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Kate Bush, Hounds Of Love Flashcards

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1
Q

What was Bush’s background?
What did this mean?
What styles influenced her?

A

Irish background
Traditional Irish music prevalent
Rock, classic, jazz, world

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What tech did Bush use?

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Fairlight CMI
Creates electric sounds

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Similarity between all instrumentation
‘Cloudbusting’

A

Synthesised or treated

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Sonority
‘Cloudbusting’

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Strings (synthesised)
Drums (synthesised)
Bouzouki
Treated vocal samples
Sampling

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When is the bouzouki used?
What is it?
‘Cloudbusting’

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Bars 8-9
Long necked mandolin, Irish

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How are the vocal samples treated?
‘Cloudbusting’

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Voice put through CMI
Gives weird vocal output

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What plays the chords?
Describe the chords
Describe the chord pattern
‘Cloudbusting’

A

Stri FB s
Block, staccato, detached (WL = Eleanor Rigby (same genre + time), psycho)
Regular

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What is referenced through the lyrics throughout?
‘Cloudbusting’

A

Book about sons mad father who believed he could control the weather with a machine
“You’re like my yo-yo, buried in the garden”

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9
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What is ‘Cloudbusting’ lacking (sonority/texture)?

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Traditional backing accomp

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What drums are used in bar 93?
How do they enter?
‘Cloudbusting’

A

Marching band/military
Fade in
(Unrelated influence to book)

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11
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How is “happen” sung?
What bar?
‘Cloudbusting’

A

Falls off
107

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12
Q

What is depicted in the last 2 bars?
How?
‘Cloudbusting’

A

Machine working
Steam engine sample chug beats out of time
Sows and pulls back piece

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How are the drums and percussion used?

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Restricted
Percussion = little to no

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What is the main accomp?

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Synthesised string sextet accomp

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What music tech is used throughout?
‘Cloudbusting’

A

Keyboard and CMI samples

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Range of Bush’s vocals
Means?
‘Cloudbusting’

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Alto range of 10th
Not virtuosic

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17
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How is the melody sung?
‘Cloudbusting’

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Non-melismatic
Almost speaking rhythm

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What are the backing vocals?
‘Cloudbusting’

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Bush vocals
Wordless
Chanting

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Structure of ‘Cloudbusting’

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Verse
Bridge
Chorus

Verse
Bridge
Chorus

Instrumental
Chorus
Outro

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Texture of ‘Cloudbusting’

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Mostly homophonic
More polyphonic in chorus

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What is counterpoint?
‘Cloudbusting’

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2 melodies at same time with differences
One more technical than other
WL = Debussy No.2

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What is the mode throughout?
How is the beginning key strange?
Quote
‘Cloudbusting’

A

Mode rather than key
Modal C#m

Triassic E major, but in Em
“I still dream”

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23
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What are the 2 chord sequences?
Describe
‘Cloudbusting’

A

Chorus = C#m7 - Badd9 - F#7(sus4) - Badd9
Verse + bridges = 3rd chord is A6/9
Clear

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24
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What makes ‘Cloudbusting’ uncomfortable?

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Unprepared 7ths

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25
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Syncopation meaning
What is syncopated?
‘Cloudbusting’

A

Off beat
Slightly in Cloudbusting

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Describe the tempo
How is the tempo loosened in the bridge?
‘Cloudbusting’

A

Quick, almost double time
Uses 3/2 time but noted as 6/4

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How is a string pulse created?
How do the string rhythms progress?
‘Cloudbusting’

A

Quaver rhythm
Become more active throughout

28
Q

Style of ‘and dream of sheep’

A

Lullaby/ballad (reminiscent of early career)

29
Q

What does ‘and dream of sheep’ set up/lead into?
How is word painting created?
WL

A

‘Under ice’
As tessitura lowers on “deeper and deeper”
Under ice = dream of falling through ice

Beatles ‘sgt. pepper’
Sinatra ‘in the wee small hours’

30
Q

Samples used in ‘and dream of sheep’

A

Shipping forecast, 45 seconds in
“Come here with me now” = seer like, luring

31
Q

Structure of ‘and dream of sheep’

A

Through composed
Not conventional pop structure

32
Q

Wha leaps does the RH piano and voice have?
When?
‘and dream of sheep’

A

Octave 8th leap
Bar 1, 5, 20

33
Q

How are 5ths used?
When?
‘and dream of sheep’

