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Originally Posted by Doug Young
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.
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I enjoyed early choral music growing up. My mother was a choir director in a very large church and we had lots of recordings of more choral music playing at home. The slightly haunting quality (to my ears) of many of those pieces attracts me very much. As far as playing this type of music on the guitar I don't think there is much out there where harmony (modal tonal center, or otherwise) is totally absent.