Show CE CELTIC LT IC manifestations the joy jay and sor sorrow we of the irish as aa expressed in their music in the irish dirges and laments there is great simil similarity artty to the music of the west 11 highlands 1 only the irish musio having been written in most instances for the harp which has all the notes of the voice is a music mus ic of f full and sweet harmonies and has not the omissions and deficiencies of the pentatonic scale ecale in in which all music for the pipes pipea was written while the melancholy of the celtic people finds inadequate expression in these laments plaintive wail in pairs something between recitative and melody another and not less characteristic act side of the irish temperament is very truthfully illustrated in their songs of humor about these says the saturday ite he view there thera is an inimitable raciness a fresh and sparkling spa riding wit a spontaneous r ring of chaff and fun with w h a dash of chivalrous sentiment and ar an airy lightness n which give to them the e unmistakable mis hibernian accent and to which there is no exact counter counterpart aart in the songs of england or scotland |