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	Encyclopedia: Music of the United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people.
		Skiffle music is a type of folk music with a jazz and blues influence, usually using homemade or improvised instruments such as the washboard, tea-chest bass, kazoo, cigar-box fiddle, or a comb and paper, and so forth.
		The reaction against progressive rock was swift, as the genre came to be perceived as needlessly obscure and inaccessible; a new generation of British youth hated progressive rock and the bombastic, indulgent sounds of heavy metal, disco and glam.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Music-of-the-United-Kingdom (5132 words)

	Music of the United Kingdom - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In addition, there are numerous distinct and semi-distinct folk traditions from the Isle of Man, Cornwall and the Channel Islands, as well as immigrants from Jamaica, India and other parts of the world.
		Folk music varies across Northumbria, Kent, Sussex and Yorkshire, and even within cities like London.
		Scottish folk music includes many kinds of songs, including ballads and laments, sung by a single singer with accompaniment by bagpipes, fiddles or harps.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Music_of_the_United_Kingdom (1257 words)

	ipedia.com: Music of Ireland Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ireland is internationally known for its folk music, which has remained a vibrant tradition throughout the 20th century, when many traditional forms worldwide lost popularity to pop music.
		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).
		A musical and dancing interval act starring Michael Flatley and Jean Butler was performed during the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest.
	www.ipedia.com /music_of_ireland.html (1906 words)

	Folk Music in Scottish Society
		Scottish poetry, as Stevenson suggests, is peculiarly rich in all that has to do with social life.
		And the repertory of music in the folk style was continually being enlarged; alongside traditional and what must often be extremely ancient melodies we find that from this period onwards more and more new but still generally anonymous tunes were being composed in the folk-song style.
		The folk tradition in eighteenth-century Scotland was thus available to all classes of society; the reason why it was not documented earlier than 1780 must therefore have been, not that educated people were not interested in it, but that they knew it all already.
	www.standingstones.com /scotfolk.html (2187 words)

	Selected Website Sources for Music, Books, Recordings, and General Information on Scottish Harp Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Folk Revolution (Glasgow, Scotland) offers a large variety of Scottish music books, including most of the harp and historical tunebooks from Scottish presses that are listed on the SHSA resource site.
		Gaelic and Scottish Connections (Aberdeen, Scotland) exists to raise the profile of the Gaelic language and culture, by making available on their website a large archive of Gaelic and Scottish related material.
		This source offers a large variety of Scottish music books, including most of the harp and historical tunebooks from Scottish presses that are on the SHSA resource list.
	www.shsa.org /comp/online.htm (962 words)

	fRoots Netrooting
		Abc music notation is used for exchanging traditional music in emails and newsgroups and is also used on popular tune sites.
		Jamaica's mento music is the roots of reggae.
		Folk, jazz and classical music with many of their artists hailing from Northern and Eastern Europe.
	www.frootsmag.com /content/issue/netroot (3105 words)

	traditional scottish music - about traditional scottish music
		Canto da Terra, group of Portuguese Traditional Music corporate for 4 elements and play arrangements of a traditional repertoire, passing for rhythms as Chulas, Saias or Malhandotilde;es, touched for artists as Amandaacute;lia and other singers of our land, with the intention of for hearings to participate singing and dancing.
		With a composition it are of the common o Group he is composed for a main singer who play guitar, one Cavaquinho a Doublebass, diverse percussions and voices.
		The sounds people accept as '''music''' vary according to historical era, location, and cultural and individual taste.
	artmam.net /traditional_scottish_music.htm (591 words)

	music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Description: It is committed to research, promotion and development of music education, specialising in contemporary music practices including music technology and rock music.
		Keywords: irish music, sessions, seisiun, irish music washington, irish music oregon, irish music alaska, irish music idaho, irish music montana, celtic, irish community, pipers, traditional music, folk music, flute, tin whistle, fiddle, bodhran, guitar, dulcimer, seattle
		Description: Music concert programme notes and music listening activities for professional and amateur orchestras, children, schools and music colleges.
	ranoc.com /music.htm (805 words)

	Irish music books, english and scottish music and tune books
		Irish music books, english music books, scottish music books plus much more.
		We believe that our Eagle Music Shop selection of tune books and music books, tuition and reference books in relation to the instruments that we stock and supply, is second to non.
		Celtic music books are one of our specialities.
	www.eaglemusicshop.com /books/index.asp (208 words)

	Free Sheet Music Download
		Music for Trombone by composer Eldad Tsabary : sheet music and samples
		Traditional folk music and songs popular in the 60's folk clubs in England
		A Traditional Music Library of folk music, tune-books, songbooks and sheet music
	iomusic.com /bush/free-sheet-music-download.html (3621 words)

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