The National Music Of The World

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	Music from the West. 205 to the Basque provinces of France, and to Scotland; a sort of ubiquitous musical creature. But the bagpipe was the military instrument in Ireland. Whereas the Welsh marches—vide the 'March of the Men of Harlech'—are harp tunes in grand common time, there is a sort of queer, odd, Rapparee humour in the Irish pipe marches. The following, reported to be very ancient, in g time, bears as a tune a close resemblance to the impassioned jig danced by a wild bare-legged pair, on the cabin door taken off its hinges, of which mention is to be found in the tales of Miss Edgeworth, Lady Morgan, and Griffin.