Irish music
Jig, Reel, characteristics, origins, steps and instruments
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- Created on: 02-02-15 18:19
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- Irish music
- Reel
- Quaver movement
- 2 or 3 tunes grouped and repeated brfore new tune
- Fats, in 2/4 or split common time
- Jig
- Fast, compound time (6/8)
- double, single or slip jig
- Jumping steps
- Origins
- Oral tradition - memorised and then passed on
- Folk dance
- Performance dance- to audience, possible to do solo
- Social dances- Celii dances - social gatherings
- Common musical characteristics
- Melodies often 8 bars
- Tunes often divided into two 8 bar phrases (strains)
- First strain on right foot, second strain on left
- Melodies decorated with ornaments (grace notes, turns, pitchbends)
- Often uses modes (type of folk scales)
- Chords often miss 3rd- drone like feel
- Hetrophonic texture, instruments play different versions of melody at same time
- Instruments
- Tin whistle
- Bhodran - hand held frame drum
- Flute (usually wooden)
- Fiddle/violoin
- Harp
- Uillean pipes (sweet sounding)
- Steps
- Stiff upper body, rapid leg movements
- Some uses soft shoes, some use hard
- Often dancers stand in a line
- Reel
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