{{short description|Musical genre}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} A '''slow air''' is a type of tune in Irish traditional music, marked by the absence of strict metre or structure, melodically "open ended" and generally derived from the melody of a sung song but instead played on a solo melodic instrument.<ref name="Vallely1999">{{cite book|author=Fintan Vallely|title=The Companion to Irish Traditional Music|url=https://archive.org/details/companiontoirish00vall|url-access=registration|date=1 September 1999|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-0-8147-8802-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/companiontoirish00vall/page/350 350]–}}</ref> The melodies are often drawn from the sean-nós solo singing tradition.<ref name="LornellRasmussen2016">{{cite book|author1=Kip Lornell|author2=Anne K. Rasmussen|title=The Music of Multicultural America: Performance, Identity, and Community in the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qc-tCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT70|date=4 January 2016|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-62674-609-1|pages=70–}}</ref>
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Category:Irish folk music
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