Irish, African and western electronic instruments and styles
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Name the Irish instruments used
Celtic harp, Uilleann pipes, Bohdhrán, tin whistle and flute.
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What is a Uileann pipe?
Basically the Irish version of bagpipes
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What is the Bodhrán?
A framed drum
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Name the African instruments.
Djembe, Talking drum, Kora, Balafon
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What is a Djembe?
a type of drum
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What is a Kora?
An African Harp type thing
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what is a Balafon?
a wooden xylophone
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What western electric instruments are used?
Electric guitar, Bass guitar, Keyboard (synth)
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What structure is the piece in ?
Strophic
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What does strophic mean?
each verse uses the same melody (in this piece there are some slight variations in the later verses)
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what scale is the melody based off of and what culture is this taken from?
C minor Pentatonic scale- Irish
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Is the vocal melody simple or complex.
simple
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Is the vocal melody disjunct, conjunct or both?
conjunct.
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The melody consist of a repeating phrase, but how long is this phrase?
2 bars long
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Does the melody have a big or small range.
small (from the G above middle C to the B flat below
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Whats the underlying pulse created by?
the Djembe and Bodhrán
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What do they play?
the same repeated rhythm
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Are the drum parts syncopated
Yes- its stressing beats that are usually unstressed (eg 3rd beat)
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What is the texture in the piece?
Mainly homophonic as instruments accompany a simple sung melody. it later becomes polyphonic as some countermelodies come in
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Is there a drone?
yes
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what is a drone?
A held note whilst other things are happening around it.
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What is the time signature and bpm for the piece
4/4, 100
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what are the dynamics for the piece
Gradual crescendo
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What happens in the introduction
Drone on synth, ad lib drum sounds and African chanting (African griot (storytelling) style) The main drum rhythm enters and plays the riff above before the vocals begin. the intro is quite long
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What happens during verse one
Female vocalist sings main melody based on opening phrase. bass guitar plays riff
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what western technique did they use.
Looping
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What African techniques did they use?
Griot (storytelling) style, heavy use of drums and complex rhythms
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Name the Irish instruments used
Back
Celtic harp, Uilleann pipes, Bohdhrán, tin whistle and flute.
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