Celtic music, the Glossary
Celtic music is a broad grouping of music genres that evolved out of the folk music traditions of the Celtic people of Northwestern Europe (the modern Celtic nations).[1]
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161 relations: Accordion, Alan Stivell, AllMusic, Altan (band), Anúna, Andean music, Asturias, Attested language, Avilés, Bagad, Black 47, Bluegrass music, Bodhrán, Bombard (musical instrument), Bones (instrument), Bretons, Britonia, Brittany, Brittonic languages, Cantabria, Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Capercaillie (band), Celtiberian language, Celtic Colours, Celtic Connections, Celtic diaspora, Celtic fusion, Celtic harp, Celtic metal, Celtic music in Canada, Celtic music in the United States, Celtic nations, Celtic punk, Celtic rock, Celts, Celts (modern), Cerdd Dant, Ceredwen, Choir, Clannad, Colfiorito, Collado Villalba, Concertina, Cornish people, Cornwall, Country music, Da Capo Press, Dexys Midnight Runners, Donna Taggart, Dropkick Murphys, ... Expand index (111 more) »
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Accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German, from —"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame).
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Alan Stivell
Alan Stivell (born Alan Cochevelou on 6 January 1944) is a Breton and Celtic musician and singer, songwriter, recording artist, and master of the Celtic harp.
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
Altan (band)
Altan are an Irish folk music band formed in County Donegal in 1987 by lead vocalist Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and her husband Frankie Kennedy.
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Anúna
Anúna (stylized in all caps) is a vocal ensemble formed in Ireland in 1987 by Irish composer Michael McGlynn under the name An Uaithne.
Andean music
Andean music is a group of styles of music from the Andes region in South America.
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Asturias
Asturias (Asturies) officially the Principality of Asturias, (Principado de Asturias; Principáu d'Asturies; Galician–Asturian: Principao d'Asturias) is an autonomous community in northwest Spain.
Attested language
In linguistics, attested languages are languages (living or dead) that have been documented and for which the evidence (“attestation”) has survived to the present day.
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Avilés
Avilés is a town in Asturias, Spain.
Bagad
A bagad is a Breton band, composed of bagpipes (binioù, cornemuse), bombards and drums (including snare, tenor and bass drums).
Black 47
Black 47 was an American Celtic rock band from New York City, formed in 1989 by Larry Kirwan and Chris Byrne, and derives its name from a traditional term for the summer of 1847, the worst year of the Great Famine in Ireland.
Bluegrass music
Bluegrass music is a genre of American roots music that developed in the 1940s in the Appalachian region of the United States.
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Bodhrán
The bodhrán (plural bodhráin) is a frame drum used in Irish music ranging from in diameter, with most drums measuring.
Bombard (musical instrument)
The bombard is a contemporary family of oboes widely used to play traditional Breton music, where it is considered emblematic.
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Bones (instrument)
The bones, also known as rhythm bones, are a folk instrument that, in their original form, consists of a pair of animal bones, but may also be played on pieces of wood or similar material.
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Bretons
The Bretons (Bretoned or) are an ethnic group native to Brittany, north-western France.
Britonia
Britonia (which became Bretoña in Galician and Spanish) is the name of a Romano-British settlement on the northern coast of the Iberian peninsula at the time of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain.
Brittany
Brittany (Bretagne,; Breizh,; Gallo: Bertaèyn or Bertègn) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.
Brittonic languages
The Brittonic languages (also Brythonic or British Celtic; ieithoedd Brythonaidd/Prydeinig; yethow brythonek/predennek; and yezhoù predenek) form one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic language family; the other is Goidelic.
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Cantabria
Cantabria (also) is an autonomous community and province in northern Spain with Santander as its capital city.
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Cape Breton Regional Municipality
Cape Breton Regional Municipality (often referred to as simply "CBRM") is the Canadian province of Nova Scotia's second largest municipality and the economic heart of Cape Breton Island.
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Capercaillie (band)
Capercaillie are a Scottish folk band, founded in 1984 by Donald Shaw and led by Karen Matheson, and which performs traditional Gaelic and contemporary songs in English.
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Celtiberian language
Celtiberian or Northeastern Hispano-Celtic is an extinct Indo-European language of the Celtic branch spoken by the Celtiberians in an area of the Iberian Peninsula between the headwaters of the Douro, Tagus, Júcar and Turia rivers and the Ebro river.
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Celtic Colours
Celtic Colours International Festival is a Celtic music festival held annually in October on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Celtic Connections
The Celtic Connections festival started in 1994 in Glasgow, Scotland, and has since been held every January.
