Irish Music
The Irish music is a result of oral tradition .There were on the one hand unaccompanied solo singers varying the melody of every verse. In actual fact, Irish traditional music differs with the region of Ireland for example the dialect. On the other hand there was the instrumental music which initially was played on weddings or saints days for dancing like for example polkas. In order to create such a kind of music the Irish used instruments like the flute, the whistle, the harp and the banjo.
Banjo
Flute
In the middle years of the 20th century the Irish tried to modernise and that is why this kind of genre was low regarded. But in the 1960’s a revival of traditional Irish music took place due to the American folk music movement. Especially The Dubliners and the Clancy Brothers were leading to this progress.Today many bands like U2 connecting the Irish music with other genres are well-known all over the world.
Harp
Whistle
sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Ireland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_music
http://www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/culture/music/traditional/tm.shtm
very good presentation
not too much information ..you can read it good!
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Nice pictures and many good links to listen to your presented music. ;)
Besides your text gives a lot of information.
I like your presentation of Irish music with the images you have chosen. I got much information and I could understand all of that and it isn’t too much information so you created it very interesting.
Hi Hai,
Good presentation, not too much inforamtion but enough to learn something about the music and the dance. To use pictures was good because than you got an idea of the old traditional dancing and music.
I think you made an interesting presentation with good information about Irish music and dance… The pictures you chose fit to the theme you worked on…
nice presentations and nice pictures, too:)
well done!
Lara