With Irish mythology and music as the background, Song of the Sea has undoubtedly made great efforts from the picture to the music. It is an audio-visual feast, which is extremely wonderful... but also warm.
Popular Science: About Celtic Music
Celtic music is music from the Celts.
The Celts were originally some tribal groups that lived in Central and Western Europe around the first millennium BC. After a long migration, they came to England. Today, their descendants are scattered in Ireland, Wales, northern and western mountains of Scotland.
The Celts include the Irish, Scottish Highlanders, Welsh and Cornish, who are mostly bilingual - English and their native language (Gaelic or Celtic), unless textual or artefact research can prove them The most direct way is to listen to their music.
Celtic music includes Irish, Scottish and Welsh music.
When it comes to Celtic music, many people intuitively equate it with Ireland. In fact, it is not the patent of the Irish, just because the most successful artists or groups in this field are often from Ireland.
Compared with Irish music, which inherits most of the Celtic elements, it pays more attention to the exposition and unrestrainedness of emotion: Irish violin music concentrates this character trait: while Scottish music is rather reserved and inward, so it has the moving euphemism of Scottish bagpipes: Wales Music is not very obvious.
Traditional Celtic music has an unparalleled atmosphere of independence, which is the core image that Celtic music brings to people.
She has overlapping harmonies, legendary echoes, ethereal singing and distant choruses.
In terms of musical instruments, the most commonly used instruments in Irish music are the bagpipes and the harp. They cooperate with Celtic singing and flow with the same or figured out sound temperament. The melody of Celtic folk songs is in the medieval mode with few decorative tones. There are also fewer jumps; the melody has a sense of illusoryness and evanescence, with smooth development and simple maneuvers.
In addition, typical Celtic musical instruments include: whistle, violin, mandolin, boslan drum, etc.
In the 1970s, in order to revive traditional Irish folk music, artists who have been engaged in strong folk music began to gradually mix rock and pop elements into the original music.
In the core part of popular folk, the music follows the principles of popular, while there are not completely divorced from traditional forms.
Then in the 1990s, the new century Celtic music represented by Enyah and Clannad gradually flourished. Founded in Limerick, Ireland in the 1990s, The cranberries (The Cranberries or Cadbury), along with U2, Sinead O'Connor, Enya, etc., are regarded as the main force leading Irish music to the world.
To this day, Celtic music keeps adding new musical elements while maintaining the traditional form, so that it has more and more rich connotations.
(The above references to Baidu and various articles are for reference only)
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