The Music of Scotland

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The Music of Scotland Features of Scottish Music What makes Scottish music sound Scottish? • Instruments • Melody • Scales • Grace notes • Rhythm

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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. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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The Music of Scotland

Features of Scottish MusicWhat makes Scottish music sound Scottish?

• Instruments

• Melody

• Scales

• Grace notes

• Rhythm

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Bagpipes

Pipe Band

Listen to the sound of the bagpipes

Listen to the sound of a pipe band

A pipe band includes drums as well as pipes. Most commonly marching bass drums & snare drums.

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Bagpipes

• Drones

• Chanter

• Reed

Styles of Bagpipe music

• Pipe Band

• Pibroch

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Instruments

Fiddle

Accordion

The fiddle, is just a Scottish word for violin.

Listen to this example of Scottish fiddle music

The accordion is very much associated with Scottish music.

Listen to the sound of an accordion

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.

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Instruments

ClarsachThe 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

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Scottish Vocal Music• used to tell a story• to work to• to dance to • to entertain

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Scots Ballad• Tells a story

• Handed down through word-of-mouth

• Often through travelling people

• Unaccompanied

Listen to this Scots Ballad

Listen to another

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• Working song

• Listen for the ‘Thud Thud’

• Call & Response technique

• Singing in Unison

Listen to this waulking song

Listen to another

Waulking song

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Puirt-a-beul(mouth music)

• Music to dance to

• No instruments (Unaccompanied)

• Very rhythmicListen to this Puirt-a-beulListen to another

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Gaelic Psalm Singing• ‘Eerie’ sound

• Slow

• Congregation follows minister

• Singing in UnisonListen to some Gaelic Psalm singing

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Bothy Ballad

• Sung by men

• Tales of Farming

• Often humorous

• Unaccompanied

Listen to this Bothy Ballad

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Diddling(another type of mouth music)

• Music to dance to

• No instruments

• Very rhythmic

• Sounds like “diddle–di–diddle”

Listen to some diddling

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Scottish Dance Music Played by a Scottish Country Dance Band

Heard at a CeilidhListen to the sound of an Scottish Country Dance Band

Click the picture above to view

Click the picture above to view

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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

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The JigAnother 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

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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

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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

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The Waltz A slow dance

In 3/4 time

Count “ 1,2,3 1,2,3”

Listen to this waltz

Listen to another one

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Melody

Pentatonic Scale

Bagpipe &###

Grace note

ÞÏj

Ïj Ï Ï Ï Ï Ï Ï ∙ ∙ ∙

44&bAuld Lang Syne

Ï Ï . ÏjÏ Ï Ï . Ï

j Ï Ï Ï Ï . Ïj Ï Ï ú. Ï

Grace Notes

The easiest way to find the pentatonic scale is the black notes on a piano keyboard.

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Rhythm

Scotch Snap

44&bAuld Lang Syne

Ï Ï . ÏjÏ Ï Ï . Ï

j Ï Ï Ï Ï . Ïj Ï Ï ú. Ï

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Bagp. &bÏ Ï . Ï Ï . Ï Ï . Ï Ï . Ï Ï . Ï Ï . Ï Ï . ∙Ï Ï .

44&bAuld Lang Syne

Ï Ï . Ïj

Ï Ï Ï . Ïj Ï Ï Ï Ï . Ï

j Ï Ï

&bú. Ï Ï Ï . Ï Ï . Ï Ï . Ï Ï . Ï Ï . Ï Ï . Ï Ï . ∙Ï Ï .

&b

Al ly∙ BalÏ Ï

ly∙ Al

Ï Ïly∙ Bal ly∙ Bee

Ï Ï Ï Ï ÏSit tin'∙ on

Scotch snap

Ï Ï .yer Mam

Ï Ïmy's∙ knee

Ï Ï . Ï∙

&b ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙

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Ally Bally Bee

Strathspey

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Modern Folk music

Folk music is still very much alive & well

Here’s an example of modern folk music

Here’s another

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End of Scottish Music Unit