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The Celtic Baroque roots of 'Stairway to Heaven'

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Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738) knew how to combine traditional Irish music with Italian Baroque that was the preferred choice of the high society at that time. The repetition of short motifs as well as the particular way of building tension reveal O'Carolan's knowledge of the leading styles in the Baroque era. His experiments with harp music influenced a whole new genre, as it were: the Celtic Classics.

 

The Celtic Baroque roots of 'Stairway to Heaven'

 

 

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On 5/28/2018 at 3:38 AM, fasstrack said:

Your link is broken, dude...

 

thanks!

just fixed

some hosting problems

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Thank you for sharing your work, I just had a simple problem finding any video sample of combined Irish music with Italian baroque.

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