fiddle tune

Barn dance music

A fiddle tune is a melody composed or adapted for fiddle, typically in folk, bluegrass, or traditional styles.

These tunes are often lively and rhythmic, designed for dancing: jigs, reels, hornpipes, breakdowns.

She learned a new fiddle tune at the festival.

Many fiddle tunes have been passed down through oral tradition for generations.

Related

country dance · bow · rosin · strings · bluegrass · Appalachian · Irish · Celtic · barn dance · square dance · dance hall · old-time · old time music · melody · sawing · twang · stomp · clogging

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Opposites
musical formality and tradition

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Solo strings with orchestra

symphony · art music · chamber music · sonata · classical music

musical complexity and structure

fiddle tunesymphony

Extended composition for orchestra

tone poem · oratorio · concerto · opera · grand opera

Family

fiddle, tune, fiddler, fiddling, fiddled, fiddles, tunes, tuned, tuning

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Top 500,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G