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Created by izzykersley01
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Skye Waulking Song - Capercaillie
- Waulking
- Name given to the process of pounding tweed cloth - work
women undertook by hand in Scotland in the 1950s
- Waulking songs helped women to work in time
with each other and call-and-response was used
- Name given to the process of pounding tweed cloth - work
women undertook by hand in Scotland in the 1950s
- Album: Nadurra
- Released in 2000
- The text from this song is taken from a long
lament called 'John, Son of the King of Ireland'
- Released in 2000
- Instrumentation and Texture
- Layered texture
- Rhythmic pattern
on drum kit
- Bass line played by bass guitar
- Chords on synthesiser and accordion
- Main melody sung by voice
- Countermelodies played by other instruments
- Fiddle, Wurlitzer piano (electric piano), uileann
pipes (similar to bag pipes) and bouzouki (a
type of lute that comes from Greece)
- Fiddle, Wurlitzer piano (electric piano), uileann
pipes (similar to bag pipes) and bouzouki (a
type of lute that comes from Greece)
- Rhythmic pattern
on drum kit
- In the score:
- 'N.C' means 'no chord' - accompaniment drops out
- 'With modulation' means that modulation is applied to
the synthesiser chord, making the pitch fluctuate.
- A cluster chord opens the song - a chord
whose notes are all next to each other
- A cluster chord opens the song - a chord
whose notes are all next to each other
- 'N.C' means 'no chord' - accompaniment drops out
- Layered texture
- Structure
- Four different phrases (each lasting for
1 bar) in a call-and-response pattern
- Phrase 1: call (in Gaelic, starts on a high D)
- Refrain 1: response (vocables, starts on a mid B)
- Phrase 2: call (in Gaelic, starts on a low D)
- Refrain 2: response (vocables, starts on a high E)
- Phrase 1: call (in Gaelic, starts on a high D)
- Overall structure:
- 1) Introduction: an instrumental
section, after which the voice enters
- 2) Verse 1: voice and accompaniment
- 3) Verse 2: voice and accompaniment (includes instrumental break)
- 4) Coda: short vocal phrases echo the end of refrain
1, after which the accompaniment fades out
- 1) Introduction: an instrumental
section, after which the voice enters
- Four different phrases (each lasting for
1 bar) in a call-and-response pattern
- Melody
- Pentatonic
- Low register voice
- Mainly syllabic
- Alternates between one-bar phrases in Gaelic
(call) and phrases that use vocables (response)
- Instrumentalists play short motifs and
countermelodies based on the vocal phrases
- Pentatonic
- Rhythm and Metre
- Compound quadruple metre: 12/8
- Frequent syncopation
- Hi-hat pattern creates cross rhythms at the start. When the full
band enters, it changes and more clearly emphasizes 12/8
- Compound quadruple metre: 12/8
- Harmony
- G major
- Diatonic
- Three main chords: G, Em and C
- The dominant chord is avoided,
giving the music a modal feel
- G major
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