Instrument Category Term Paper

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Irish music is interesting because the traditional Irish music is still popular today. For centuries, Irish music and songs were not written down but passed down from generation to generation by one person teaching the song to another (Wikipedia), so the same song may be performed in several different ways. An interesting fact about Irish music is that traditional music does not include harmony. If a singer sang a song, any instruments also played the melody (Wikipedia). Also, often the melodies follow a specific pattern. A line is played or sung, and then repeated.
Then a second line is played or sung, and then that one is repeated. Traditional Irish music doesn't typically change how loud or soft it is because it was hard for the many of the traditional instruments to vary how loudly they were played (Wikipedia).

Common instruments include the bag pipe and tin whistle, which are aerophones, the bodhrain or drum, a membranophone, and the fiddle (violin) and Irish harp, which are chordophones (OME).

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