Carolan's Draught and Lord Inchiquin, two tunes by Turlough O'Carolan, the blind 17th century harpist and composer. They are pleasant, undemanding and easy on the ear, like the European Rococo style fashionable in his day. The tunes consist mostly of scalic runs and imitative movement with the occasional intervallic leap. There is no sign of pentatonic modes, modular construction, or any cyclical element (apart from the AB structure) required in Gaelic music. The tunes are so long that they do not bear more than one repetition in performance, so there is no opportunity for variation. Carolan's Welcome and Carolan's Farewell to Music are more 'traditional-sounding', but that is only because they are in the Dorian mode, which is foreign to classical music but can be found in the folk music of every European country. O'Carolan may be Ireland's national composer but he was not a Gaelic composer. He had, however, a reputation as an entertaining and humorous companion, in which respect he was most Gaelic.