Skye Waulking Song
- Created by: godswood
- Created on: 16-04-16 14:45
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Capercaillie - Skye Waulking Song
Background:
- Lead vocalist - Karen Matheson
- Released in 2000 from the album Nadurra
- Scottish
- Lament - a song about grief/mourning
- Waulking - working
- Waulking - call&response form
- Folk - learnt by ear
- Oral tradition
- Protest song
- Folk revival in 1950s led to folk pop fusion
- Celtic fusion
- Celtic - folk music from Scotland, Wales or Ireland
Harmony & Tonality:
- Tonal ambiguity
- Alternating between G and Em
- 3 main chords used are G, Em and C
Melody:
- G pentatonic scale
- Low register of the voice - tenor, sounds an octave lower than printed
- Mainly syllabic
- Alternates between one bar phrases…
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