Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Capercaillie: Skye Waulking song
- Instrumentation and Texture
- The layered texture
- ryhthmic pattern on the drum kit
- A bass line played by the bass guitar
- Chords on the synthesiser
and accordion
- Main melogy sung by voice
- Countermelodies on the other melody instruments
- The three most instruments
- Wurliter piano - a types of early electric piano
- Uilleann pipes - like the bagpipes but with a softer tone
- Bouzouki - a tyoes of lute that comes form Greece
- Structure
- There four different phrases
- Phrase 1: call( in Gaslic, 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
- Melody
- pentatonic (based on a five note scale)
- it uses a low register of the voice
- It mainly syllabic
- the instrumentation plays a short motifs
- Metre
- the song is notated in 12/8 (compound quadruple
metre)
- Rhythm
- It start of the song the hi - hat pattern creates cross rhythms. When the full band enters
the hi - hat pattern changes
- Harmony
- the song is in G major
- The three main chords are G, Em and C
- the dominant chord is D so avoided, the music
has a modal feel