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Celtic diaspora
Celtic diaspora may refer to any of the following diasporas of Celtic people.
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Celtic fusion
Celtic fusion is an umbrella term for any modern music which incorporates influences considered "Celtic", or Celtic music which incorporates modern music.
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Celtic harp
The Celtic harp is a triangular frame harp traditional to the Celtic nations of northwest Europe.
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Celtic metal is a subgenre of folk metal that developed in the 1990s in Ireland.
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Celtic music in Canada
Celtic music is primarily associated with the folk traditions of Ireland, Scotland, Brittany and Wales, as well as the popular styles derived from folk culture.
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Celtic music in the United States
Irish, Scottish and Welsh music have long been a major part of American music, at least as far back as the 18th century.
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Celtic nations
The Celtic nations or Celtic countries are a cultural area and collection of geographical regions in Northwestern Europe where the Celtic languages and cultural traits have survived.
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Celtic punk
Celtic punk is punk rock mixed with traditional Celtic music. Celtic punk bands often play traditional Irish or Scottish folk and political songs, as well as original compositions.P. Buckley, The Rough Guide to Rock (London: Rough Guides, 2003), p. 798. Common themes in Celtic punk music include politics, Celtic culture (particularly Gaelic culture) and identity, heritage, religion, drinking and working class pride.
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Celtic rock
Celtic rock is a genre of folk rock, as well as a form of Celtic fusion which incorporates Celtic music, instrumentation and themes into a rock music context.
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Celts
The Celts (see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples.
Celts (modern)
The modern Celts (see pronunciation of ''Celt'') are a related group of ethnicities who share similar Celtic languages, cultures and artistic histories, and who live in or descend from one of the regions on the western extremities of Europe populated by the Celts.
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Cerdd Dant
, or penillion) is the art of vocal improvisation over a given melody in Welsh musical tradition. It is an important competition in eisteddfodau. The singer or (small) choir sings a counter melody over a harp melody.
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Ceredwen
Ceredwen (pronounced ker-ED-wen) is or was a Welsh musical duo comprising Andrew Fryer and Renee Gray who performed Celtic / new age music.
Choir
A choir (also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers.
Clannad
Clannad were an Irish band formed in 1970 in Gweedore, County Donegal, by siblings Ciarán, Pól and Moya Ui Bhraonáin (in English, Brennan) and their twin uncles Noel and Pádraig Ó Dúgáin (Duggan).
Colfiorito
Colfiorito ("Flowery Hill") is a village in Umbria, central Italy, now a frazione (borough) of the comune (municipality) of Foligno.
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Collado Villalba
Collado Villalba is a municipality of the Community of Madrid, in central Spain.
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Concertina
A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica.
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Cornish people
The Cornish people or Cornish (Kernowyon, Cornƿīelisċ) are an ethnic group native to, or associated with Cornwall: and a recognised national minority in the United Kingdom, which (like the Welsh and Bretons) can trace its roots to the Brittonic Celtic ancient Britons who inhabited Great Britain from somewhere between the 11th and 7th centuries BC and inhabited Britain at the time of the Roman conquest.
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Cornwall
Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.
Country music
Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.
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Da Capo Press
Da Capo Press is an American publishing company with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Dexys Midnight Runners
Dexys Midnight Runners (currently Dexys, their former nickname, styled without an apostrophe) are an English pop rock band from Birmingham, with soul influences, who achieved major commercial success in the early to mid- 1980s.
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Donna Taggart
Donna Taggart (born 24 August 1985) is a Northern Irish Celtic singer and musician.
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Dropkick Murphys
Dropkick Murphys are an American Celtic punk band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1996.
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Eisteddfod
In Welsh culture, an eisteddfod is an institution and festival with several ranked competitions, including in poetry and music.
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Electronica
Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that came to prominence in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom.
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Enya
Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin (born 17 May 1961) known mononymously as Enya, is an Irish composer and singer-songwriter.
Esposende
Esposende is a city and a municipality in Braga District in Portugal.
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Eurovision Song Contest 1996
The Eurovision Song Contest 1996 was the 41st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 18 May 1996 at the i in Oslo, Norway.
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Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention are an English folk rock band, formed in 1967 by guitarists Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol, bassist Ashley Hutchings and drummer Shaun Frater (with Frater replaced by Martin Lamble after their first gig).
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Fernhill (band)
Fernhill is a Welsh folk band formed in 1996.
