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  • In the ancient Celtic epic The Ulster Cycle, the Morrígan (a Celtic ... quot;keen," a lament at their funeral. Music in those times was often ...
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  • equinox. Lughnasadh is one of the four Celtic seasonal festivals; along ... Since the latter twentieth century, Celtic neopagans have observed Lughnasadh ...
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  • Gospel music is a genre of mostly American music characterized by ... and even the definition of Gospel music varies according to culture ...
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  • social science. He wrote on the local laws, music, literature, botany, and ... related, in turn, to Gothic and the Celtic languages, as well as to Persian. ...
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  • involving supernatural and fairy-world Celtic motifs. The word "lay ... century, we know of earlier lais of Celtic origin, perhaps more lyrical ...
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  • ===Celtic music=== [[Image:Tinwhistles.jpg|thumb|left|150 px|Tinwhistles]] ... Celtic music may denote Breton or Galician music in addition to Irish ...
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  • The Ossian cycle would influence Romantic music as well as literature. ... worthlessness as a transcript of actual Celtic poems do not alter the fact ...
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  • produced by striking metal bars. In blues music, the harmonica is often casually ... As European harps evolved to play more complex music, a key consideration ...
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  • communities to form a culture rich in both music and tradition. From 1763 ... violin style which falls within the Celtic music idiom. Cape Breton Island ...
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  • , Apellōn) was the god of light, truth, archery, music, medicine ... of herds and flocks and the patron of music and poetry. More importantly ...
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  • ==Dublin and the Celtic Revival== In 1901, Moore returned to Ireland ... legacy would be his contributions to the Celtic Revival, especially the rise ...
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  • addition to the team had renewed the promise of Celtic glory. ... Finals to the Houston Rockets. The 1986 Celtic team, which finished the ...
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  • on Sixth Avenue, across from Radio City Music Hall. Arnold coined the nickname ... $10,00 deal to take over the reigns as the Celtic's coach, and it was ...
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  • engraving, painting, body ornamentation, music, and the painstaking decoration ... Vulgar Latin *crosus (not attested), from a Celtic root. ...
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  • and Bray and studied piano, flute, violin, music theory and counterpoint at ... musician and went to Germany to study music. He stayed at Coblenz in ...
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  • is believed to have been invented by the Celtic people in Eastern Europe ... a myth probably originating from an English music hall comedy of the 1830s ...
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  • Karen Ralls-MacLeod and Ian R. Robertson, The Quest for the Celtic ... name "Rosslyn" comes from two Celtic words: "Ros," meaning ...
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  • been joined by tourism, technology, film, music, and finance. ... of the major international centers for Celtic music. In main land Nova Scotia ...
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  • that study the way cultures utilize music). A didgeridoo is usually ... The didgeridoo has also found a place in modern Celtic music. It can ...
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  • by the title of his 1893 collection The Celtic Twilight, all which tended ... Revival” (otherwise known as the “Celtic Revival”). ...
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