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Celtic music is a popular term that refers to the traditional music of the people of Atlantic Europe: Ireland (Éire) Scotland (Alba) Wales (Cymru), Cornwall (Kernow), Isle of Mann, Brittany (Breizh), Asturias and Galicia, sometimes with mixed patterns of medieval music.

The musical instruments that are to characterize the accordion, the concertina to harp, the acoustic guitar, the Irish bouzouki to Irish flute the fiddle, the bodhrán the whistles to bombarda Breton and especially the protagonist always bagpipe bellows.

There are several sub-types of "Celtic music". The term "Celtic" can refer to musical compositions based on standards of the people of medieval Europe's Atlantic coast (in the music folk Galician highlight this sub-type the piper Carlos Núñez or Moonlight in Lubre ) may also refer to popular music and the Popular songs of these people (in the Galician case is the best representative of Mercedes Peon ), or you can refer to spiritual music (the Irish Enya is representative of the style that enjoys more international recognition).

Celtic music encompasses a wide spectrum of musical genres, which have evolved by the traditions and folk music of the Celtic peoples of Western Europe. The term Celtic music may be related to both the traditional music that the orally transmitted folk music with some superficial similarities to folk styles of the peoples of Celtic ancestry. Celtic music is a popular music, folk music can also be called secular and sacred music was written as either caught but passed down orally.

Some common aspects of the character, such as the Celtic music dances are jigs (very ancient dances once common in many parts of Europe), reel (dances very fast), slip jig (dance ballads usually by girls only), hornpipe (dances rhythmic dances derived from seafood), Strathspey (lively Scottish dance), polkas and air (slow melodies).

A recent example of this is the film music of Howard Shore in Peter Jackson's film trilogy The Lord of the Rings. In the film itself is the fantasy world of Tolkien laced with Celtic and Germanic elements. Musically, this is even more supported, partly because of the contribution of the Irish group Enya, but also because of the employed in the movie dance music, which is an Irish idiom to recognize.

Celtic music is the collection of music, which comes from the traditional folk music from countries or regions where a Celtic language speaks or has spoken recently. Sometimes the northern Spanish Galicia and Asturias also counted among the Celtic areas, although the spoken vernacular is not Celtic, but is related to the Portuguese. It is one of mythological (with a connection to Ireland) and archaeological sites, which one is linked. A Celtic identity in these regions.

One of the oldest instruments, which is associated with the Celtic culture in context, the harp, although it is considered that they initially made ​​use of the plausible winch or windlass like instruments. Around 480 AD, the harp by missionaries brought to Brittany. In Ireland and Scotland, and was initially subscribed for the instrumental music used metal strings of the harp that was provided, from bronze, brass, silver and even gold alloys in Wales.

The current instrument, which is popular Celtic harp (lever harp) or folk harp is called is actually a copy of this Gaelic harp, but has called parentheses to change. tones of the strings chromatic The Cláirseach not had this feature and was actually a diatonic instrument.

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