Capercaillie- Skye Waulking Song
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- Created on: 09-05-13 12:24
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- Capercaillie- Skye Waulking Song
- Rhythm
- Shaker and hi-hat paly every 2 beats giving rhythm- triple feel
- Vocal lilting rhythm
- Second and fifth beats are emphasised by accordian in instrumental
- Melody
- Melodic line played in folk style instruments improvise around a melody
- "Waulking" song tradition heard in use of vocables between each line and repetition of each line of verse
- Tonality & Harmony
- Vocals sung using E minor, Pentatonic (G major)
- Simple harmony- four chords
- Intro- Em, G
- Verse 4- C, G, Em, G
- Verse 7- Am7, Em, Em, G
- Verse 8- C, G, Em, G
- Outro- G, G
- Tempo
- Slow and calm
- 12/8
- Form & Structure
- Intro
- Verse1
- Break
- Verse 2
- Verse 3
- Verse 4
- Verse 5
- Verse 6
- Instrumental
- Verse 7
- Verse 8
- Outro
- Verse 8
- Verse 7
- Instrumental
- Verse 6
- Verse 5
- Verse 4
- Verse 3
- Verse 2
- Break
- Verse1
- Intro
- Instrumentation
- Accordian, piano, synth
- Flutes, whistle, uilleann pipes
- Vocals
- Acoustic and electric bass
- Fiddle
- Bouzouki, guitar, bodhran, vocals
- Drums and percussion
- Texture
- Heterphonic texture- perform similar melodic line together
- Accompanied texture
- Facts about Set work
- Oral tradition
- Gaelic dialect
- Released in 2000
- Vocables
- Call and response
- "My father sent me to the house of sorrow"
- Rhythm
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