Once the beat gets going it really grooves: Informal music learning as experienced by two Irish traditional musicians

Abstract

The purpose of this ethnographic case study was to discover the manner in which two Irish musicians, Loretto Reid and Brian Taheny, taught/and or transmitted traditional music at the Celtic College Summer School in Goderich, Ontario. Two central questions, each followed by several sub-questions, served to focus the study: How did you learn Irish traditional music? and How do you teach Irish traditional music to adults? Several themes emerged from the analysis of the central and sub-questions, including a supportive family environment, listening and observing as key elements to musical learning, teaching holistically and music notation used as a memory aid and not as the primary learning tool. Information gleaned from this study is potentially valuable to public school music programmes.

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