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Originally Posted by rick-slo
Don't agree at all with the idea that Irish, folk, traditional music is non-western and has different concepts of harmony. The harmony is perhaps thinner than in some other music, but it's basic occidental harmony concepts. Also thinner harmony was what I meant by more linear, not anything directly due to the melody line.
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Ok, I interpreted you differently. My understanding, and what I meant, is that traditional irish (as well as lots of other traditional music) was/is often modal, and often actually had no harmony concept at all - everyone played the melody. Guitars were a rather non-welcome intrusion at sessions at first because they tended to force I-IV-V harmony on tunes, which sounded "wrong". That has been adressed in part by guitarists learning to play more modally, using DADGAD and Drop D for example.