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Celtic music means two things mainly. First, it is the music of the people that identify themselves as Celts. Secondly, it refers to whatever qualities may be unique to the music of the Celtic nations. Many notable Celtic musicians such as Alan Stivell and Paddy Moloney [3] claim that the different Celtic music genres have a lot in common. [1 ...
Carnyx players (bottom right) on a panel from the Gundestrup Cauldron Sculpture depicting a bard with a lyre (Brittany, 2nd century BC). Deductions about the music of the ancient Celts of the La Tène period and their Gallo-Roman and Romano-British descendants of Late Antiquity rely primarily on Greek and Roman sources, as well as on archaeological finds and interpretations including the ...
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.In addition, a number of other areas of the world are known for the use of Celtic musical styles and techniques, including Newfoundland, and much of the folk music of Canada's Maritimes, especially on Cape Breton Island and Prince ...
Celtic Fiddle Festival; Celtic music in Poland; Celtic Thunder; Celtic Woman; Celtus (band) Charlie and the Bhoys; Cherish the Ladies; The Chieftains; Clandestine (band) Tadhg Cooke; The Corrs; William Coulter; Craicmore; Culann's Hounds
العربية; Aragonés; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български; Català; Čeština; Cymraeg; Dansk; Ελληνικά; Español; Esperanto
Irish, Scottish and Welsh music have long been a major part of American music, at least as far back as the 18th century.Beginning in the 1960s, performers like the Clancy Brothers became stars in the Irish music scene, which dates back to at least the colonial era, when many Irish immigrants arrived.
Celtic Music is a British, Yorkshire-based publishing, distribution and record label, which specialized in folk and Celtic music recordings released between the 1970s to the early 2000s. As at 2018, the company still exists but its last release of original music was in 2007.
The six Celtic nationalities are divided into two musical groups, Gaelic and Brythonic, [1] which according to Alan Stivell differentiate "mostly by the extended range (sometimes more than two octaves) of Irish and Scottish melodies and the closed range of Breton and Welsh melodies (often reduced to a half-octave), and by the frequent use of the pure pentatonic scale in Gaelic music".