Capercaillie - Skye Waulking Song

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

Resource summary

	Created by lisaxoxo almost 11 years ago