The Transmission of Tradition

Irish Traditional Music

• Itinerent harpers, e.g. Carolan composed tunes.
• Traveling dancing masters. Pipes, fiddles, flutes and whistles.
• Dance music:
  1. Jigs – East at Glendart
  2. Reels – The Wind that Shakes the Barley
  3. Hornpipes – The Rights of Man
  4. Slip Jigs – The Butterfly
  5. Polkas – Jessica’s
  6. Slides – O’Keefe’s
• Aural transmission.

Francis O’Neill