Skye Waulking Song Capercaillie

Skye Waulking Song Capercaillie

1. HARMONY/TONALITY

   • Cluster chord - notes all next to each other - opens the song
   • G major
   • Diatonic
   • 3 main chords G Em C
   • because the dominant chord is avoided, the music feels Modal

2. STRUCTURE

   • Call and Respose - 4 different phrases each lasting 1 bar
     • Phrase 1 - Call in Gaellic - starts high
     • Refrain 1 - response, vocables, starts mid range
     • Phrase 2 - call in Gaellic, starts low
     • Refrain 2 - response, vocables starts high
   • Intro
   • Verse 1
   • Verse 2
   • Instrumntal Break
     • based on refrain 2
   • Coda

3. MELODY

   • Pentatonic - 5 note scale
   • low register for voice - notated with tenor clef, sounds octave lower than printed
   • Syllabic
   • Alternates between 1 bar call and reponse
     • Call in Scots Gaellic
     • response using vocables
   • Instrumentalists
     • short melodies
     • countermelodies
     • based on vocal phrases

4. RHYTHMS

   • Syncopation in vocal melodies
   • Countermelodies instrumental
   • Cross-rhythms hi-hat at beginning, this changes when the full band enters to emphasise metre

5. METRE

   • 12/8
     • Compound quadruple time

6. TEXTURE

   • Layered Texture
     • Rhythmic Pattern
       • Drum Kit
     • Bass Line
       • Bass Guitar
     • Chords
       • Synthesiser and Accordion
     • Main Melody
       • Vocals
     • Counter melodies
       • Violin, Wurlitzer Piano, Uillieann Pipes, Bouzouki

7. INSTRUMENTATION

   • 3 unusual instruments
     • Wurlitzer piano (early electric piano
     • Uillieann Pipes - like bagpipes but softer
     • Bouzouki - lute from Greece