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Sourced or Silent · CC BY-SA 4.0In Irish traditional music, a slide (Irish: sleamhnán) is a tune type in 128 akin to, and often confused with, a single jig.
01 · What it is
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02 · Where & name
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03 · How it is doing
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What is slide in plain words?
In Irish traditional music, a slide (Irish: sleamhnán) is a tune type in 128 akin to, and often confused with, a single jig.
Where is slide practised or documented?
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What is the current condition of slide today?
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The tradition & historical record
1 min read · 1 sourceIn Irish traditional music, a slide (Irish: sleamhnán) is a tune type in 128 akin to, and often confused with, a single jig. Slides are played mostly in the Sliabh Luachra region of Munster province in southwest Ireland, but originate from quadrilles.
Though slides contain the same number of beats per tune as a single jig, melodies are phrased in four rather than two beats. Consequently, single jigs are notated as having eight bars per part and slides as having four bars. Furthermore, the pace is quicker than single jigs, often around 150bpm. While single jigs are often danced solo by step dancers, slides are usually danced in groups by set dancers, sometimes in sets with polkas.
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Slide (tune type)”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.
slide is tune type in Irish traditional music, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 1
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