses Gaelic music to support the teaching and self-preservation of the Gaelic language. Several harp and fiddle books on the SHSA resource list are available, as well as new books on Gaelic song (Scottish, Irish, Pan-Celtic, and Cape Breton). The site is a little hard to navigate. Click on the Index button and then look under "Music Tutorials" in the last column to find "Scots" and "Harp".

http://www.clarsachsociety.co.uk/ The Clarsach Society promotes the gut-strung harp and has 11 branches throughout the United Kingdom. The Headquarters unit in Edinburgh operates a music sales service from which folios of music arranged by harp players Jean Campbell, Anne Macdearmid, Isobel Mieras, and others may be purchased. The Society organizes the Edinburgh International Harp Festival each spring.

http://clarsach.net/Wire_Branch/ Clarsach Society-affiliated site published by the Wire Branch of the Clarsach Society and edited by Bill Taylor. Focuses on the wire-strung Gaelic harp or clarsach. Contains "Editors Choice" annotated listings of CDs and books, many of which were included in this SHSA resource list.

http://www.college-of-piping.co.uk/ College of Piping in Glascow Scotland. Includes an on-line shop with pipe music and CDs, as well as books on Piobaireachd and Scottish history.

http://www.cranfordpub.com/ Cranford Publications. This publisher based in Cape Breton Island specializes in Celtic fiddle music from Cape Breton, Ireland, and Scotland. They create and distribute new and old books of music notation and related recordings. The website contains references to thousands of tunes in CDs and books available through them. Soundclips and on-screen music notation are available for hundreds of tunes.

http://www.feisean.org/ Fèis Rois, an organization dedicated to fostering Scottish Highland culture through tuition and performance of traditional music, song and dance. Fèis is a Gaelic word meaning festival. Described by Wendy Stewart as, "A prime mover in promoting Gaelic culture. Publisher of the two wonderful Ceol nam Feis books - essential material and source for further recordings and books."

http://www.fiddlerscrossing.com/Features a selection of print music and CDs for: Fiddle, Accordion, Recorder, Guitar, Flute, Piano, Pipes, Mountain Dulcimer, Hammered Dulcimer, Viola, Cello, Bass, Bodhran, penny whistle, Bouzouki, tenor banjo, Harp, Autoharp, harmonica, Dance, Instructional and so much more!. For Singers, we have a huge collection of Scottish and Irish songbooks and CDs in English and Gaelic.

http://www.folkrevolution.co.uk/books/historical.html Folk Revolution (Glasgow, Scotland) offers a large variety of Scottish music books, including most of the harp and historical tunebooks from Scottish presses that are listed on the SHSA resource site.

http://www.gaelicscottish.com/docs/g_music.htm Gaelic & Scottish Connections (Aberdeen, Scotland) exists to raise the profile of the Gaelic language and culture, by making available on their website a large archive of Gaelic and Scottish related material. This source offers a large variety of Scottish music books, including most of the harp and historical tunebooks from Scottish presses that are on the SHSA resource list.

http://www.greentrax.com/ - Greentrax Recordings (Edinburgh, Scotland) is a CD label specializing in traditional, contemporary and Gaelic music from Scotland.

http://www.lismor.co.uk/ Lismor Recordings (Glasgow, Scotland) is a CD label specializing in all forms of Scottish music.

http://www.lochroag.co.uk/ Loch Roag is the site for annual summer courses on Scottish harp by Alison Kinnaird and Wendy Stuart, Isle of Lewis.

http://www.lyonhealy.com/ Lyon & Healy Harps (Salt Lake City, Utah, and Chicago, Illinois, USA). Carries an extensive line of Lyon-Healy and Salvi and accessories and a large catalog of harp music.

http://www.folkharp.com/ Melody’s Traditional Music and Harp Shoppe (Houston, Texas, USA). Specializes in harps, printed harp music and CDs. Also, carries books about music and many collections of Scottish fiddle music.

http://www.musicscotland.com/ Music Scotland offers more than 3,000 Scottish, Irish, Celtic, Roots, Folk and World music CD titles direct from the Isle of Mull, Scotland.

http://www.musicascotica.org.uk/ Musica Scotica, a series of scholarly editions of early Scottish Music under the general editorship of Dr. Kenneth Elliott, Glasgow. Three volumes have been issued, including Sixteenth-Century Scots Songs for Voice and Lute (Elliot, ed.) which is listed in the section on "Sources of Tunes to Arrange Yourself." Many volumes that are in preparation are described on this site.

http://www.standingstones.com/ Webite of San Francisco Bay Area-based Celtic duo Standing Stones, composed of Michael Robinson and Vicki Parrish. They perform traditional music and song from Scotland and Ireland, and Canada and Australia, as well as early music. Their instruments are wire-strung harp, nylon-strung harp, fiddle, flute, guitar, mandola, banjo and accordion. The website contains an Encyclopedia of Traditional Celtic Music with entries on many topics of interest to the Scottish musician. Information is extracted from reference works by David Johnson, Henry George Farmer, Mary Anne Alburger, Kenneth Elliott & Frederick Rimmer, and George Emmerson.

http://www.harpcenter.com/ Sylvia Woods Harp Center (Glendale, California, USA). Specializes in harps, printed harp music and CDs.

http://www.scotlandsmusic.com/collections.htm Taigh na Teud (Isle of Skye, Scotland) publishers are the leading publishers of Scottish music books for fiddle, harp, pipes and many other traditional instruments. They also carry a fine selection of traditional song books and CDs. Established in 1985 by Christine Martin, a fiddler and clarsach player and a well-known teacher of both these instruments in the Highlands.

http://www.templerecords.com/ Temple Records (Temple, Midlothian, Scotland) is a CD label for traditional and contemporary Scottish music. The website offers a large selection of song books and CDs on Scottish and Irish traditional music for harp, bagpipe, fiddle, and Gaelic song.

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/scottskinner/index.shtml/ University of Aberdeen website allows free access to a collection of manuscript and printed music, letters, published texts, images, videos and archive audio excerpts on the famous Scottish Fiddler James Scott Skinner (18-43-1927). Materials archived include Skinner’s handwritten copies of The Harp & Claymore Collection (published 1904), excerpts from other collections of music, Skinner’s publications on Scottish dance, videos of dances as Skinner taught them, and audio excerpts of Skinner recordings.

http://www.valkyriepub.com Gaelic songs for the harp