2. .
Amergin,the 1st Bard of Irelandwho as part of the invasion of the
Celts in 1-2nd century BC
The Song of Amergin1st song about Ireland
3. Celtic society
Celtic cultures, the Bard/Filidh/Ollave was inviolate, travel
freely throughout
Ireland
The Celts were fascinated by the power of words. Every noble or
high family maintained their own ancestral poets. " It is from
these poets, who maintained an oral tradition
4. Six Nations of the Gael
Scotland
Ireland
Wales
Cornwall
Brittany
5. APPALACHIA
6. ROOTS
Ethnomusicology is the study of people's music, and more
specifically, the study of the relationship between music and
culture
Depending upon the source, 40 to 60 percent of the settlers who
nested into the Appalachian region were of Ulster-Scots descent, by
far the largest ethnic group to call Appalachia home
Celtic Music influencedAppalachian /bluegrass musicwhich combined
with African influencesbegat blues and country
7. Roots
8. Nova Scotiaand Cape Breton
in the 19th century the Irish Great Hunger and Scottish Highland
Clearances resulted in large influxes of migrants with Celtic
cultural roots, which helped to define the dominantly celtic
character of Cape Breton and the north mainland of the
province
9. Evolution
Court musicians
Fall of the Gaelic Chieftains 1607
Subsequent rebellions
Norman 1166
Created sense of yearning for independence
10. Aisling Images
11. Rebel Songs
1601Battle of Kinsale and the Flight of the Earls
1641-53Wars of the Irish Confederacy
Including Oliver Cromwell
1798 United Irishman Rebellion
1800s Agrarian unrest/Fenians
1916 Easter Rebellion
1919-1922 War Of Independence
1922-1924Irish Civil War
12. Diasporas
13. Traditional Irish Music
Much of Irish traditional music is meant for dancing.
The tunes range from four-to-the-bar reels to various types of
jigs, which can be either sprightly or stately.
Most jigs are in 6/8, but there is an older style known as a slip
jig that circular construction in which two different strains of
eight bars are each played through twice, then the resulting
thirty-two bars are repeated fromthe top
14. Reels
Reel music is notated in duple time, either as 2/2 or 4/4.
In Irish dance, a reel is any dance danced to music in reel
time
15. Voice
The oral tradition was paramount among the Celtic peoples; no
written histories or laws, all were learned among the druidic
class
Sean-ns
old style") is a highly ornamented style of unaccompanied
traditional Irish singing
The tradition of sean-ns song was exclusively oral, and remains
customarily so
16. Instrumentation
uilleannpipesare the characteristic national bagpipe of Ireland.
obauilleann (literally, "pipes of the elbow"), from their method of
inflation. The bag of the uilleann pipes is inflated by means of a
small set of bellows strapped around the waist and the right
arm.
17. Irish Harp
18. percussion
The bodhrnis an Irish frame drum ranging from (10" to 26") in
diameter, with most drums measuring (14" to 18"). The sides of the
drum are (3" to 8") deep. A goatskin head is tacked to one
sideTheother side is open ended for one hand to be placed against
the inside of the drum head to control the pitch and timbre.
19. accordions
20. Whistle/flute
21. Fiddle
22. Influences
23. Irish Folk Music
24. The Clancy Brothers
25. Traditional music
26. The Chieftains
27. Hooley
