Kate Bush: Hounds Of Love Flashcards
What is ‘The Ninth Wave’?
What is it about?
What set songs are in this part?
2nd part of Hounds Of Love
Thoughts of a person drifting alone at sea at night, battling to stay awake and slipping in and out of consciousness
And Dream Of Sheep
Under Ice
What is the central instrument of the album?
What was it?
What is a comparison you can make about Bush’s use of this instrument
Fairlight CMI (computer musical instrument)
Latest synthesiser tech (sequencing, synthesising, sampling)
Earliest uses is cello part in ‘Army Dreamers’ (1980)
What is the instrumentation of the album?
Fairlight
Folk instruments:
Bouzouki
Balalaika
Didgeridoo
Uilleann pipes
What we’re the lyrics to ‘Cloudbusting’ inspired by?
What about this is prevalent in the song?
A Book Of Dreams by Peter Reich
Reich’s father (arrested then died) a theorist;
Believed could engineer changes in the weather, invented device ‘cloudbuster’
What is ‘Cloudbusting’ scored for?
What is the instrument only used in two bars?
When?
Vocals
Backing vocals
Strings (by The Medici Sextet)
Keyboard
Synthesisers
Percussion
Drums
Balalaika
Played by brother
Towards end of first verse
What is the structure of ‘Cloudbusting’?
Verse and chorus form
Verse
No.1 Bridge
Chorus
Verse
No.2 Bridge
Chorus
Instrumental
Chorus
Outro (extended)
What is the key of ‘Cloudbusting’?
What 2 chords does it mostly revolve around?
C# minor
C#minor7
Badd9
How does ‘Cloudbusting’ open?
Staccato quaver chords playing on each beat of the bar
What are two musical ideas in ‘Cloudbusting’ AND ‘Under Ice’?
Staccato quaver chords in each beat of the bar
Changing time signatures
What happens at bar 3 of ‘Cloudbusting’?
Quaver riff appears
Heard at irregular intervals throughout
Describe the outro in ‘Cloudbusting’
What does the outro section feature?
Long
Backing vocals singing in counterpoint (contrasting/complimenting) with the solo vocals
What type of song is ‘And Dream Of Sheep’?
What is it played on?
What are other instruments used?
Lullaby
Piano
Bouzouki
Whistles
What is ‘And Dream Of Sheep’ about?
Narrator trying to stay awake in water and awaits rescue
But taken deeper and deeper
Struggle for consciousness proves futile
What is the vocal range of ‘And Dream Of Sheep’?
Where do most of the notes lie?
9th
Middle of the stave
What is the structure of ‘And Dream Of Sheep’?
Intro
Verse
Bridge
Verse
Bridge 2
Outro/Coda
What key does ‘And Dream Of Sheep’ open in?
Wha this this the same as?
What is most of the song in?
C# minor
Cloudbusting
E, the relative major
What type of chords are used in ‘And Dream Of Sheep’?
Slash cords
Sus chords
Add chords
9th chords
7th chords
What makes the improv feel of ‘And Dream Of Sheep’?
Many melismas
Free rhythms
Several time sig changes
Wha this the intro of ‘And Dream Of Sheep’ dominated by?
Interval of a perfect 5th
In piano and vocals
What does the first bridge sample in ‘And Dream Of Sheep’?
How is the pedal used?
Recording of a shipping forecast
E pedal note
What does the 2nd bridge use in ‘And Dream Of Sheep’?
Bouzouki
Whistles
What does the ‘And Dream Of Sheep’ outro use variations of?
How are the vocals ornamented?
Where does the vocal descend and lead to?
What is this an example of?
Descending vocal line ending in words ‘they take me deeper and deeper’
Melismas
Lower register to next song ‘Under Ice’
Word-painting
What is ‘Under Ice’ about?
Water of dream world turned to ice
Narrator dragged under into claustrophobic world
trying to escape
What does ‘Under Ice’ open with? (Sound, instrument, note, intervals)
Wha this the opening similar to?
Portentous-sounding (solemn) synth strings
Repeating note A in octaves
Opening of ‘Cloudbusting’
What enters in bar 2 of ‘Under Ice’?
How long does this last for?
Atmospheric synth pad with a sustained chord
Throughout
What note does the voice enter on in ‘Under Ice’?
What it the range of the vocal?
Low A
Low tessitura, narrow range of a 5th
How is ‘Under Ice’ unusual for a pop song?
Through-composed:
No discernible verses or choruses
Doesn’t fall into sections but changes throughout
What acts as a unifying factor in because of it being thorough-composed in ‘Under Ice’?
Permitted by a quaver-quaver-crotchet motif
Along with:
Th repeated synth string octaves on each beat
When is the ‘Under Ice’ motif first and then heard?
What is it similar to?
Strings in bar 3
Vocals in bar 9
Semiquaver-semiquaver-quaver figure in ‘And Dream Of Sheep’
