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Birth of the modern tradition (Decline of the wire-strung harp : changes…
Birth of the modern tradition
Medieval Ireland and its music
Music important in Irish society
Public display of status
Gaelic tradition
Stratified society - musicians were ranked
Function
Instrument
Variety of performers who sought patronage
Medieval instruments
Harp
Timpán & fidil (lyre)
Píopaí (pipes)
Feadán (whistle)
Stoc (trumpet for battle)
Concepts of music
Associated with
Spirituality
Ritual
Magic
Referred to as 'chanting'
Three types of music
Goltraí : sadness
Suantraí : meditation, sleep
Geantraí : laughter, good humour
Invasion and colonisation
Norman Invasion from 1169
Writing on Ireland and Irish music began to appear after this
Ireland = Musical Nation
Beginning of the suppression of the Gaelic culture
Decline of the wire-strung harp : changes to the pre-modern tradition
Wire-strung harps
Made from brass, bronze, steel, silver, gold string
Diatonic
Melody played with LH
Strings plucked with nails
Structure in the courts
Reacaire : reciter
Cruitire : harper
File : poet
Henry VIII and Elizabeth I
Proclamations against harpers, musicians, poets
Transformation of the harp's position in Irish society
Bardic courts
System of patronage
English dismantling of the Gaelic aristocracy
Considered dangerous, were persecuted
Roles of reacaire/file/cruitire degraded; harpers now composed, sang and performed
Remaining harpers employed by colonial elite & remnants of Gaelic families
17th - 18th century : Transitional period
Context
Instruments associated with Gaelic elite disapeared or modified their function
Sharp decline of the harp tradition
Professional harpers
Slower decay
Popular Gaelic traditions
Irish language
Vernacular Gaelic traditions
Military destruction, plantation, emigration, modernisation
Change in the function of music and song, which was previously associated with patronage
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