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	Music of Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Though solo performance is preferred in the folk tradition, bands or at least small ensembles have probably always been a part of Irish music since at least the mid-19th century, although this is a point of much contention among ethnomusicologists.
		Irish traditional music was largely meant (to the best of our current knowledge) for dancing at celebrations for weddings, saint's days or other observances.
		The best-known regional fiddling traditions are from Donegal, Sligo, Sliabh Luachra and Clare.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irish_traditional_music (4745 words)

	Music of Ireland
		Music and lyrics are passed aurally/orally, and were rarely written down until recently (depending upon your definition of "recently", there are many examples of written music previous to the 1800's).
		Though solo performance is preferred in the folk tradition, bands or at least small ensembles have probably always been a part of Irish music since at least the mid-1800's, although this is a point of much contention among ethnomusicologists.
		Traditional music, especially sean nós, played a major part in Irish popular music later in the century, with Van Morrison, Hothouse Flowers and Sinead O'Connor using traditional elements in popular songs.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/m/mu/music_of_ireland.html (1897 words)

	Irish traditional music session - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Irish traditional music sessions are informal gatherings at which people play or sing Irish traditional music.
		The objective in a session is not to provide music for an audience of passive listeners, but in pub sessions, the punters (non-playing attendees) often come for the express purpose of listening, and the music is for the musicians themselves.
		The sessions are a key aspect of traditional music; some say it is the main sphere in which the music is formulated and innovated.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irish_traditional_music_session (400 words)

	Irish Traditional Music
		The factors that shape the tradition are: (i) continuity which links the present with the past; (ii) variation which springs from the individual or the group; (iii) selection by the community, which determines the form or forms in which the music survives.
		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.
		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)

	Fiddling in Feakle: Irish music is cool in Clare - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Irish traditional music, with its hint of American country-western and links to the music of Scotland and Brittany, has gone through periods of being out of favor, even disdained.
		Thanks in part to the enormous success of Irish dance extravaganzas like "Riverdance" and "Lord of the Dance," which have been seen by tens of millions of spectators, Irish traditional music, or trad music, is enjoying a renaissance.
		"Irish music is no longer something that just happens in Ireland, it's not even something the Irish own, no more than the Jamaicans own reggae," said Martin Hayes, born into a family of musicians in Feakle and now one of the world's top interpreters and innovators of the Irish fiddle.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/08/18/fiddling_in_feakle_irish_music_is_cool_in_clare (687 words)

	Irish traditional music
		Irish traditional music is the traditional or folk music of the Irish people as well as of the Irish diaspora.
		Irish traditional music as it is known today is the result of a centuries-old tradition of melodically-rich dance music and song.
		This music can be sorted into a wide variety of dance tune types, such the reel, the jig of various kinds, hornpipes[?], set dances[?], polkas, slides[?], highlands (also called "flings" and "schottisches[?]"), barndances[?], waltzes, and mazurkas.
	www.fastload.org /ir/Irish_traditional_music.html (643 words)

	Irish Traditional Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Folk music is music which belongs to a particular group of people or community.
		It is music which has been learnt orally, one person listening to another singing and learning the song, not from a book, but by listening many times until he knows the song.
		The music and songs describe their feelings about local happeninfs; love, war, work, sorrow, while the dance music tells us of the light-hearted fun and enjoyment they had in the evenings after their day's work was done.
	www.portglenone-cce.fsnet.co.uk /irish_trad_music.html (963 words)

	A Traditional Music Library of folk music, tune-books, songbooks and sheet music
		The traditional music here is split into 22 different songbooks or tune-books, each dedicated to a particular type of traditional folk or roots music.
		With old-time, the emphasis is much more on tunes and dance music, and often a deliberate effort is made to perform the music in the same way as it might have been done in the rural settings of 100 years ago.
		Traditional music (or public domain) is also used as a copyright status covering music which is out of copyright.
	www.traditionalmusic.co.uk (1129 words)

	Irish Traditional Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Traditional Irish music is very much alive today thanks to the efforts of the Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, an organisation for Irish musicians founded in 1951 whose success in promoting traditional Irish music is acknowledged.
		One of the best ways to experience Irish music is in the atmosphere of a pub where the Guinness is flowing and the "Craic is 90" (an expression which describes a highly charged and enjoyable atmosphere).
		Traditional Irish music instruments include the Celtic Harp the emblem of Ireland, The Bodhran, a single sided drum made of goatskin stretched over a beechwood frame, Uilleann pipes, a bellows operated wind instrument not unlike bagpipes.
	www.emeraldtiger.com /general/music.htm (384 words)