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Festival de Cornouaille
The Festival de Cornouaille (or just Cornouaille Kemper) is an annual festival taking place in Quimper, a city in the south-west of Brittany, a western region of France.
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Festival Interceltique de Lorient
The Festival interceltique de Lorient (French), Emvod Ar Gelted An Oriant (Breton) or Inter-Celtic Festival of Lorient in English, is an annual Celtic festival, located in the city of Lorient, Brittany, France.
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Fiddle
A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.
Fleadh Cheoil
The Fleadh Cheoil, or "music festival" in English, is an annual Irish arts festival and competition run by Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (Irish pronunciation: ˈkoːl̪ˠt̪ˠəsˠ ˈcoːl̪ˠt̪ˠoːɾʲiː ˈeːɾʲən̪ˠ), or CCÉ, a non-profit organisation which aims to promote the learning of and performance of Irish traditional music and dance internationally and domestically, as the group maintains international branches in several countries.
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Flogging Molly
Flogging Molly is an American seven-piece Celtic punk band.
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Flute
The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.
Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.
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Folk rock
Folk rock is a fusion genre of rock music with heavy influences from pop, English and American folk music.
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François Jaffrennou
François-Joseph-Claude Jaffrennou (15 March 1879 - 23 March 1956) was a Breton language writer and editor.
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Gaelic folk music
Gaelic folk music or Gaelic traditional music is the folk music of Goidelic-speaking communities in Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man, often including lyrics in those languages.
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Galicia (Spain)
Galicia (Galicia (officially) or Galiza; Galicia) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law.
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Galician gaita
The Galician gaita (Gaita galega, Gaita galega, Gaita gallega) is the traditional instrument of Galicia and northern Portugal.
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Galician language
Galician (galego), also known as Galego, is a Western Ibero-Romance language.
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Gallaecian language
Gallaecian or Northwestern Hispano-Celtic is an extinct Celtic language of the Hispano-Celtic group.
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Gallo-Brittonic languages
The Gallo-Brittonic languages, also known as the P-Celtic languages, are a proposed subdivision of the Celtic languages containing the languages of Ancient Gaul (both celtica and belgica) and Celtic Britain, which share certain features.
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Glasgow
Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.
Goidelic languages
The Goidelic or Gaelic languages (teangacha Gaelacha; cànanan Goidhealach; çhengaghyn Gaelgagh) form one of the two groups of Insular Celtic languages, the other being the Brittonic languages.
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Great Highland bagpipe
The great Highland bagpipe (a' phìob mhòr 'the great pipe') is a type of bagpipe native to Scotland, and the Scottish analogue to the great Irish warpipes.
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Hardcore punk
Hardcore punk (commonly abbreviated to hardcore or hXc) is a punk rock subgenre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s.
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Harp
The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.
Hebridean Celtic Festival
The Hebridean Celtic Festival (Scottish Gaelic: Fèis Cheilteach Innse Gall) or HebCelt is an international Scottish music festival, which takes place annually in Stornoway on Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
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Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau
"Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau" is the unofficial national anthem of Wales.
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Hip hop music
Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.
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Horslips
Horslips are an Irish Celtic rock band that compose, arrange and perform songs frequently inspired by traditional Irish airs, jigs and reels.
Irish bouzouki
The Irish bouzouki is an adaptation of the Greek bouzouki (Greek: μπουζούκι).
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Irish traditional music
Irish traditional music (also known as Irish trad, Irish folk music, and other variants) is a genre of folk music that developed in Ireland. Celtic music and Irish traditional music are culture of Ireland.
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Isle of Man
The Isle of Man (Mannin, also Ellan Vannin) or Mann, is an island country and self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland.
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Kan ha diskan
Kan ha diskan is probably the most common type of traditional music of Brittany.
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Latin music
Latin music (Portuguese and música latina) is a term used by the music industry as a catch-all category for various styles of music from Ibero-America, which encompasses Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and the Latino population in Canada and the United States, as well as music that is sung in either Spanish and/or Portuguese.
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León, Spain
León is a city and municipality of Spain, capital of the province of León, part of the autonomous community of Castile and León, in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula.
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List of Celtic festivals
Celtic festivals celebrate Celtic culture, which in modern times may be via dance, Celtic music, food, Celtic art, or other mediums.
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Loreena McKennitt
Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt (born February 17, 1957) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who writes, records, and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern influences.
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Lorient
Lorient is a town (commune) and seaport in the Morbihan department of Brittany in western France.
