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Jan 17, 2024 · The traditional music played by the Irish came to the country with the Celts 2,000 years ago. The Celts were influenced by the music of the East, and it’s believed that the traditional Irish ...
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The Great Irish Famine (1845–1852), which provided the...
- WATCH: Ireland's Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann on TG4 - IrishCentral
Aug 24, 2022 · The Great Irish Famine (1845–1852), which provided the context for Petrie’s observation, had a devastating impact on the topography of Irish traditional music, as well as the music makers who ...
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Irish dance music is isometric and is built around patterns of bar-long melodic phrases akin to call and response.A common pattern is A Phrase, B Phrase, A Phrase, Partial Resolution, A Phrase, B Phrase, A Phrase, Final Resolution, though this is not universal; mazurkas, for example, tend to feature a C Phrase instead of a repeated A Phrase before the Partial and Final Resolutions, for example.
Irish traditional music is all of the following things: a Connemara parent soothing a child with an old lullaby, and an urchin bawling out a ballad for loose change on a city street. It is a Dublin piper dazzling his hearers with complexity and a Clare fiddler dazzling his audience with subtlety and nuance. It is The Chieftains playing for an ...
The Afro-Celt Sound System achieved fame adding West African influences and electronic dance rhythms in the 1990s while bands such as Kíla fuse traditional Irish with rock and world music representing the Irish tradition at world music festivals across Europe and America. The most notable fusion band in Ireland was Horslips, who combined Irish themes and music with heavy rock.
Irish Traditional Music is characterized by its approach to phrasing and variation, which helps the tune transcend the simplicity of the regular 4-bar structure. Phrasing is a central part of the aesthetics of the music and also reflects the personal styles and regional influences of the musicians.
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The Celts 500BC. • Traditional Irish music, as we now know it, has a complicated history. It was no doubt influenced by the aristocratic music paid for and patronized by the old Gaelic aristocracy that ruled Ireland until the 1600’s. • The Celts arrived in Ireland circa 500BC and become the dominant cultural force on the island very quickly.