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skye waulking song
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- 1date2000
- 2background (waulking)waulking is the process of pounding tweed cloth → show in the song by the strong beat, call and response and female singer
- 3background (2)scottish band
from a lament → shown in the song by the slow tempo and falling phrases - 4styleCeltic fusion
- 5instrumentation (4)mixture of folk and pop instruments
Folk instruments: bouzouki (lute), uilleann pipes, fiddle, accordion
Pop instruments: drum kit, Wurlitzer piano, acoustic and bass guitars
lead vocalist and backing vocals - 6texture (3)starts with synth chord → thin texture
parts layered through countermelodies
mostly polyphonic but is heterophonic in the instrumental - 7dynamicsquiet at the start
dynamics increase as parts come in
mainly mf for most of piece
fades away at the end - 8harmony (6)starts with cluster chord
repeated chord sequence
main chords are G and Em
extended chords e.g. Am9
only G and C in outro
diatonic harmony - 9structure (5)introduction: an instrumental section
2 verses
instrumental break
coda
uses call and response - 10melody (4)vocal melody: is pentatonic,
uses a low register of the voice,
mainly syllabic, uses vocables
instruments play short motifs and countermelodies based on the vocal phrases - 11rhythm and metre12/8 (typical of a folk song)
frequent syncopation in the vocal line
at the start of the song, the hi-hat creates cross rhythms
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