LP record
The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, specifically a phonograph record format characterized by: a speed of rpm; a 12- or 10-inch (30- or 25-cm) diameter; use of the "microgroove" groove specification; and a vinyl (a copolymer of vinyl chloride acetate) composition disk.
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Macerata
Macerata is a city and comune in central Italy, the county seat of the province of Macerata in the Marche region.
Manx people
The Manx (ny Manninee) are an ethnic group originating on the Isle of Man, in the Irish Sea in Northern Europe.
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Melody
A melody, also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.
Mieres
Mieres is a municipality of Asturias, northern Spain, with approximately 38,000 inhabitants.
Mill a h-Uile Rud
Mill a h-Uile Rud is a Seattle-based band who sing in Scottish Gaelic.
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Moya Brennan
Moya Brennan (born Máire Philomena Ní Bhraonáin on 4 August 1952), also known as Máire Brennan, is an Irish folk singer, songwriter, harpist, and philanthropist.
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Music festival
A music festival is a community event with performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., rock, blues, folk, jazz, classical music), nationality, locality of musicians, or holiday.
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Music genre
A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.
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Music of Brittany
Since the early 1970s, Brittany has experienced a tremendous revival of its folk music.
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Music of Cornwall
Cornwall is a Celtic nation with a long musical history.
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Music of Ireland
Irish music is music that has been created in various genres on the island of Ireland. Celtic music and music of Ireland are culture of Ireland.
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Music of Portugal
Portuguese music includes many different styles and genres, as a result of its history.
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Music of Scotland
Scotland is internationally known for its traditional music, which remained vibrant throughout the 20th century and into the 21st when many traditional forms worldwide lost popularity to pop music.
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Music of the Isle of Man
The music of the Isle of Man reflects Celtic, Norse and other influences, including those from its neighbours, Scotland, Ireland, England and Wales.
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Music of the United States
The United States' multi-ethnic population is reflected through a diverse array of styles of music.
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Music of Wales
The Music of Wales (Welsh: Cerddoriaeth Cymru), particularly singing, is a significant part of Welsh national identity, and the country is traditionally referred to as "the land of song".
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National anthem
A national anthem is a patriotic musical composition symbolizing and evoking eulogies of the history and traditions of a country or nation.
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New-age music
New-age is a genre of music intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism.
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Northwestern Europe
Northwestern Europe, or Northwest Europe, is a loosely defined subregion of Europe, overlapping Northern and Western Europe.
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Oi Polloi
Oi Polloi are a punk rock band from Scotland that formed around 1981.
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Old-time music
Old-time music is a genre of North American folk music.
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Ortigueira
Ortigueira is a seaport and municipality in the province of A Coruña the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain.
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Ortigueira's Festival of Celtic World
Ortigueira, a seaport and borough in County Ferrolterra (A Coruña) in Galicia, celebrates its patron saint day -Saint Martha of Ortigueira's Day- on 29 July.
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Paddy Moloney
Paddy Moloney (Pádraig Ó Maoldomhnaigh; 1 August 1938 – 12 October 2021) was an Irish musician, composer, and record producer.
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Pan-Celticism
Pan-Celticism (Pan-Cheilteachas, Scottish Gaelic: Pan-Cheilteachas, Breton: Pan-Keltaidd, Welsh: Pan-Geltaidd, Cornish: Pan-Keltaidh, Manx: Pan-Cheltaghys), also known as Celticism or Celtic nationalism is a political, social and cultural movement advocating solidarity and cooperation between Celtic nations (both the Brythonic and Gaelic branches) and the modern Celts in Northwestern Europe.
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Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
Pentangle (band)
Pentangle are a British folk band, formed in London in 1967.
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Pentatonic scale
A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to heptatonic scales, which have seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale).
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Pibroch
Pibroch, piobaireachd or ceòl mòr is an art music genre associated primarily with the Scottish Highlands that is characterised by extended compositions with a melodic theme and elaborate formal variations.
Ponte da Barca
Ponte da Barca is a municipality in the district of Viana do Castelo in Portugal.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Portuguese language
Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Progressive music
Progressive music is music that attempts to expand existing stylistic boundaries associated with specific genres of music.
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Puirt à beul
Puirt à beul (literally "tunes from a mouth") is a traditional form of song native to Scotland (known as portaireacht in Ireland) that sets Gaelic lyrics to instrumental tune melodies.
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Punk rock
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s.
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Quebec
QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.
Quebec City
Quebec City (or; Ville de Québec), officially known as Québec, is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec.
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Quimper
Quimper (Kemper; Civitas Aquilonia or Corisopitum) is a commune and prefecture of the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France.
