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World Music

Area of Study 4:. World Music. Capercaillie : Sky Waulking Song. Learning Objectives: To annotate and analyse the score of Capercaillie’s ‘ Skye Waulking Song’

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World Music

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  1. Area of Study 4: World Music

  2. Capercaillie: Sky Waulking Song Learning Objectives: To annotate and analyse the score of Capercaillie’s ‘Skye Waulking Song’ To consolidate your understanding in the main features of Melody, Harmony, Tonality and Structure of Capercaillie’s ‘Skye Waulking Song’

  3. StarterActivity (10mins) You are going to listen to Capercaillie’s‘Sky Waulking Song’. Answer the questions on the worksheet in as much detail as you can. It is out of 12 marks! DO NOT leave any blanks.

  4. Recap: Background to ‘Skye Waulking Song’ Capercaullie’s‘Sky Waulking Song’ was released in September 2000 on their album Nadurra. Line up: Donald Shaw: Accordion, Piano, Synth Michael McGoldrick: Flutes, Whistle, Uileann Pipes Karen Matheson: Vocals Ewen Vernal: Acoustic and Electric Bass Charles McKerron: Fiddle Manus LunnyL Bouzouki, Guitar, Bodhran, Vocals James MacKintosh: Drums, Percussion

  5. Capercaillie • This group of musicians formed in Oban High School, in the West Highlands of Scotland, in the early 1980s by Donald Shaw (accordion and keyboards) and several of his friends on other instruments. • The name is taken from a Scottish grouse (a native bird) that was at one point nearing extinction, but has since undergone a successful preservation campaign.

  6. Skye Waulking Song • Skye Waulking Song is a waulking song telling the tale of Seathan, son of the king of Ireland, from a collection of Gaelic folk songs by Alexander Carmichael. • The original song was nearly 200 lines long and would have taken over an hour to perform, but the Capercaillie version uses just an extract from the Alexander Carmichael collection. • The original song was a lament sung by Seathan’s wife, telling of his deeds, his character, her recollections of times spent with him and his demise.

  7. Lyrics...... Hi rihuraihhi o ho Chuirm’athairmisedha’ntaighcharraideach O hi a hhorohu o ho Hi ro ho Chuirm’athairmisedha’ntaighcharraideach Hi rihuraihhi o ho ‘N oidhche sin a rinn e bhanaisdhomh O hi a hhorohu o ho ‘N oidhche sin a rinn e bhanaisdhomh Etc.

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  13. Important points to note • Harmony in this style of music is less important than melody and rhythm. The harmony is very simple throughout the song (there are only four chords in the whole song), but the changes in chord sequence, while infrequent, are very noticeable when they happen, highlighting a change of section and mood. • The melodic lines are played in the folk style- the instruments improvise around the melody simultaneously, sometimes playing a very similar melody in slightly different ways (creating a heterophonic texture) and sometimes weaving a complex, improvised counterpoint around the melody and scale (G major). • The vocal part is sung using the scale of E minor pentatonic (or G major pentatonic) throughout.

  14. Plenary Answer these questions! • What musical technique is used by the fiddle in the beginning of the piece? • How many chords is the song based on? Name Them! • What is the texture between the uileann pipes and fiddle? • How is the melody utilised in a folk style? • Which scale is the vocal line based on?

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