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More naturally attuned to the harp's evocative qualities were Faure's richly colored "Une Chatelaine en sa Tour" which achieved a dreamlike aura in this fine young player's hands, a pair of sensitively scored contemporary pieces - David Bruce's "Caja de Musica" and Kati Agocs's "Every Lover Is a Warrior" - and the centerpiece of the program, Britten's 1969 Suite for Harp in C.

Harpist Bridget Kibbey creates an air of enchantment at Phillips 2011

The first two lack meaningful engagement between soloist and orchestra despite a sprinkling of quarter-tones and, in the slow second movement, the flute and harp's echoing of the sitar.

LPO/Murphy 2010

The harp's tuning key, hung from its own hook, is a likely reference to the Franciscan tau as well as an alphamnemonic for the letter "T" (fig. 6.16).

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

For I had no consciousness of moving, and yet I felt the softness of the strands, the cool silk of brown and the springing vibrancy of silver, heard the hairs chime softly past each other, a rustle of notes cascading like a harp's.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

From the outset the heavens had this in mind, a passage through darkness and suspect country, its vanishing point in sunlight in the air and the earth's horizons - not drowning, nor the harp's flood.

Dragons Of Summer Flame Weis, Margaret 1995

Alaire grabbed the harp's canvas bag with one hand and Kai's arm with the other and led him through the press of bodies to the front exit.

Prison Of Souls Lackey, Mercedes 1993

When Alaire opened his eyes, he found himself and Kai enveloped in a cloud of bright stars, points of light that were pulsating with the harp's music.

Prison Of Souls Lackey, Mercedes 1993

He ran his fingers down his harp's strings, adjusting one or two of the tuning pegs with the brass key that hung from a Ieather thong about his neck.

Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990

The stars on the harp's face, enigmatic, answerless, met his gaze.

Harpist in the Wind McKillip, Patricia A. 1979

Immediate little bubbles slide up its bright flanks, up brown wood surfaces, some varnished some lip-worn, these fine silver seeds stripping loose along the harp's descent toward stone-white cervix and into lower night ....

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978