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CHOICE SONGS FOR MUSIC
Category- Irish Traditional Songs
Title:An raicín Álainn
Composer: Unknown, Performer – Lasairfhíona Ní Chonaola
Song Type: Love song about a man who falls in love with a
woman, leaves(with her comb-raicín), she longs for his return.
Traditional Features:
-Jig Rhythm 6/8
-In Irish
-Repeated Notes
Non Traditional
Features:
-Accompanied by guitar and fiddle
Keywords: Macaronic Songs – songs in both irish and english, Sean-ós, Ornamentation.
Category:
Folk Songs from Other Countries
Title:
The Jamaican Farewell
Song
type: Folk Song in Calypso Style, can be sung as a quodlibet
with Island in the Sun
Features:
Repeated
Notes
8/8
time signature – Calypso – 3+3+2
Syncopated
Rhythm
Keywords:
Quodlibet- when two songs can be sung together.
Category:
Songs Composed by the Great Masters
Title:
The trout (Die Forelle)
Composer:
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Song
Type: A Lied – A german art song for solo singer with piano
accompaniment. The accompaniment highlights the meaning of the text
and reflects the mood.
Features:
Sextuplets
in piano = fish darting in the water
Changes
to minor when he catches the fish (verse 3)
Triadic
Melody
Category: Historical and Modern Ballads
Title: The fields of Athenry
Composer: Pete St John
Song Type: A historical Ballad which tells the story of a man
who is exiled to Australia for stealing during the famine
Features:
Repeated Notes
Dotted Rhythm
Syncopation on the word
'Michael'
Keywords: A ballad is a song that tells a story.
Historical- story happened in
the past
Modern – Comment on issues e.g
homelessness
Category:
Popular Songs including Negro Spirituals, Jazz and Blue Songs
Title:
Saints and Sinners
Composer:
Paddy Casey
Song
Type: Pop Song
Features:
Verse
chorus structure
Syncopated
Rhythm
Unusual
phrase lengths in chorus
Keywords:
Vamping is improving a simple chorus accompaniment on a
keyboard instrument
Category:
Accompanied and Unaccompanied Vocal church music and carols
Title:
May the Road Rise to Meet You
Composer:
Unknown, words-traditional Irish blessing
Song
type: Hymn
Features:
Stepwise
melody in the refrain
Descant
part in the refrain
Some
syncopation in the verses
Category:
Songs from operas, operettas, stage musicals, etc.
Title:
Maybe from Annie
Composer:
Charles Strouse
Song
Type: From the musical Annie - song about Annie's parents and
her hopes that one day they will take her away from the orphanage
Features:
Opening
melody is triadic
Wide
Range of Notes
Syncopation
in B section
Keywords:
Recitative – a type of singing in which the words are more
important than the melody
Category:
Songs involving simple descants, ostinati, rounds and canons
etc.
Title:
Three Blind Mice
Composer:
Unknown – nursery rhyme
Song
type: Round
Features:
12/8
time signature
Repeated
Notes
Singing
it as a round gives it polyphonic texture
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