Musical traditions in Ireland

Listen to the following track

• It's a jig

• It's a reel

• It's a hornpipe

• It's a slow air.

A Jig is in

This piece is

• A reel

• Strathspey

• Jig

• Slow air

Features of Scottish music include

• The Scotch Snap

• The falling 7th

• Gap scales

• Repeated notes

Listen to the following piece. Which instrument is playing the melody?

• Fiddle

• Bagpipes

• Accordion

• Banjo

The main melodic feature in this extract is the

This is an example of music from

• Donegal

• Leinster

• Galloway

• Waterford

The Scottish bagpipes are usually in the mixolydean mode, beginning on the note

• C

• B

• Bb

• A

This piece in an example of

• A jig

• A strathspey

• A Hornpipe

• A slow air

This piece is an example of a

• Jig

• Reel

• Slow Air

• Strathspey