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Flashcards by Holly Rankin, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Holly Rankin
about 12 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Fiddle | a violin that is referred to as a fiddle in Scottish Music |
| March | 2 beats per bar/4 beats per bar |
| Pipe Band | bagpipes and drums (snare and bass drums mainly) |
| Military band | consists of wind and brass instruments |
| Bagpipes contain.... | a drone |
| Double stopping | when you use more than 2 strings on a string instrument to create a chord |
| Vamp | an oom-cha baseline |
| Scots Snap | ta-daah |
| Accordion | Scottish musical instrument you compress and decompress to make a sound. Has a keyboard and buttons. |
| Major key | "Happy" key |
| Minor key | "Sad" key |
| Snare drum | one of the drums in a pipe band |
| Jig | 6/8 fast "riggety jiggety" |
| Compound time | two dotted crotchets- six quavers |
| Scottish dance band | consists of accordion, piano, double bass, drumkit and fiddle |
| Fiddle orchestra | an orchestra made up of fiddles accompanied by a rhythm section of double bass, piano etc. |
| Folk groups | a scottish music band in a traditional style with guitars |
| Folk rock | traditional music in a rock music style |
| Strathspey | In 4/4 quite slow, contains a Scots Snap |
| Reel | 4/4 fast dance |
| Binary form | Tune A and tune B. The piece contains two sections |
| Waltz | 3 beats per bar. A dance |
| Gaelic Psalms | One person leads the tune and everybody else follows |
| Waulking Song | you hear a constant beat (of the cloth) and a call and response |
| Mouth music | the voice imitates instrumental music |
| Scots Ballad | a song in strophic form that tells a story, usually about a disaster |
| Strophic form | the same music is repeated for every verse |
| Bothy Ballad | Solo voice sings the verse, everybody sings the chorus. Contains nonsense syllables. In strophic form. Was sung by farm workers. |
| Through-composed | Opposite of strophic form- no repetition |
| Pibroch | A very slow piece for the bagpipes which is very ornamented. |
| Arco | Use the bow on a string instrument. |
| Clarsach | a small scottish harp |
| Rondo | a musical form with a recurring leading theme, often found in the final movement of a sonata or concerto |
| Unison | Everybody sings the same thing |
| Harmony | when people sing different parts |
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