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Download here https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/irish-ceili-favourites-digital/id262546325?i=262547467 The Jig (Irish: port) is second in popularity only to the reel in traditional Irish dance, It is transcribed in compound meter, being 6/8 time. The most common structure of a jig is two eight-bar parts, performing two different steps, each once on the right foot, and one on the left foot. As with most other types of dance tunes in Irish music, at a session or a dance it is common for two or more jigs to be strung together in a set, flowing on without interruption. The Jig is a form of lively folk dance in compound meter, as well as the accompanying dance tune. It developed in 16th-century England, and was quickly adopted on the Continent where it eventually became the final movement of the mature Baroque dance suite The term jig was probably derived from the French giguer, meaning 'to jump' or the Italian giga. It was known as a dance in sixteenth-century England, often in 12/8 time, and the term was used for a post-play entertainment featuring dance in early modern England, but which 'probably employed a great variety of dances, solo (suitable for jigs), paired, round, country or courtly in Playford's Dancing Master (1651) 'the dance game in ‘Kemps Jegg’ is a typical scenario from a dramatic jig and it is likely that the combination of dance metre for steps and non-metrical passages for pantomime indicates how a solo or ensemble jig might have been danced by stage players. Later the dance began to be associated with music particularly in 6/8 time, and with slip jigs 9/8 time. The first images of 'Narrow Water Castle, Warrenpoint & Carlingford Lough' Courtesy of Conrad Madden Photography. http://www.conradmaddenphotography.com ©2015 blue dot music All Worldwide Rights Reserved. http://www.facebook.com/bluedotmusic Video created for blue dot music by Robert Nichol/Allcast http://www.allcast.co.uk