Reel (dance)
The reel is a folk dance type as well as the accompanying dance tune type.
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Reggae
Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
Riverdance
Riverdance is a theatrical show that consists mainly of traditional Irish music and dance.
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Romance languages
The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar Latin.
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Runrig
Runrig were a Scottish Celtic rock band formed on the Isle of Skye in 1973.
Saint-Charles-Borromée
Saint-Charles-Borromée, Quebec (2021 Population 15,285) is a city in southwest-central Quebec, Canada, on the l'Assomption River.
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Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic (endonym: Gàidhlig), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland.
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Scottish Gaelic punk
Scottish Gaelic punk (also known as Gaelic punk) is a subgenre of punk rock in which bands sing some or all of their music in Scottish Gaelic.
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Sean-nós singing
Sean-nós singing (Irish for "old style") is unaccompanied, traditional Irish vocal music usually performed in the Irish language.
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Shaun Davey
Shaun Davey (born 18 January 1948) is an Irish composer.
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Skara Brae (band)
Skara Brae were an Irish traditional music group from Kells, County Meath with origins in Ranafast (Rann na Feirste), County Donegal.
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Smooth jazz
Smooth jazz is a term used to describe commercially oriented crossover jazz music.
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Steeleye Span
Steeleye Span are a British folk rock band formed in 1969 in England by Fairport Convention bass player Ashley Hutchings and established London folk club duo Tim Hart and Maddy Prior.
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Stockton's Wing
Stockton's Wing are an Irish band formed in 1977 by four All-Ireland champion musicians; Paul Roche on flute/whistle, Maurice Lennon on fiddle, Tommy Hayes on bodhran, and Kieran Hanrahan on banjo/mandolin, along with Tony Callinan on guitar and vocals.
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Stornoway
Stornoway (Steòrnabhagh; Stornowa) is the main town, and by far the largest town, of the Outer Hebrides (or Western Isles), and the capital of Lewis and Harris in Scotland.
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Strathspey (dance)
A strathspey is a type of dance tune in time, featuring dotted rhythms (both long-short and short-long "Scotch snaps"), which in traditional playing are generally somewhat exaggerated rhythmically.
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Super Furry Animals
Super Furry Animals are a Welsh rock band formed in Cardiff in 1993.
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The Corrs
The Corrs are an Irish family band that combine pop rock with traditional Irish themes within their music.
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The Pilgrim (Shaun Davey album)
The Pilgrim is a live album by the composer Shaun Davey.
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The Pogues
The Pogues were an English or Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band fronted by Shane MacGowan and others, founded in King's Cross, London, in 1982, as Pogue Mahone—an anglicisation of the Irish phrase ''póg mo thóin'', meaning "kiss my arse".
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The Tossers
The Tossers are an American six-piece Celtic punk band from Chicago, Illinois, United States, formed in July 1993.
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Tin whistle
The tin whistle, also known as the penny whistle, is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument.
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Traditional music of Galicia, Cantabria and Asturias
Northwest Iberian folk music is a traditional highly distinctive folk style, located along Spain's north-west Atlantic coast, mostly Galicia and Asturias, that has some similarities with the neighbouring area of Cantabria.
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Trieste
Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy.
Trip hop
Trip hop is a musical genre that originated in the late 1980s in the United Kingdom, especially Bristol.
Tullamore
Tullamore is the county town of County Offaly in Ireland.
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U2
U2 are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1976.
Uilleann pipes
The uilleann pipes, also known as Union pipes and sometimes called Irish pipes, are the characteristic national bagpipe of Ireland.
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Vila Nova de Gaia
Vila Nova de Gaia (Cale), or simply Gaia, is a city and a municipality in Porto District in Norte Region, Portugal.
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Waulking song
Waulking songs (Òrain Luaidh) are Scottish folk songs, traditionally sung in the Gaelic language by women while fulling (waulking) cloth.
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Welsh people
The Welsh (Cymry) are an ethnic group native to Wales.
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Yn Chruinnaght
Yn Chruinnaght (Manx for "the gathering") is a cultural festival in the Isle of Man which celebrates Manx music, Manx language and culture, and links with other Celtic cultures.
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See also
Music of Europe
- Balkan music
- Bicinium
- Carl Tucker
- Celtic music
- Empathism
- Eurovision Choir
- Eurovision Song Contest
- Eurovision Young Musicians
- Heavy metal drumming
- Music of Ossetia
- Music of the Faroe Islands
- Nordic music
- Organum
- Romani music
- Romanticism
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_music
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