Wikibooks: Ethnography of Fiddle/Donegal fiddle tradition

• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Subjects: Thumb; McCarthy; Altan; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ethnography_of_Fiddle/Donegal_fiddle_tradition

The Donegal fiddle tradition is a type of [[Irish traditional music]] based on a two hundred year old tradition (or possibly set of coexisting traditions) of playing the [[fiddle]] in [[County Donegal]] [[last = Vallely first = Fintan year = 1999 title= The Companion to Irish Traditional Music publisher=Cork University Press isbn=0 8147 8802 5 page=2 postscript = }} Donegal is a partly [[Irish]] speaking highland county in northwestern Ireland and one of the three counties of the northern Irish province of [[Ulster]] that are part of the [[title=Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape (Hardcover) author=F. H. A. Aalen et al. date=1997 07 19 isbn=978 0802042941 publisher=University of Toronto}} The tradition has several distinguishing traits most of which involves styles of [[bowing]] and the [[ornamentation]] of the music as well as the [[rhythm]]. Another characteristic of the style is the rapid pace at which it tends to proceed. Modern players such as the fiddle group [[Altan]] continue to be popular due to a variety of reasons. cite book title=The Companion to Irish Traditional Music author=Fintan Vallely publisher=New York University Press year=1999 isbn=0814788025 =History= [[alt=Seated man playing a fiddle in a studio wearing earphones. right thumb [[Newfoundland]] fiddler Paddy Moran]] Donegal styles has its roots in ancient Irish music styles although the accent on the Donegal fiddle tradition is also somewhat related to the Scots tradition. Between the Jigs and the Reels The Donegal Fiddle Tradition C Mac Aoidh 1994 Drumlin Publications Donegal and Shetland Fiddle Music D McLaughlin Irish Traditional Music Society 1992 Irish Traditional Music Society University College Cork Changing cultural landscapes the co existence of musical genres in Irish culture and education. M McCarthy Irish Studies Review 2004 Taylor Francis Like some Scottish fiddlers (who like Donegal fiddlers tend to use a short bow and play in a straight ahead fashion) some Donegal fiddlers worked at imitating the sound of the [[unused ...