Ceòl Beag

Ceol Ceol - beag beag or (. Gaelic "little music ", also Ceol aotrom " light music ", English mostly "light music" ) refers to - as opposed to the " great music ", the Piobaireachd - play with your constant rhythm and tempo dance - and marching music for the Scottish bagpipes ( Great Highland Bagpipe). It is unclear whether it is a traditional term. Anyway, he is - in contrast to ceol mor - rare and almost only used in writing.

To ceol beag include marches (quick marches ) and Strathspeys, reels, jigs and hornpipes.

Ceol Meadhonach or Ceol - Meadhonach (Gaelic "average music " ) is, in contrast, the freer rhythmic music of the song, that is mainly played on the bagpipes slow airs.

One sees as key differentiator for ceol beag their functional character - the purpose of movement ( marching or dance ) to accompany - so you can also include other forms of music to ceol Meadhonach, for example, the competition type marches, technically demanding pieces (usually ) are, however, not only played the sake of music for marching.

The assignment of jigs is not as clear. If you look jigs as dance music (which nowadays clearly true ), so they belong to the ceol beag. If you see it as something else (which they previously may have been ), they belong to ceol Meadhonach. Seumas MacNeill, for example, sees Jigs originally as finger exercises, the Piper, as there is no tradition of jigs as a dance is in Scotland ( " Jigs probably originated of basically as exercises for the fingers, for there is no tradition of the Scottish jig as a dance - Certainly not in the Highlands. " )

The term ceol Meadhonach is even less historically beag as ceol. It was coined probably only by Captain John Campbell and Archibald Campbell, a collection of slow airs under the title "The Kilberry Book of Ceol Meadhonach " published 1909. This collection includes slow airs (for example, "Fear a ' Bhata ", "The dung -covered mountains" ), slow marches ( " Lochaber no more" ) and retreat marches ( "When the battle is over", "The green hills of Tyrol " ), but no jigs.

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