A

Rising and falling
No 3rd so not maj or min
Not conventional rules of harmony

Throughout

34
Q

Double tracked meaning
What instrument is double tracked?
What does it cause?
‘and dream of sheep’

A

Recorded multiple times over each other but same
Whistle
Builds texture/bigger sound

35
Q

What is lacking structurally?
‘and dream of sheep’

A

No intro

36
Q

Difference of piano in verse
‘and dream of sheep’

A

Style more dramatic + involved

37
Q

When is there a pause?
Effect
WL
‘and dream of sheep’

A

Bar 47
N.C = no chord
Dramatic

Courtney Pine ‘inner state of mind’: “next flex” pause “unacceptable”

38
Q

Describe the ending
‘and dream of sheep’

A

Ambiguous final chord
Common for KB

Ends on dominant (v) note of scale, doesn’t sound finished (no finishing cadence)

39
Q

What is the texture focused on?
Element of?
‘and dream of sheep’

A

Vocal line
Ballad

40
Q

What instruments are paired together?
‘and dream of sheep’

A

Piano + voice
Whistle + bouzouki

41
Q

Texture of ‘and dream of sheep’

A

Homophonic

42
Q

What pedal is used?
When?
‘and dream of sheep’

A

Tonic bass E pedal
Several sections

43
Q

Tone of verses
Refrain + bridge
‘and dream of sheep’

A

Modal C#m
Cloudbusting has that mode throughout

Relative Emaj

44
Q

Ending tone
‘and dream of sheep’

A

Ends inconclusively in Emaj
Finished of B of Emaj chord

45
Q

What is the opening modal sequence?
Refrain chord progression
‘and dream of sheep’

A

C#m7 - F#m/A - B
Traditional I, II, V, I

46
Q

What melodic sequence does the verse open with?
‘and dream of sheep’

A

2 rising 5ths

47
Q

How is the refrain back and forth esque
‘and dream of sheep’

A

Ascending minor 3rd

48
Q

Tempo
End tempo
Metre (+ exception)
‘and dream of sheep’

A

Slow ballad tempo is 50/80(?)
Rit (common for KB)
Simple
5/4 at bar 51(3rd last) for dramatic affect

49
Q

Rhythm
‘and dream of sheep’

A

Lost of syncopation throughout

50
Q

Sonority of ‘under ice’

A

Voice and CMI only
All synthesised
Limited budget so no live strings etc

51
Q

Example of hounds of love being a concept album (rhythm)
‘under ice’

A

Accomp quaver rhythm same as Cloudbusting
Diff mood

52
Q

Tessitura
‘under ice’

A

Low
KB = alto
Refrain sections with lower choir to male voice

53
Q

When are melismas used?
When + why is a tremolo used?
‘under ice’

A

27-28 “trees”
16-17 “ over”

Bar 46
In voice
Represents shivering

54
Q

Texture of ‘under ice’

A

Through composed
Little clarity of verse- chorus structure
Based on repetition of ideas

55
Q

Metre of ‘under ice’

A

Starts 4/4
Bar 7 3/4

56
Q

What scale does the melody use?
WL
‘under ice’

A

Pentatonic
VW

57
Q

What is a pedal note?
Describe the ‘under ice’ pedal note

A

Low held note
Articulated, accented, obsessive crotchet bass pedal note

58
Q

Who is the 1st sting part harmonically ambiguous?
‘under ice’

A

Open 5ths
Not maj or min

59
Q

What is homo rhythmic in refrain?
‘under ice’

A

Voice + string melody accomp

60
Q

End chord
‘under ice’

A

Ambiguous Sus 2 chord

61
Q

KB self taught means

A

Not constrained by functional harmony + chord progressions
=> non-functional harmony, opp to Bach

62
Q

What chord sequences occur throughout?
Chord sequence
Describe phrases
‘under ice’

A

Lots 2-4 bar
Fmaj7# - Dm9 - A(Sus2) - Am/C
Short

63
Q

Key of ‘under ice’
Tone

A

A natural minor (only white notes)
Occasional Dmaj chord (has F# black note) bar 54

Modal A minor
No key changes

64
Q

Conjunct meaning
Melodic range
‘Under ice’

A

Small stepwise movement
Restricted

65
Q

What suggests feelings of entrapment + panic of character?
‘Under ice’

A

Short staccato refrain like ideas

66
Q

Temo:
Beginning
Accels to
Then
Last 4 bars
‘Under ice’

A

65bpm
100
108
Rit

A-level Music: Edexcel (38 decks)

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