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Capercaillie - Skye Waulking Song
- Instrumentation and
Texture
- Layered texture throughout
- Drum Kit - Rhythmic
pattern
- Bass Guitar - Bass Line
- Synthesiser and Accordion - Chords
- Voice -
Main
Melody
- Countermelodies - Violin, Wurlitzer piano, Uilleannn pipes and Bouzouki
- Three Unusual Instruments
- Wurlitzer Piano - early type of electric piano
- Uilleann pipes -
bagpipes but with a
softer tone
- Bouzouki - lute from greece
- Wurlitzer Piano - early type of electric piano
- N.C - no chord - accompaniment drops out
- 'With modulation' means modulation applied to the synth chord - makes
pitch fluctuate slightly ( vibrato)
- Cluster Chord - opens song - a chord whose notes are all next to eachother
- Layered texture throughout
- Structure
- Vocal Line alternates between 4 different phrases, each lasting 1
bar, in a call and response pattern
- Phrase 1: call (in gaelic, starts on high D)
- Refrain 1: response (vocables, starts on mid B)
- Phrase 2: call (in Gaelic, starts on low D)
- Refrain 2: response (vocables, starts on a high E)
- Phrase 1: call (in gaelic, starts on high D)
- 1. Introduction: an instrumental section, after which
he voice enters with the first line of text
- 2. Verse 1: voice and accompaniment
- 3. Verse 2: voice and accompaniment- includes a instrumental break
- 4. Coda: short vocal phrases echo the end of
refrain 1, after which the accompaniment fades
out
- Vocal Line alternates between 4 different phrases, each lasting 1
bar, in a call and response pattern
- Melody
- Vocal Melody
- penatonic - based on 5 note scale
- lower register - soloists part in vocal tenor clef - music sounds
an octave lower than printed
- mainly syllabic
- Alternates between one bar phrases in Gaelic (the call) and
phrases that use vocables (the response)
- Gaelic is a language spoken in parts of Scotand
- Vocables are nonsense syllables
- penatonic - based on 5 note scale
- Instumentalists
- short motifs and countermelodies based on vocal phrases
- main instrumental break, based on refrain 2
- short motifs and countermelodies based on vocal phrases
- Vocal Melody
- Rhythm and Metre
- 12/8 - compound quadruple time
- frequent syncopation
- at the start of the song the hi-hat creates cross rhythms. When the full band
enters the hi-hat rhythm changes and more clearly emphasises 12/8
- 12/8 - compound quadruple time
- Harmony
- G major
- enirely diatonic
- Three main chords are : G, Em and C
- Dominant Chord D is avoidedd
- has a modal feel
- G major
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