. Ancient Irish music : comprising one hundred airs hitherto unpublished, many of the old popular songs, and several new songs. ^i^q:#^4=^d^ ^ = pcTiil. 22 iiiHifs. i^ LEFT HAND Slow, and with expression ^W^^zf^^r^^^^^T^^ -f^- i^: r-^-. 22 ANCIENT IRISH MUSIC. No. 21. In the same manner as languages are gradually changed by those who use theiu,so also it is with popular music. Great numbers of our airs have various settings aswe call them, which differ sometimes only very slightly, and sometimes so considerably,that one is occasionally in doubt whether they come from the same original, or are
. Ancient Irish music : comprising one hundred airs hitherto unpublished, many of the old popular songs, and several new songs. ^i^q:#^4=^d^ ^ = pcTiil. 22 iiiHifs. i^ LEFT HAND Slow, and with expression ^W^^zf^^r^^^^^T^^ -f^- i^: r-^-. 22 ANCIENT IRISH MUSIC. No. 21. In the same manner as languages are gradually changed by those who use theiu,so also it is with popular music. Great numbers of our airs have various settings aswe call them, which differ sometimes only very slightly, and sometimes so considerably,that one is occasionally in doubt whether they come from the same original, or are differentairs altogether. We may imagine that such changes were often the result of incorrecttransmission from one player or singer to another; while in other cases, they were madedeliberately as improvements, by fiddlers, pipers, or singers,—each change slight in itself—but without any intention of altering the whole into what might be called a differentmelody. And it is easy to understand, what indeed has not unfrequently happened, that inthis manner an air might in course of time, be altered gradually and almost insensibly,note by note as it were, so as ultimately to become nearly unrecognisable. But it will I think appea
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