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14 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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What year was it released?
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2000
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What is the genre of the song?
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Celtic rock
A fusion of Celtic folk and western popular music |
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What is Waulking?
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A process formaking tweed fabric more flexible.
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What were waulking songs for?
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To help keep the female workers in time and make their work more enjoyable. One singer leads the song whilst everyone else joined in with vocables.
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Instrumentation
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Low female voice singing in Scots Gaelic
Folk instruments: -Accordian, fiddle, bouzouki, uillean pipes Western instruments: -Synthesizer, electric piano, bass guitar, drum kit |
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Tempo and rhythm
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58bpm
12/8 compound quadruple time Hi hat pattern creates cross rhythms which conflict with the pulse at the beginning. Frequent syncopation in the Melody lines. |
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Tonality
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Vocal melody uses a poentatonic scale E G A B D using notes which feeling to E minor and G major.
Opening section sounds closer to E minor due to the baseline and synth chord. When the gull band enters and the chords change, the music moves to G major. |
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Texture
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-Texture consists of many layers: mainvocal melody and counter melody played by the fiddle, electric piano, uillean pipes and bouzouki.
-The texture varies from full band to solo, unaccompanied voice. -Use of heterophony in the instrumental break where the uillean pipes and fiddle play two versions of the same melody together. |
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Melody
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Mainly syllabic text setting.
Melody uses the pentatonic scale E G A B D |
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Structure
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8 lines of text govern the structure
Tonality suggests 2 sections, with the 2nd starting where the full band enters. There is an intro, an outro and an instrumental break. |
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Harmony
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3 main chords used:
-Em and G alternate in the first section -A 4 bar chord sequence is used in the second section: C G Em G -Alternates with chords C and G at the end of the song. |
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Gaelic influences
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-Compound time signature
-Use of a refrain -The vocables after line of Gaelic -The narrative element, the song tells a story. |
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What album is it from?
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Nadurra
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2 other songs on the album?
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Rapture
The holly bush |
