Irish Styles of Music - Irish Dance, Irish Folk Music, Donegal Fiddle Tradition, Reel, Uilleann Pipes, Riverdance, Folk Music of Ireland (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 72. Chapters: Irish dance, Irish folk music, Donegal fiddle tradition, Reel, Uilleann pipes, Riverdance, Folk music of Ireland, List of Irish ballads, The Pirate Queen, Irish stepdance, Ceilidh, Irish rebel music, Clare Lancers Set, Sean-nos song, Feis, Celtic Tiger Live, Garryowen, Sean-nos dance, Sean-nos dance in America, Lord of the Dance, Feet of Flames, Hornpipe, Irish Modern Dance Theatre, American traditional informal freeform solo folk dancing, Irish rock, South Galway Set, Oireachtas, Cape Breton fiddling, Irish flute, The Voice of the People, Ceili dance, Set dancing, Dancing on Dangerous Ground, Ghillies, Cunnla, Philadelphia Ceili Group, Na Piobairi Uilleann, American Wake, The Permanent Cure, Cearbhall Og O Dalaigh, Lilting, Willie Clancy Summer School, Step dance, Peigin Leitir Moir, Folk Music Society of Ireland, Whistle on the Wind, Scoil Gheimhridh Frankie Kennedy, Einini, Queen Maeve International Summer School, Spirit of the Dance, Traditional Irish singing, Irish fiddle playing, Cosa Meara Company of Irish Dance, Frederick Celtic Festival, Toss the Feathers, Scoil Eigse, Feis Ceoil, Country and Irish, Sean Nos, Cumann Rince Naisiunta, World Irish Dance Association, Clicks. Excerpt: The folk music of Ireland (also known as Irish traditional music, Irish trad, Irish folk music, and other variants) is the generic term for music that has been created in various genres on the entire island of Ireland, north and south of the border. In Topographia Hibernica (1188), Gerald de Barri conceded that the Irish were more skilled at playing music than any other nation he had seen. He claimed that the two main instruments used at this time were the "harp" and "tabor" (see bodhran), that their music was fast and lively, and that their songs always began and ended with B-flat. In A History of Irish Music (1905), W. H. Grattan...