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Irish Traditional Music |
 | | Traditional music comprises two broad categories; instrumental music, which is mostly dance music (reels, jigs, hornpipes, polkas and the like), and the song tradition, which is mostly unaccompanied solo singing. |
 | | There is a general feel to this music which distinguishes it from the traditional music of, say, Scotland, or the Eastern United States. |
 | | Traditional music has always drawn on many influences and sources: for example, the ballroom schottisches and polkas of polite 19th-century society, English music-hall songs, Scottish bagpipe music, and even the music of visiting flface minstrel troupes. |
| www.irelandseye.com /aarticles/culture/music/traditional/tm.shtm (400 words) |
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