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Skye Waulking Song
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10th Grade
10/19/2011

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Who is it by?
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Capercaille
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What language is the song sung in?
Definition
Scottish Gaelic
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What 2 genres are collaborated in this piece?
Definition
US Rock
British Folk
(folk-rock) 
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What instruments featured in the piece are:

i) US rock instruments
ii) British folk instruments 

Definition
i) synthesizer, bass guitar, drum kit
ii) voice, fiddle, accordian, Uillean pipes, Bouzouki 
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What does the title mean in English?
Definition
My Father sent me to a house of sorrow
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What is a waulking song?
Definition
Songs led by one person(telling gossip/news) with the others responding (with nonesense words) to keep the rhythm whilst beating tweed to make it waterproof/windproof.
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What is the time signature?
Definition
12/8- compound time 
feels like 6/4 in bass and drum kit creating cross rhythms in intro and verses 1-3
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What is the tonality?
Definition

E minor 

verses 1-3 = Em
verses 6-4 = C maj
verse 7 = Am
verse 8 = C maj

vocal tune based on pentatonic scale 

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tempo?
Definition
moderate- not marked on music
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Dynamics?
Definition
terraced (each section different)
Begins quietly
higher pitch = louder dynamics 
louder when full band playing 
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Technology?
Definition
synth
wurlitzer piano sound (created on another synth) 
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pitch?
Definition
Played/sung octave lower that written (voice bouzouki and wurlitzer piano)
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Rhythm?
Definition

cross rhythms at start (cos of time sig)

syncopation in vice du to rhythm of words- melysmatic (more that one note for one syllable)

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harmony? 
Definition

chord patterns: melody stays the same but is harmonised three ways

v1-3 = Em / G
v4-6, 8 = C / G / Em C / G

v7= Am9 / Em9 / Em C/ G 

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texture?
Definition
polyphonic at start
mostly homophonic from V4 
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musical features?
Definition

melodic devices: repetition, call and response between synth and bouzouki at start, improvised feel to violin, interplay between violin and pipes in V6 and outro

 

Cluster chord played on synth at start (all notes of chord close together on keyboard) 

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melody and form
Definition

main melody sung all the way through with slight variation in V4 6 + 8

each verse made different by different instruments, diff. chords, use of instrumental break, interplay between instruments and use of N.C. (no chord- backing stops)

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Structure?
Definition
Strophic song (multiple verses)
intro(instrumental)
v1-8 (short instrumentals in V 1 + 6) 
outro 
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instrumentation
Definition

*bouzouki sometimes picks, sometimes strums

*fiddle used more as a sound effect tha melody eg plays tremolando in intro - later plays in harmony with uillean pipes in V6 instrumental
*synth marked 'with modulation' at start = wobble 

*hi-hat played with brushes

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