Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Capercaillie - Skye Waulking Song
- CONTEXT
- Waulking song - a work song
- Based on a Gaelic folk song -
'Folk music': Music of the people
- Passed on by an oral tradition
- Played at social gatherings
- Fusion of folk
music and
Western popular
music
- TEXTURE
- Interweaving
of melodies -
contrapuntal
- Hetraphonic - a decorated version
of the melody line, played
simultaneously with the melody
line.
- Mainly melody and accompaniment
- TONALITY
- E minor
- G major
- HARMONY
- Only 4 chords for the whole song:
- Chord sequence Em - G
- Verse 4 the chords change C-G-Em-g
- Verse 7 the chords change Am7-Em-Em-G
- Verse 8 the chords change back to C-G-Em-G
- INSTRUMENTS
- Combination of traditional folk instruments
and Western Pop instruments
- BOUZOUKI
- ACOUSTIC GUITAR
- VOCALS
- ACCORDIAN
- VIOLIN
- PIPES
- DRUMS
- WURLITZER PIANO
- BASS GUITAR
- SYNTH
- RHYTHM AND METRE
- 12/8 - 12 quavers in a bar
- The intro feels like it
might be in triple time (3
beats in a bar).
- STRUCTURE
- Intro - Verse 1 - Break - Verse 2
- Verse 3 - Verse 4 - Verse 5 -
Verse 6 - Instrumental - Verse 7 -
Verse 8 - Outro
- Mainly verses -
based on a
variant of the
melodic line
- DYNAMICS
- No written dynamics - dynamic
level changes with the amount of
instruments that are playing.
- MELODY
- Melody based on the E minor / G pentatonic
scale - (5 note scale) G, A, B, D, E
- Folk style melodies
- Vocal melody improvises - use of nonsense syllables