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Author Cowdery, James R., 1953-

Title Melodic Tradition of Ireland
Published Ashland : Kent State University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (221 pages)
Series World Music
World Music
Contents ""Cover ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Contents ""; ""Preface ""; ""Notes on Transcriptions and Analyses ""; ""1 The Melodic Tradition of Ireland ""; ""Historical Background ""; ""Language ""; ""Sean-nós ""; ""Learning ""; ""Where the Music Lives ""; ""Musical Elements ""; ""Instruments ""; ""2 ""Putting It Over"" ""; ""Decorating a Song ""; ""The Pulse ""; ""The Nea ""; """"Say a Song"" ""; ""3 Portrait of a Tune: ""The Blackbird"" ""; ""Preliminary Sketch ""; ""Transcribed Examples ""; ""Summary ""; ""4 ""The Whole of It"" ""; ""Development of the Tune-Family Concept ""; ""Three Principles ""
""5 Two Outlining Families: ""Ballylee"" and ""Rakish Paddy"" """"""Ballylee"" ""; """"Rakish Paddy"" ""; ""6 Conjoining: ""The Boyne Water"" ""; ""7 Recombining: ""The Blackbird"" ""; """"The Beauty of Innuendoes"" ""; ""Appendixes ""; ""Notes ""; ""References Cited ""; ""Index ""
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Subject Music -- Ireland -- History and criticism
Songs, Irish -- Ireland -- History and criticism
Melodic analysis.
Melodic analysis
Music
Songs, Irish
Ireland
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781612770352
1612770355