Music AoS4: Skye Waulking Song

(Chuir M'Athair Mise Dhan Taigh Charraideach-My Father Sent Me to a House of Sorrow)

British Folk Music:

• Irish bouzouki, accordion, bodhran, fiddle (violin), tenor banjo, tin whistle, uilleann pipes, clarsach
• Sung in workplaces (Shanties, slaves...)
• For celebrations (Christmas, dancing, harves, sewing seeds, ballads)
• Waulking=Repeatedly beating cloth to full it and prepare it for use.
• Rhythmic call and response to keep the beating in time

Background:

• From album Nadurra, released september 2000

Structure:

• 8 verses/stanzas with intro, outri and intrumental (between verses 6and7)
• Strophic

Metre:

• 12/8

Tonality and Harmony:

• Intro to verse 3 in Eminor
• Verse 4 to instrumental in Gmajor
• Verse 7 2 substitution…