I've fallen down a sean nos rabbit hole in RU-vid, and all I have to say is "It's about damn time!" Of all the rabbit holes RU-vid has tried to drag me down (political, religious, right-leaning, left-leaning, "woke", anti-"woke", chauvinist, feminist, etc.) this is one I actually enjoy and doesn't try to get me to live on "hater-aid". I'm tired of the internet always trying to make me panic or get upset over everything and nothing. I welcome the peace and respite of this beautiful language and its music!
When you realize how many words loads of languages have a relatively recent common ancestral language. Then you go back further and further and you realize how universal our ideas are!
There's evidence that the Irish originally came by way of the Atlantic from Iberia and North Africa so this definitely fits in with that possibility that it's related.
And Galicians, the name itself is a hint and yet few know that they are Celts. My grandfather had red hair and blue eyes (rare combination) but was from Cuba and when he immigrated to Florida in the early sixties, then-Floridians couldn't wrap their mind around such a thing!
@Logan Ran interesting. My fathers side of the family are known as "black irish" from the west coast of ireland. Black hair, dark eyes and skin. I was reading about the celtic connection to Galicians in Northern Spain. Was Googling galician cultural festivals and saw pictures of people that closely resembled my aunts and uncles. I'm sold on that theory
Just stumbled on this looking up a reference in a Wikipedia article on Anne Briggs. (Sean Nos. What will RU-vid show me?) Just amazing, and Nell is so talented. The venue adds a lot too - the stone has great tone.
There's theories sean nós is musically related to middle eastern and north african/moorish music. obvs not indian but similar use of vocal inflection. Similar sounds can be heard in the celtic music of northern Spain (Asturias, Cantabria, Galicia), as well as in Portugal where there was historically a large north African Muslim population, which supports the theory
That's because we (people and/or music) are all more or less connected to each other. Ancient india definitely has connections to ireland, persia, ancient egypt, most of asia, most of europe, north africa, etc because the people who ruled or lived in those places for a long time were all the same people.
Sean Nos, Abanian folk music, Indian/Iranian music, etc etc, they all use a musical language of modality, where the melody is supported by notes interspersed between the melody notes, which all fall within a particular musical mode. This is rather than stacks or pillars of notes that give the melody different feeling (chords and keys, the language of tonality). Modal musical language was the norm in Europe in ancient times and in the medieval era. The language of tonality was an invention of the Renaissance, after which it became widespread except for the places where traditional folk music held strong (like in Ireland or Albania). So, rather than being taken from somewhere far away, it is part of a musical way that was once widespread but no longer is in Europe. That is why they feel similar. English secular music probably sounded pretty similar in the 10th century.
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Go hiontach ar fhad 🥰 ! Ha donet a ray Nell d'an Oriant evit ar Gouelioù Etrekeltiek 2023 (Blez Iwerzhon) ? Kontant-bras e vehen da selaou doc'hti eno ! Will Nell come to Lorient for the Interceltic Festival in 2023 (Ireland year) ? I would be so pleased to hear her here !
Enchanting Nell. It must be the beautiful language on Earth. Atlantic, to fall. I’d like to compose arrangements for songs in the Goidelic language, as a Cru I must learn it and Welsh before the bails fall and I go to the Pavilion in the Pits Hades, I’m kidding but it’s not my choice. It such beautiful language. It stirs something deep within me I don’t really understand just like Australian forests are beautiful but don’t really seem green to me. They are very much improvised variations on a figured bass harmonically not unlike an improvised Keen like Paiscaille. It reminds me of Weiss’ lute music in places; but he couldn’t make his Theorbo courses do that. Hauntingly beautiful Nell ( My great Aunt was a Nell, from Hackney who worked in the British Post Tower in London and her father was T.W. Connor. Thomas Widdicombe Connor who was a Victorian/Edwardian Music Hall composer of some repute that even had success in the USA. BEFORE THE BEATLES ate the poisoned Apple. Money alway takes more than it gives but few see it. Cuthbert noticed. Old Tommy wasn’t Gilbert and Sullivan or Ralph Vaughan Williams, but he had a knack and we loved him. Thank you Nell.
Nice Nell Ní Chróinín speaking - Irish accent. Kind of disappeared now (well not Cork, Kerry..) - so much US, British TV. My Irish family still in Ireland when I return accents totally neutral.
That is beautiful, as an Englishman it makes me sad that our own cultural heritage is seen as something to be discarded. Perhaps I’m drawn to the Irish and Welsh language and music because of a small amount of my shared DNA (9 and 10% respectively) that I have. You need to keep your own culture and customs and never give them up as the English are so happy to do😢
