Celtic Music : An Important Influence Influential Part Of People 's Lives

6. Is language a reliable demarcation of musical style in Europe? Why or why not?

For as long as mankind has walked on this earth, music has been an important part of our culture and lifestyles. Each walk of life beats to a different drum. Different cultures use music for many aspects of their lives; for religious purposes, for celebrations, for comfort, for sorrow, for relaxation, for sports, for dances, for energy, for learning, for sleeping, and for sexual experiences. Everyone uses music for something. Music connects with people and reaches them in ways that words simply cannot. Music is a representation of what feelings sound like. It expresses emotion and brings that characteristic out from within us; it tells us a story. Every generation has its’ own sound and different music styles have emerged and become

“O.M.G, I love that beat.” The few years I have spent in the United States of Americas, more generally in the western culture, it is very common to hear young people embrace such phrases in appreciating music. In non-western culture, music is always created for very specific purposes and one cannot just ‘love that beat.’ Music is more than just the beat, rhythm and a sing-along melody. In this paper, I will compare the traditional purpose of music and the culture of the drum in Native American and Ugandan tribes. Dr. Peck, in her book, Native American Music, defines culture as “way of life of a people, learned and transmitted from one generation to the next” The similarities in either

Music is heard differently through diverse cultures, which brings new and unlike interpretations on events in history and events to

Since the beginning of time, music and dance has been a form of entertainment for millions of people. As audiences across the world prepare for dance performances, they typically expect to see something that is lively, exciting, and unique. However, what most audiences of dance and musical performances neglect to consider is the origins and importance these forms of dance and music have on culture. It is truly astounding how synonymous music and history have been and continue to be. Understanding the history and culture behind a certain piece of music only makes the experience more special than ever. People need to realize the significance music has had on the foundation and progression of each and every culture around the globe.

Native American music has many different musical styles and within every Native American tribe there is a variety of musical styles and instruments played. Most Native American music dancers and singers are characterized by their different ways of dancing and the different types of instruments they play interpret from the tribe they originate from. The instruments the Natives used were all hand made, that it self symbolizes creativity and hard work. Drums and flutes were the two most made and played by the Natives. They way the Natives pounded on the drums was a way they expressed how they felt. The drums are the oldest instruments in the world; it is used in a handful of oral traditions. While the different American Indian tribes create and use drums in the different ways, most construct them in way where it is all very similar to each other. These drums aren’t the typical drums we see in rock concerts, we are talking about ancient drums where elk skin is wrapped around a

The hornpipe is a musical instrument and dance from the fifteen century , it has inspired many different european musical stylings since it’s inception. Many different people have used the hornpipe and it’s musical styling as influence for their music. Musicians have used the hornpipe to inform their musical style from the late fifteen century to the modern time. The influence of the hornpipe can be seen as recently as the Drop Kick Murphy's rendition of “Shipping up to Boston.”

The origins of Celtic music and the instruments used in order to create such healthily flamboyant music. Fiddle, Flute and whistle, uilleann pipes, harp, accordion, banjo, mandolin, guitar, drums, and many others were used in the creation of Celtic Music. The creation of these instruments gave the British Isles a distinct sound when it came to music. This sound was recognised around the world and still is. The British isles which consists of Ireland Scotland and Britain was not in touch with the rest of the world as far as culture was concerned very early in their history. This exclusion from external influences allowed Ireland to develop music that had its own unique sound. Even in this area some of the instruments changed in sound and shape. Not only were there the uilleann pipes in Ireland across the sea in Scotland the war pipes were prevalent. The distinction between the two is actually quite great. The tone of the two are different as well as the physical appearance. The War Pipes have three Drone pipes separately in the bag while the uilleann pipes has all three drones in one spot.

Throughout Celtic culture and history music is an extremely important aspect of life. The Celts had a variety of instruments and holidays that they would play songs of joy and fun. Often times they would call this music, Folk Music as it was mostly among the people of the nations of Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. Continue for 2-3 sentences.

Bordered by both England and the Atlantic Sea, Scotland is home to the second largest city in the world. A major influence on Scottish culture comes from it’s nationalistic music.

While I lack sources specifically on the Irish in the American music industry and song writing business of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, I am able to draw from other works that highlight relevant threads—such as immigration, Irish music, stereotyping, and identity—throughout my thesis. Scholarly writings (historical or otherwise) on the social dynamics found in and around the Irish influences in popular music produced in America around the turn of the twentieth century come in short supply. William H. Williams seems to be the only scholar to have extensively written about Irish and Irish-American song in the United States after the nineteenth century. Another honorable mention is due to musician and scholar, Mick Moloney, who studied the Irish presence on the American stage (vaudeville).

Scottish folk music also traditional Scottish music is music that uses the forms that are identified as part of traditional Scottish music. There is evidence that there is a growing culture of popular music in the late medieval Scotland, but the only song with a melody to survive from this period is "Pleugh Song". After the Reformation, the tradition of popular secular music continued, despite efforts by Kirk, especially in the lowlands, to suppress dancing and events such as weddings cent. The first clear reference to the use of the Highland bagpipe they will be used at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in 1547. The Highlands in the early seventeenth century saw the development pipeline including MacCrimmons family, Macarthurs, MacGregors and Mackays

The article that I had read was on the early influences of music at in that period of time. So, in the time period of 1492 through 1821 is where the early European influences for music primarily occurred because that is when the different types of people were combining their beliefs and cultures together. When the new world was founded, the Spanish and Portuguese people had brought along with them, their Roman Catholic music. They also brought other genres of music from their homelands, to the new world, not just religious music. Some of the more popular religious music had made a strong musical influence on subsequent folk music. During Christian and Native celebrations and feasts, the Native’s traditional ritual music was being influenced

In order to make it’s impact on traditional music the accordion had to develop a recognizably Irish style of playing in order for it to be associated with the Irish style of playing. As Irish traditional music involves a large variety of dance music tunes whose phrasing, rhythm, pitch and structure served as a crucial element of its particular genre. It might be said that the very construction of the accordion was suited to these elements particularly well especially the rhythmic element. As the same dance tunes that could be played on fiddles and pipes were played on the accordion and could still sound the same even though their sound was in two completely different dialects. Also the dynamic capability of the instrument is ne of the most

Music from all over the world presents a range of musical theories. Some of these are documented in writing whilst others are transmitted orally. Discuss and give examples with reference to both Western and non-Western music.