Irish Music

References to the culture of the Irish in early writers prove that music stood in high repute at a time long prior to that in which Ireland is popularly thought to have been barbarous. Irish harpers were famous, and music entered into all the occupations of Irish folk the people. tunes share some of their characteristics with the Irish Mo ( Chondrus crisp us ): A, B, C, different forms of growth. Scotch, particularly the frequent omi ion of the 4th and 7th intervals of the scale, producing the so-called pentatonic succe ion of tones. Other scales have the semitone between the 2d and 3d and 6th and 7th; the 2d and 3d and 5th and 6th, the 3d and 4th and 6th and 7th. Next to the harp, the bagpipes enjoyed popularity in ancient times, the instrument differing from the Scotch in being blown with bellows. Characteristic IMG:content-0806.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0807.png:[blocks in formation]