Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Irish Dance
- CONTEXT
- form of line dancing
- Ireland
- type of step dance
- legs do the most of the work
- as a pair or group
- MUSIC
- Strong, regular beat with accent on the first beat
- Regular 8 or 16 bar phrases
- Simple harmonies
- Texture is heterophonic
- several instruments
play their own
version of the
melody at the same
time
- lively and upbeat
- INSTRUMENTS
- irish tin whistle
- fiddle
- Bodhran
- IRISH JIG
- compound time signature
- 6/8
- 9/8
- 12/8
- main beat is 3 not 2
- quite a quick tempo
- REELS
- 4/4
- even straight quavers
- not dotted
- accents on the 1st and 3rd bar
- fast tempo