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19 Fiddle - Slow Airs (Fidil/Veidhlín - Foinn Mhalla) 20 Uilleann Pipes - Slow Airs ... 2007, St. Rochs, Irish Minstrels Branch, Glasgow, Scotland; 2008, CCÉ ...
A slow air is a type of tune in Irish traditional music, marked by the absence of strict metre or structure, melodically "open ended" and generally derived from the melody of a sung song but instead played on a solo melodic instrument. [1] The melodies are often drawn from the sean-nós solo singing tradition. [2]
Seán McGuire, Traditional Irish Fiddle, Outlet SOLP 1006. Also issued as The Best of Sean McGuire Outlet OLP 1006, 1971. Reissued as Outlet PTICD 1006. [4] Seán McGuire and Roger Sherlock with Josephine Keegan, At Their Best, Outlet SOLP 1008, 1970 or 1971. L [5] [6] Seán McGuire and Joe Burke. Two Champions, SOLP 1014, 1971.
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Old Recordings of Slow Airs (2021) Other recordings include: a series of whistle recordings included with the tutor book Irish Pennywhistle Taught By Cathal McConnell published by Homespun Tapes. an extensive series of recordings documenting Cathal's song repertoire included with the book I Have Travelled This Country.
Slow airs are occasionally played upon the fiddle, but the style is best known for fast, snappy reels and jigs. Strathspeys, popular in Scottish Fiddle are seldom played, as such, but there are some tunes which amply utilized dotted rhythm. Some tunes are: The Wind That Shakes The Barley; The Humours Of Lissadell; The Maid Behind The Bar
Gunning won the All-Ireland tin whistle slow airs competition at the Fleadh Cheoil in 1976 and senior Scór title for "Music Instrument" section, which incorporates all musical instruments used in traditional Irish music including the fiddle, uilleann pipes, accordion and harp as well as the tin whistle. [citation needed]
Frankie Gavin was born in 1956 in Corrandulla, County Galway, from a musical family; his parents and siblings being players of the fiddle and accordion. As a child he played the tin whistle from the age of four and, later, the flute. He received some formal training in music, but his musical ability on the fiddle is mainly self-taught. [1]