Transcript Scottish Unit Int1 & Int 2

The Music of Scotland
Features of Scottish Music
What makes Scottish music sound Scottish?
• Instruments
• Melody
• Scales
• Grace notes
• Rhythm
Bagpipes
Listen to the sound of the bagpipes
Pipe Band
A pipe band includes drums as well as
pipes. Most commonly marching bass
drums & snare drums.
Listen to the sound of a pipe band
Bagpipes
• Drones
• Chanter
• Reed
Styles of Bagpipe music
• Pipe Band
• Pibroch
Instruments
Fiddle
The fiddle, is just a Scottish word for
violin.
Listen to this example of Scottish fiddle
music
This fiddle is accompanied by which instrument?
This bass – chord, bass – chord style of piano accompaniment is
called a vamp. Listen out for it in future excerpts.
Accordion
The accordion is very much
associated with Scottish
music.
Listen to the sound of an
accordion
Instruments
Clarsach
The clarsach is a Scottish harp. It comes
in a number of sizes, but is smaller than
an orchestral harp.
Listen to the sound of
the clarsach
See a Clarsach being
played here
Scottish Vocal Music
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used to tell a story
to work to
to dance to
to entertain
Scots Ballad
• Tells a story
• Handed down through word-of-mouth
• Often through travelling people
• Unaccompanied
Listen to this
Scots Ballad
Listen to another
Waulking song
• Working song
• Listen for the ‘Thud Thud’
• Call & Response technique
• Singing in Unison
Listen to this
waulking song
Listen to another
Puirt-a-beul
(mouth music)
• Music to dance to
• No instruments (Unaccompanied)
• Very rhythmic
Listen to this
Puirt-a-beul
Listen to
another
Gaelic Psalm Singing
• ‘Eerie’ sound
• Slow
• Congregation follows minister
• Singing in Unison
Listen to some Gaelic Psalm
singing
Bothy Ballad
• Sung by men
• Tales of Farming
• Often humorous
• Unaccompanied
Listen to this
Bothy Ballad
Diddling
(another type of mouth music)
• Music to dance to
• No instruments
• Very rhythmic
• Sounds like
“diddle–di–diddle”
Listen to some
diddling
Scottish Dance Music
Played by a Scottish
Country Dance Band
Heard at a Ceilidh
Listen to the sound of an Scottish Country
Dance Band
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The Reel
A quick dance
In Simple time 2/4 or 4/4
‘Straight’ rhythms
(quavers / crotchets etc.)
No ‘jumpy’ rhythms
Sounds like “Running Reel, Running Reel”
Listen to this reel
Here’s another one
The Jig
Another quick dance
In Compound time 6/8
‘Jumpy, Skippy’ rhythms
(triplets & ‘dotted-sounding’.)
You can hear:
“Straw-ber-ry Straw-ber-ry “one-and-a-two-and-a” or
“skippity-skippity skippity-skippity”
Listen to this jig
Here’s another Jig
The March
A dance at a ‘marching’ pace
Can be in 4/4, 2/4 or 6/8 time
Sounds like you could
‘march to the strong beat’.
Listen to this march
Here’s another one
The Strathspey
A more slow dance
(at a walking pace)
In Simple time 4/4
The only dance
to contain Scotch Snaps
Listen to this strathspey
Here’s another one
The Waltz
A slow dance
In 3/4 time
Count “ 1,2,3
1,2,3”
Listen to this waltz
Listen to another one
Melody
Pentatonic Scale
Auld Lang Syne
& b4
4
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j
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Ï. Ï Ï
Ï . Ïj Ï Ï Ï
jÏ
Ï. Ï
ú.
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The easiest way to find the pentatonic scale is the black
notes on a piano keyboard.
Grace Notes
Grace note
Bagpipe
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Rhythm
. j
Auld Lang
Syne
Auld Lang Syne
j jÏ
& b4
4& b4
Ï 4 Ï Ï . Ï Ï. Ï Ï Ï
ÏÏ
Scotch
Snap
6
Bagp.
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j
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b
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&
b
&
Ally Bally Bee
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Scot ch snap
& bÏ Ï Ï Ï Ï Ï Ï Ï Ï
Al ∙ ly Bal ∙ ly Al ∙ ly Bal ∙ ly Bee
∙
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Sit ∙ tin' on yer Mam ∙ my's knee
Strathspey
∙
&b ∙
∙
∙
∙
∙
∙
∙
∙
∙
∙
∙
∙
∙
&b
∙
∙
Modern Folk music
Folk music is still very
much alive & well
Here’s an example of
modern folk music
Here’s another
End of Scottish Music Unit