I'm working at home today - I've got that sort of slightly unwellness that isn't sufficient to justify sickleave but reduces the impetus to actually getoutof the house.
I have a 3-CD compilation set on. Classical Gold, full of fairly serious music, none of this "Some geezer wrote this for an ad about five years ago so we're sure you'll enjoy it" crap.
So I was slightly surprised to hear a piece that sounded distinctively Oirish fiddledee. I checked on the CD cover and it turns out it's the Gigue bit of Pachabel's Canon and Gigue. Wow! exclaimed I. Pachabel was really O'Pachabel.
Then I thought a bit more. what does "Gigue" sound like? "Jig". I had a romantic notion that the roots of the Irish jig lay in far distant celtic, pagan roots, but it may be that it was just an import from 17th Century Continental Europe.
BTW, I am sick and tired of searching for music, or books or somesuch on Google, and being directed to a wholeload to a crappy sites that actually have no connection to the product they ostensibly sell, but are just trying to sell you credit, or cheap flights, or matters unthinkable. It is vastly reducing the usability of Google.
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