Introduction: Does Irish Folk Music and Traditional Mongolian
Music sound similar?
Well, in
order to determine whether they do sound similar, I will analyze the
similarities and differences. In
order to determine the similarities and differences, I will investigate the
compositional features in both pieces.
The compositional features will include duration, pitch, tone color,
texture, dynamics, and form. I
will focus on one pair of an Irish Folk song to a Traditional Mongolian
song. These groups are from two different cultures, one from the East and the other from the West. The Mongolian Traditional Music is from the East, while the Irish Folk Music is from the West. The Irish Folk song I chose
is called Steren by a band called Gwendal. The Traditional Mongolian song comes from the group called Khatan
Ekh Ensemble.
