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Trace the evolution of the harp from early times to today’s concert grand harp. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of each kind of harp. Please point out how innovations in harp construction affected harp repertoire and mention specific pieces being sure to mention the kind of harp for which they were composed.

Write a few sentences about at least five of these topics and how they relate to the harp: a. Conservatore de Paris b. Susann McDonalid c. Transcriptions d. Yolanda Kondonassis e. Vera Dulova f. American Harp Society g. Cross-strung chromatic harp

The questions below refer to the chemical that you researched last week. Which chemical did you research? What is the common name? What is one use or place it is found? What is an interesting fact? Why do you this fact is interesting?  

List an advantage of using stainless steel.

In the summer of 1781, this British General moved his army to Yorktown, Virginia. Sensing an opportunity, a combined French and American force of sixteen thousand men swarmed the peninsula in September 1781.  In October 1781, the American forces began the battle for Yorktown, and after a siege that lasted eight days, the British capitulated on October 19. Who was this British General?

A notable slave uprising took place in South Carolina in September 1739. A literate Angolan led a large group of captive Africans in an armed insurrection against White colonists. The militia suppressed the rebellion after a battle in which both enslaved people and militiamen were killed, and the remaining rebels were executed or sold to enslavers in the West Indies.

During the winter of 1777–1778, the British occupied Philadephia while Washington’s army camped at this spot in Pennsylvania. Washington’s winter was a low point for the American forces. A lack of supplies weakened the men, and disease took a heavy toll. Amid the cold, hunger, and sickness, soldiers deserted in droves.

A confrontation between a crowd of Bostonians and British soldiers on March 5, 1770, resulted in the deaths of five people, including Crispus Attucks, the first official casualty in the war for independence

The laxness with which the English crown enforced the Navigation Acts in the eighteenth century

This Act (1764) lowered duties on British molasses by half, from six pence per gallon to three. Grenville designed this measure to address the problem of rampant colonial smuggling with the French sugar islands in the West Indies.