Irish Folk Music Irish Folk music dates back to Celtic times. The most striking continuity in Irish music is that it still retains the same characteristics today as it did over the past 100 s of years. Many folk songs are composed in modes rather than in major or minor scales. Folk songs never contain key changes, although the occasional sharp or flat may be used in traditional performances Folk songs were composed by a known person or a group Folk songs have simple music forms .The same music is the same for each verse. Folk songs are never traditionally sung in strict tempo.
Folk songs are monophonic and traditionally sung without harmony.