	Irish Traditional Music - Neil Anderson, uilleann piper; John Whelan, button accordionist; and Iarla O'Lionaird, sean ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sean nos means "old style" singing in Irish, and is ancient gaelic songs (in the Irish language), usually unaccompanied, and sometimes accompanied with uilleann pipe (or other) accompaniment.
		Martin Hayes and Sinead O Connor also perform on this CD, which combines traditional with very contemporary music, even edgy at times, with excerpts read from the book this film was taken from combined with the music at times.
		In Irish, the word 'uilleann' means elbow - the uilleann pipe is attached at the elbow, and is bellows-driven, rather than blown into (like the highland bagpipe).
	www.ndoylefineart.com /irishtrad.html (419 words)

	The Irish Traditional Music Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Irish Traditional Music Archive is a multi-media reference archive and resource centre for the traditional song, instrumental music and dance of Ireland.
		Traditional music is regarded by the Archive as being simultaneously a valuable part of historic Irish culture and a vigorous element of contemporary Irish culture which enjoys widespread popularity even outside Ireland.
		The logo, and trademark, of the Archive derives from the bell of a bronze horn of the Iron Age, the Loughnashade Horn, which is one of the oldest surviving Irish musical instruments.
	www.itma.ie /home/itmae1.htm (1508 words)

	Traditional Irish Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Irish traditional music has been popular in Erris for a long, long time and there are still a lot of people in Erris who continue it today.
		Traditional music survived best and for longer in isolated areas like this because there weren’t many visitors from outside into the place and the people were too poor to travel for entertainment or to buy gramophones or radios.
		She learnt music from listening to music in her house when she was younger and on radio.
	www.inver.org /ceantar/iollan.htm (439 words)

	Topics in traditional Irish music
		A 1962 conversation with Willie Clancy, the famed piper, explores his philosophy of traditional music.
		Traditional Irish music today is frequently encountered in the "session" (or even "seisiún"), a gathering of (usually) amateur musicians where tunes are played in unison by all the musicians who know the tune.
		The results of a survey to determine which traditional Irish tunes would be most suitable to play on Hallowe'en, which is really the ancient Celtic New Year festival of Oíche Shamhna.
	www.standingstones.com /tmirel.html (789 words)

	Irish Traditional Music Society
		The society was formed in 1994 and subsequently set up a traditional music centre in the Music Dept. The centre now holds recordings, books and articles relating to Irish Traditional Music available to students.
		The vice chairperson of the society in 1998 was the music dept.s traditional music lecturer Jimmy O'Brien Moran.
		It hopes to establish an Irish traditional music archive and comprehensive reference collection of material for the appreciation and study of the music in the institute.
	www.wit.ie /clubsandsocs/irish-trad-music (603 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Companion to Irish Traditional Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This ambitious volume comes at a time when Irish music and culture is experiencing a genuine renaissance, as evidenced by the popularity of such phenomena as Riverdance.
		Since the late 1960s, the traditional music scene has changed radically: the commercial life of traditional music has mushroomed, bringing with it tremendous growth in what might be called music tourism.
		Biographical entries cover significant musicians and composers and central themes; central themes within traditional music, such as the oral tradition, the Bardic system, and the politics of Irish music, are given extended entries.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0814788025?v=glance (1050 words)

	Irish Traditional Music
		The smart-alecky answer that it is the traditional music of Ireland is not strictly wrong, but it requires more detail to be useful to the person approaching the fascinating world of Irish music for the first time.
		The root of Irish music instrumentation is the Uilleann Pipes, (pronounced ILL-un, or ILL-yun,) the so-called Irish bagpipes, which are, by the way, a much different instrument from their more famous cousin, the Highland bagpipes played by military bands.
		We know that there was a musical tradition in the early Irish court, in which the harp (strung with brass wires played with the fingernails) featured prominently.
	www.murphyroche.com /Resources/Irish_Traditional_Music.htm (1234 words)

	Traditional_irish_folk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		She is an immense musical talent, including both being a master of Irish style fiddle and a composer...
		Hardiman has emerged as Ireland's finest interpreter of traditional music for films, TV, and the theater, and under his guidance the 19 lush orchestral tunes, augmented with many traditional instruments, are rife with the spirit of the Emerald Isle.
		Kick up your heels for old Erin : Irish dancing the way it was meant to be heard and music to soothe the leprechaun out of his gold.
	music.mysic.com /Traditional_Irish_Folk (1128 words)

	Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music
		Many Irish music teachers can hear a student (even when the student is a "professional" musician) and instantly pick out every single tune that the student learned from paper or in some other short-cut manner.
		They have studied the past of the tradition with great respect and care, they participate in the current tradition to general praise from other traditional musicians, and they are helping to shape the future of the tradition.
		Larry Sanger teaches Irish fiddle in Ohio, and I agree with his general advice for his students, but not with some of the fiddle-specific technical advice he gives there.
	alan-ng.net /irish/learning (1509 words)

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		Irish traditional music currently has the largest and richest collection of music, musicians, and instruments.
		Irish music generally is played by relatively large groups (in contrast to duets or trios found in Cape Breton music).
		They also put in some set dances, marches, and an infectious set of polkas to add spice....Almost all the tunes are traditional, and the band members have clearly done their homework; this...is a well-crafted album of new arrangements for thoroughly researched music learned from the best players, books and pubs in Irish music.
	www.sfcelticmusic.com /IRISHMUS/irishmusic.htm (4405 words)

	The Michael J. Quill Irish Cultural & Sports Centre - Traditional Irish Music Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Seamus will be joined at the 15th annual music festival by more than 40 professional Catskill Irish Arts Week musicians from all over the United States, Canada and Ireland.
		The Irish Cultural and Sports Centre is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization founded in 1987 in the hamlet of East Durham, Greene County, New York.
		Irish Park – Help pave the way to the Irish Village East Durham project and invest in a commemorative brick.
	www.east-durham.org /irishmusicfest (249 words)

	Links - traditional irish music instruments.
		Molly Malone- Irish Pub, Wehrdaer Weg 16a, Marburg
		This is TUNEdb, the traditional music database, where you can search our database of traditional tunes and store your tune information for the benefit of all.
		Glór - Irish Music Centre - Glór is a comfortable 485 seat venue in Ennis Co.Clare which celebrates the diversity and vibrancy of Irish Music.
	www.irish-music.net /LinkIrishMusic.htm (991 words)

	Home of the best traditional Irish music pubs and bars on the web. Folk music, celtic music, news, festival and session ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Visitors are looking for an authentic taste of the past and naturally look to Irish pubs which are one of the last ambassadors of our heritage that have remained unchanged.
		You’ll see that they all have their own distinctive style, be it for ballads, traditional music, dancing or in fact all of these.
		A tradition of a genuinely warm welcome, backed by first-rate modern service, is the hallmark of the friendliest spot in Dublin.
	www.irishmusicbars.com (383 words)

	Irish Traditional Folk And Celtic Music
		Devoted to "ancient Irish music" and mainly inspired by the collections of Edward Bunting.
		Offering news and notes on traditional Irish music, singing and dance, and on set dancing, with details of Irish ceili, ceili bands and set dancing events, in Ireland and abroad, a links section and a...
		JMI (The Journal of Music in Ireland) is a bi-monthly Irish music magazine, publishing articles and reviews on traditional, classical and contemporary music in Ireland.
	www.searchme.ie /music_traditional_folk_and_celtic.asp (474 words)

	The Standing Stones: Traditional Celtic music, harp and song
		We perform traditional music and song from Scotland and Ireland, and Canada and Australia where Scottish and Irish music took root during the Gaelic diaspora of the 19th century.
		While others may try to take traditional music into the future, our goal is to take it into the past.
		Not quite an encyclopedia yet, perhaps, but this is the doorway to a large and ever-growing collection of interesting information having to do with traditional music, early music and related topics.
	www.standingstones.com (687 words)

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		Ward Irish Music Archives, housed in the Irish Fest center contains one of the largest collections of Irish music and memorabilia in North America
		Irish Fest attendees showed their generosity Thursday by donating school supplies for children served by Hope House, courtesy of Potawatomi Bingo Casino and Sunday morning by donating non-perishable food items.
		During an address on Saturday to a crowd of thousands, McAleese reported that Ireland was “prosperous, peaceful, strong and confident.” She also called for expanding mutual trade and continuing cultural efforts that build on respect for difference and for democratic dialogue.
	www.irishfest.com (396 words)

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