Traditional Irish singing

For this post, I decided to take a piece from my own homeland and to talk about traditional Irish singing! The word in the Irish lanuage used to describe an Irish song is called a Sean-nós which means ''Old style''. This kind of Irish muisc is unaccompaied and is described by Tomás Ó Canainn as

''...a rather complex way of singing in Gaelic, confined mainly to some areas in the west and south of the country''

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Most Sean-nós songs can be quite simple or others can be very long with different classic with different harmomic melodies. These songs were written to describe and document the labor inside and outside the working home, to display certain feelings, and to record historic events in time or to remember lost family members. In order to sing sean-nós songs, you have to have a deep level of emotion and connection with the audience in order for the song to be convinced. There is also a type of traditional Irish dancing which is also known as ''sean-nós''.

The earliest found script for a sean-nós song was recorded from the 16th century. Elizabeth I had an English copy of sean nós music and soon then were recorded and written down close to the 18th century.

sources:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean-n%C3%B3s_song