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Harps
Print Harps Reading Comprehension with Sixth Grade Work

Print Harps Reading Comprehension

Reading Level
     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 6 to 7
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   5.33

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    clarsachs, doppia, harpa, multi-course, standing, inventive, best, status, maintain, social, skillful, highly, design, formerly, affected, warrior
     content words:    In Wales, In Scotland, In Ireland, In Spain, Robin Huw Bowen

Harps
By Mary Lynn Bushong 		  
1     When you think of harps, what else comes to mind? Angels? Soft music like falling water droplets? A large instrument on a stage with an orchestra? You could think of all these things and many more.
 
2     Harps are one of the oldest instruments for making music. Pictures of harps on clay tablets date back to 2800 BC in Iraq. The people of ancient Egypt were great harpers. They made many different styles. They were usually arched or L-shaped, with the front side open. Some were tall enough to be played while standing up. Others were played while kneeling on the ground. It is thought that because the strings were so long, they probably played lower notes.
 
3     The arched harp was the only stringed instrument in early Egypt. It stayed popular as other stringed instruments were invented. Harps were still used when the Greeks and Romans rose to power, a period of more than 2,000 years later!
 
4     The Celts [Keltz] were a warrior culture, but they also loved music and art. They were highly inventive people. The harp was used by them from their early years. Their design was a little different from the ones used in Egypt. Instead of having one open side, there was a pillar or wooden piece that completed the third (formerly open side) of the triangle shape.

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