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How can we differentiate eighth note patterns when reading music?

MMSMA.3 - Reading and notating music

MMSMA.5 - Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines

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MMSMA.3 - Reading and notating music

MMSMA.5 - Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines

Today we will read and notate music,

learn about music in Ireland's culture,

dance,

sing,

and listen to/describe music.

IRELAND

Down by the Salley Garden

Poem by William Butler Yeats

• 1865-1939
• Irish poet
• 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature
• Salley Gardens was on the banks of the river at Ballysadare (salley="willow")
• Popular in all of UK, set to music by many composers

While we listen, journal about:

• instruments
• similarities (our music, jig, classical music, etc)

Sean Nós

• Irish for "old-style"
• "A rather complex way of singing in Gaelic"

How can I draw connections between my culture and Irish culture by comparing our folk music?

MMSMA.9 - Understanding music in relation to history and culture

MMSMA.6 - Listening to, analyzing, and describing music

MMSMA.9 - Understanding music in relation to history and culture

Characteristics

• varying the melody (embellishment)
• end some songs by speaking
• very long phrases
• poetry, laments, or references to historical events
• unaccompanied

Styles

• Donegal: unadorned and nasal
• Connemara: more embellishment, more familiar
• West Munster: even more embellishment

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Irish Vocal Music

Commercial (Current) Music

Traditional Irish Band

Step inside:

Perceive,

Know,

Care About

Classical Music

Traditional Music

Dervish- The Wise Maid

• Dancing at weddings, festivals
• Played in street by beggars or performers
• Entertainment in restaurants, at home
• Instruments easily accessed

• Heavily influenced by Britain
• Choral tradition stronger than instrumental
• Religious or worship music

MMSMA.6 - Listening to, analyzing, and describing music

MMSMA.6 - Listening to, analyzing, and describing music

MMSMA.9 - Understanding music in relation to history and culture

The Fiddle

• Introduced to Irish music several hundred of years ago

• Best known for its use in lively reels and jigs

The Tin Whistle

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• First developed in 12th century

The Bodhran

• Also called the penny whistle

• Originally used as a harvesting tool

• Not introduced into the Irish music culture until the 1960s

• Used in traditional Irish bands

• Usually played in a Kerry style with a two handed tipper (stick)

MMSMA.6 - Listening to, analyzing, and describing music

Uilleann Pipes

• Bellows under the right arm are squeezed to pump air through

• Pitch is played similar to flute: holes up the side

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Characteristics

• Solo Singing
• Unaccompanied
• Unamplified

The Corrs- Old Hag

What do you hear?

• A lot like the music we hear on the radio here
• Can also use traditional instruments
• Influences artists all around the world

Some Examples of Commercial Bands

• U2
• B-Witched
• The Killdares
• Sinead O'Connor
• singings sean-nos songs as well

MMSMA.6 - Listening to, analyzing, and describing music

MMSMA.9 - Understanding music in relation to history and culture

MMSMA.9 - Understanding music in relation to history and culture

Apply Dynamics

Setting?

Tempo (speed)?

Time signature?

(4/4 or 6/8?)

People?

Instruments?

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Baroque Gigue

Irish Jig

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• Instrumental

• Quick and wild dancing

• 6/8 time

• 2nd most popular

Irish stepdance

• Fiddle

• Instrumental

• Ballet-style dance

• Usually in 6/8 time

• Part of a Baroque Dance Suite
• 1600~1750
• Violin, cello, flute, lute, harpsichord