Accepted chords for traditional tunes

Subject: RE: Accepted chords for traditional tunes
From: The Sandman
Date: 02 Apr 09 - 01:22 PM

you are quite right ,Marje,and it is hardly surprising that Irish and English music are so close.
A brief look at history,reveals that Ireland was ruled by England until 1921,and part of Ireland is stillpart of the UK,this probably explains a lot.
some Irish people do not realise,that England has any other traditional music other than Morris dancing and shanties,but then a lot of English people have no knowledge or respect for their own musical heritage,either.

Subject: RE: Accepted chords for traditional tunes
From: Jack Campin
Date: 02 Apr 09 - 01:44 PM

Some Irish musicians are honest about the connection. Look at Alois Fleischmann's "Sources of Irish Traditional Music".

Subject: RE: Accepted chords for traditional tunes
From: The Sandman
Date: 02 Apr 09 - 02:06 PM

But ,I doubt if the author of that piece on the session is even Irish,most of the people that contribute to the discussions are not either irish,or living in Ireland.Quite alot of them are not irish but have certain fixed ideas about Irish music.

Subject: RE: Accepted chords for traditional tunes
From: Marje
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 04:31 AM

Oh, I bet the guy who wrote that piece has an Irish granny. Doesn't everyone in the US have an Irish relative? And yet hardly anyone has English antecedents. Funny, that.

But it's true what you say, Dick, the English are partly to blame for the way they're so often air-brushed out ofthe picture - they often contribute to this themselves.

Marje

Subject: RE: Accepted chords for traditional tunes
From: Smokey.
Date: 02 Sep 11 - 06:27 PM

If in doubt, stick to only what chords could be formed on a diatonic harp and work outwards from that if necessary.

Subject: RE: Accepted chords for traditional tunes
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 02 Sep 11 - 06:44 PM

I'm surprised to find myself on here, in that I generally don't do tunes as such.

What does appear somewhat threatening, however, is that at Tenterden John Barden is double booked with a (well deserved but it should be higher up the bill) concert slot as well as chairing the English tunes session in the Lion - so for maybe half an hour I may be "in charge". This thread makes me more determined than ever simply to say "Here we are: you get on with it!"