3.Characteristics;Classes;Styles. There was not in Ireland, any more than elsewhere, anything like modern developments of music. There were no such sustained and elaborate compositions as operas, oratorios, or sonatas. The music of ancient Ireland consisted wholly ofshort airs, each with two stra...
Studies of medieval musical instruments draw upon written testimony, iconography (manuscript art, painting, drawing, sculpture and stained glass windows) and surviving instruments to describe their characteristics and the way they developed over time. In my search for evidence about medieval plectrums, ...
But this was not all. Many of his admirers also claimed, on supposedly objective historical grounds, that the only viable creative future lay with atonality and serialism, which had superseded other, more traditional modes of expression and rendered them obsolete. Schoenberg’s innovations were held...
Due to the lack of economic resources in Ireland and Scotland, which are their main living spaces, and the political repression, we can also find that while romantic and extravagant, their culture, especially in music, often presents a sad and sad color. #Po...
What are the roots of country music? Country music has roots in folk music of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Western Africa. It also draws heavily from jazz, blues, and Appalachian folk music. What are the characteristics of country and western music?
At nineteen he was engaged to transcribe music from oral-tradition harpists at the Belfast Harp Festival in 1792. As Bunting was a classically trained musician, he did not understand the unique characteristics of Irish music, such as modes, and when transcribing tunes he ‘corrected...
The vast majority of the sample identified as being from Western nations, with the most common nations being Germany (31.7%), the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland (21.3%), and the United States (20.5%). The remaining participants either represented various other nationalities (21.2%)...
Irish music is here defined as "encompassing all creative music making in Ireland". The role of music as a mediating force in Irish society is discussed and four Irish musical figures are compared: Carolan, Moore, Potts and O Riada. In all four cases, mediation took place between the ...
ARTHUR DOYLE TRIO with CHARLES STEPHENS / RASHIED SINAN - Nature Boy (Homeboy Music; Ireland) Featuring Arthur Doyle on tenor sax, bass clarinet & flute, Charles Stephens on trombone and Rashied Sinan on drums, recorded live at Studio Rivbea, NYC in August of 1972. Cosmic reeds wizard, Arth...
Dáil (Irish) the Parliament of the Republic of Ireland Daily office the daily cycle of choir services performed by clergy; also referred to as divine office Daim (French m.) fallow deer, suede (leather) Daimio (Japanese) a Japanese prince or nobleman Daina (s.), Dainos (pl.) the centr...