'Irish Music Assignment Essay\r'

'The bourn Sean-nos or traditional Irish notification in the Irish Language, is a path of singing, which is rooted in the Gaeltacht regions of the Ireland. There be triplet main ways of Sean-nos, corresponding to the three field of honors where Irish is still spoken as a community language, the Gaeltachtai of Munster, Connacht and Ulster. Munster Gaeltachtai includes parts of Kerry, cork up and Waterford, the Connemara region of Connacht and the Ulster Gaeltacht in Donegal. Although Sean-nos is practised remote these areas, only in these 3 areas would it be the most popular. Even though all(prenominal) told these areas have all share the homogeneous interest in singing they all have there own extraordinary ways of performing Sean-nos songs. Sean-nos singing is commonly unaccompanied and performed as a aviate art. The person who sings a Sean-nos song is unremarkably telling a story through the song by combining numerous vocal techniques, especially through the use up of medalation and variation.\r\nSean-nos vocalizers use different techniques to ornament the performance of a song, One syllable in a word canister be sung to several notes and the notes can be varies from verse to verse. Sometimes the notes to be ornamented can be adjacent to each otherwise and at other times the orifice amidst them is wide. This look of singing is confined mainly to Munster. Different notes can be stressed for a particular effect, or a note can be held over several beats. for example the storied Sean-nos utterer from munster Iarla à Lionáird shows off these techniques of embellishment and variation in his most young phonograph album Foxlight which was released in September 2011.\r\n other obvious difference between the Sean-nos style of singing can be seen in the Ulster style. Donegal sean-nós has been heavily influenced by Scottish Gaelic song, which is much less ornamented than sean-nós. Donegal singers list to keep a steady pulse en d-to-end the song. The melody is presented with minimal laurel wreath grace notes, and may also sway a steady pulse throughout the song. The Donegal style of Sean-nos singing can be heard through Doimnic Mac Giolla Bhríde who is a well known sean-nós singer from Gaoth Dobhair, Co. Donegal who was the winner of Corn Uí Riada, the Oireachtas sean-nós singing competition, in 2009.\r\nDominic released his own album in 2004 called Saol na Suáilce, presenting us with the queer Ulster style of Sean-nos singing Like the Munster style of singing Connacht Sean-nos singing in the Connemara area is also highly ornamentated with forms familiar to a traditional instrumentalis and also alot of variation making it difficult to tell the difference between the two, Seosamh à hÉanaí from Connemara a famous Sean-nos singer that passed away in 1984 had recorded hundreds of songs using his distinct Connemara style of singing.\r\n'