GCSE Music Release by Afro Celt Sound System
- Created by: 16wrighte
- Created on: 09-04-19 16:48
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- Release - Afro Celt Sound System
- Dynamics
- volume increases after 1st verse
- music fades out at end
- Dynamics increase with layers
- Rhythm/tempo/metre
- free time at beginning
- Steady tempo after beginning BPM=100
- steady 4/4 from Dance all the way through
- African Drum rhythms are repeated
- they are syncopated, swung ostinatos
- Creates poly-rhythms
- Technology
- Drone at begining
- contains a filter sweep
- played by synths
- drum machine eventually joins
- reverb throughout
- Drone at begining
- Structure
- Strophic Structure
- intro starts with a long drone and main melody on drum enters
- first verse is female English vocal music builds
- links into male Gaelic verse with a flute flourish
- Ulileann pipes improvise around melody, tin whistel and flute added. male and drums come back
- female vocal and pipes, then male part sings repetition
- vocals and harp repeats as music fades
- female vocal and pipes, then male part sings repetition
- Ulileann pipes improvise around melody, tin whistel and flute added. male and drums come back
- links into male Gaelic verse with a flute flourish
- first verse is female English vocal music builds
- Melody
- lots of improvisation from drums and pipes
- pentatonic scale used
- mainly syllabic
- vocalisation over instruments
- ornaments used
- conjunct
- Instrumentation
- Celtic:
- Hurdy gurgy
- Ullieann pipes
- fiddle
- bohdran
- tin whistel
- accordian
- tin whistel
- bohdran
- fiddle
- Ullieann pipes
- Hurdy gurgy
- African
- Kora
- talking drum
- Western
- synths
- samples
- drum machine
- Celtic:
- Texture
- Constantly changes as music builds
- mainly homophonic
- Hetero-phonic in outro
- mainly homophonic
- layering
- Constantly changes as music builds
- Harmony
- Diatonic
- Some chromaticism
- repetitive chords
- C minor
- Modal
- Diatonic
- Dynamics
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