Celtic tunes

Gaelic folk music

Celtic tunes are traditional melodies from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, and other Celtic regions.

The phrase typically evokes fiddle reels, jigs, and folk songs with distinctive ornamentation and modal scales.

The pub session featured Celtic tunes late into the night.

The term appears frequently in music marketing, sometimes stretching to include any vaguely Irish-sounding melody.

Related
  • jigSpirited folk dance
  • slip jigIrish dance in 9/8
  • fiddleAdjust restlessly; folk violin
  • BretonBrittany's Celtic language
  • reelWinding cylinder or dance

ceilidh · bodhrán · Manx · Gaelic · Cornish · Irish · harp · pub session · Scottish · lament · Danny Boy · modal · concertina · pentatonic · hornpipe · step dancing · ballad · march

Opposites
musical tradition/ethnicity

Celtic tunesAfrican drumming

Indigenous percussive tradition

Middle Eastern music

musical formality/structure

Celtic tunessymphonies

Extended compositions for orchestra

opera · symphonic music · chamber music · art music · orchestral arrangements

acoustic character/instrumentation

Celtic tuneselectronic music

Synthesizer-based musical genre

EDM · techno · electronic dance music · industrial music · computer-generated music

Family

tune, tunes, Celtic, Celt

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G