Best books about ethnic music according to redditors

We found 4 Reddit comments discussing the best books about ethnic music. We ranked the 2 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

1. A Harvest Saved (Text)

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A Harvest Saved (Text)
A Harvest Saved: Francis O'Neill And Irish Music In Chicago Music Sales America Series This Highly Illustrated Study Details Daniel Francis O'neill's Extraordinary Career And His Crucial Role In The Preservation And Dissemination Of Irish Traditional Music And Contains Newly Discovered Information O...
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2. Old-Time String Band Songbook

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Old-Time String Band Songbook
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Top Reddit comments about Ethnic Music:

u/Xenoceratops · 22 pointsr/musictheory

The music in that link is some garbage. The Irish ("Celtic") part:

  • Diatonic melodies.
  • Dorian, mixolydian, major, and minor modes. (These may also exist as pentatonic or hexatonic "gapped" variants.)
  • Parallel periods.
  • Repeated binary form (ABAB).
  • Traditional instruments: fiddle, whistle, uilleann pipes, concertina.
  • Meter. You're probably latching onto the compound meter stuff. Some of these rhythms are not really a part of that music, though. The rhythms are traditionally categorized by the type of dance they accompany (e.g., reel, hornpipe, jig, slip jig, slide, polka, mazurka), and meter is one component of that.

    The not-so-Irish part:

  • All the other shit. Irish trad music is very melody-forward, and moreover tends to be heterophonic. Homophony and polyphony are foreign European elements.

    You might try lurking around at The Session. Lots of Irish/English/Scottish/Welsh trad players over there.

    Also read these:

    Nicholas Carolan - A Harvest Saved: Francis O'Neill and Irish Music in Chicago

    Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin - O'Brien Pocket History of Irish Traditional Music
u/javajunkie327 · 1 pointr/banjo

https://www.amazon.com/Old-Time-String-Songbook-Hally-Stephenson/dp/0825601797