Tune Listening
How to Check an Irish Tune Name
To check an Irish tune name, preserve the title you were given, then connect it to a specific recording, transcription or catalogue record.
Tune Listening
Meter offers a useful doorway into a tune type, but performance is more than a fraction printed at the beginning of a staff. Lift, swing, accent, tempo, and regional style live in the playing. These guides count only long enough to help the ear notice what musicians and dancers already make audible.
Tune Listening
Irish Traditional Music Instruments: A Listener's Guide
Common Irish traditional music instruments include fiddle, wooden flute, tin whistle, uilleann pipes, button accordion, concertina, tenor banjo, and bodhrán.
Tune Listening
Jig vs Reel: Hear the Difference Before Counting
An Irish double jig commonly groups six eighth notes into two larger beats of three and is often written in 6/8: ONE-two-three, FOUR-five-six.