Jig and Reel
- Created by: Emma Kirkup
- Created on: 11-04-14 13:56
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- Irish Jig and Reel
- Instruments
- Violin (fiddle), Irish open-holed wooden flute, tin whistle, concertina/ accordion, guitar, Uillean pipes (Irish bagpipes), and percussion such as the bodrhán (framed drum) and wooden spoons
- The instruments play the tune in unison
- Violin (fiddle), Irish open-holed wooden flute, tin whistle, concertina/ accordion, guitar, Uillean pipes (Irish bagpipes), and percussion such as the bodrhán (framed drum) and wooden spoons
- The music
- It has a strong regular beat with an emphasis of the first beat, so it's easy to dance to
- It's quite fast
- The melody has clear phrases in a question and answer pattern. Melodies are made of 2 8-bar sections, each played twice to make a 32-bar melody
- It has simple harmonies , some in a major key and some in minor modes
- A lot of the traditional music wasn't written down, but passed down over hundreds of years.
- Reels
- First taught by travelling dance teachers in the 1700s
- They are in 4/4 or 2/4, with accents on the first and third beats of the bar
- The tunes are made of straight quavers, and are quite quick
- It is a soft shoe dance for women, as it is light with lots of leaps, Men wear hard shoes
- Jigs
- They may have started out as the marches of ancient Irish clans
- They are lively and fast, and start on an anacrusis
- Single, double, light and heavy jigs are in 6/8, and slip jigs and in 9/8
- Hornpipes
- Originally an English dance that spread to Ireland in the 18th century. It was the music of sailors
- It is in 4/4
- It often has dotted rhythms, though the musicians can choose to play them straight
- It is slower than a reel
- Instruments
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