Kate Bush-Hounds of Love 0.0 / 5 ? MusicSet WorksA2/A-levelEdexcel Created by: Hannah.SpencerCreated on: 28-03-21 16:01 Introduction No musical training-but trained in dance and music First British artist to top the charts with Wuthering Heights Songs are often inspired by literary or historical sources Electric music routes Hounds of Love: composed, performed and self-produced in her home recording studio. Used Fairlight CMI synthesiser wrote about books rather than love which was a frequent topic for the time Often influenced by writers such as Stephen King and the Brontes 1 of 9 Wider Listening David Bowie-Heroes music, co-written by Bowie and Eno electric and ambient Low-frequency drones David Bowie-Life on Mars features strings and heavy ballad-style piano moments Tori Amos-Winter similar vocal range Bjorak-Vulnikura Unpredictable melodies Harmony is not diatonic or functional Elvis Costello-Armed Forces include codas and organ lines mix the phrasing with guitar lines Madonna use of drum machines and synthesisers small range 2 of 9 Melody And Dream of Sheep opens with rising fifths refrains include minor thirds outro includes word painting 'deeper' 'unresolved' dominant note at the end Cloudbusting triadic shape (G#-B-E), notes include and unprepared seventh and major triad the chorus uses 'hook' with rapidly repeated notes and syncopated anticipation Violin riffs and seventh leaps are often stepwise Under Ice melodic range-restricted Quasi-pentatonic shapes (bars 15-18) small range but the last phrase is higher portamento effect 3 of 9 Harmony Based on diatonic functional harmony Repeated chord sequences extension, suspended and slash chords And Dream of Sheep few perfect cadences opens with another modal sequence using the subtonic and conventional progression/tonic bass pedal Cloud Busting 7th and 9th chords Under Ice A# minor scale repeated chord sequences movement by thirds 4 of 9 Tonality Tonality is clear and modally inflected And Dream of Sheep modal C# minor (verses) E major (refrain and bridge) E major (end) Cloud Busting C# minor with no key changes Under Ice modal A minor no key changes Finishes on Asus2 chord 5 of 9 Structure And Dream of Sheep Intro-Verse-Bridge-Verse-Bridge 2-Outro/Coda Cloud Busting Verse-Bridge-Chorus-Verse 2-Bridge-Chorus-Instrumental-Chorus-Outro Under Ice Through composed 6 of 9 Texture Most of the pieces are melody dominated homophony And Dream of Sheep focus on the vocal line tonic bass pedal doubling up of vocals block chords Cloud Busting homorhythmic (throughout) countermelodies polyphonic (chorus) Under Ice articulated bass pedal (throughout) homorhythmic (bar 19) open fifth textures (bars 3-4) 7 of 9 Instrumentation And Dream of Sheep piano, vocal and guitar arrangement used CMI as did the other songs in the album Irish whistle is multi-tracked Cloud Busting vocals, backing vocals, strings, keyboard, synths, percussion and drums Under Ice All accompaniment is synthesised/sampled sound produced through Fairlight CMI Lead singer 8 of 9 Rhythm and Metre Vocal lines contain frequent syncopation, anticipation and retardation/suspensions And Dream of Sheep slow ballad syncopation (verse and refrain) anacrusis (outro) triplets (outro) Lombardic rhythms (end) Cloud Busting fast tempo rapidly repeated notes (chorus) syncopation (verse, refrain and chorus) Under Ice begins at 65 bpm cross rhythms crotchety pulse repeated ten-bar rhythmic unit (bars 5-14) 9 of 9
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