Kate Bush, Hounds Of Love Flashcards
What was Bush’s background?
What did this mean?
What styles influenced her?
Irish background
Traditional Irish music prevalent
Rock, classic, jazz, world
What tech did Bush use?
Fairlight CMI
Creates electric sounds
Similarity between all instrumentation
‘Cloudbusting’
Synthesised or treated
Sonority
‘Cloudbusting’
Strings (synthesised)
Drums (synthesised)
Bouzouki
Treated vocal samples
Sampling
When is the bouzouki used?
What is it?
‘Cloudbusting’
Bars 8-9
Long necked mandolin, Irish
How are the vocal samples treated?
‘Cloudbusting’
Voice put through CMI
Gives weird vocal output
What plays the chords?
Describe the chords
Describe the chord pattern
‘Cloudbusting’
Stri FB s
Block, staccato, detached (WL = Eleanor Rigby (same genre + time), psycho)
Regular
What is referenced through the lyrics throughout?
‘Cloudbusting’
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”
What is ‘Cloudbusting’ lacking (sonority/texture)?
Traditional backing accomp
What drums are used in bar 93?
How do they enter?
‘Cloudbusting’
Marching band/military
Fade in
(Unrelated influence to book)
How is “happen” sung?
What bar?
‘Cloudbusting’
Falls off
107
What is depicted in the last 2 bars?
How?
‘Cloudbusting’
Machine working
Steam engine sample chug beats out of time
Sows and pulls back piece
How are the drums and percussion used?
Restricted
Percussion = little to no
What is the main accomp?
Synthesised string sextet accomp
What music tech is used throughout?
‘Cloudbusting’
Keyboard and CMI samples
Range of Bush’s vocals
Means?
‘Cloudbusting’
Alto range of 10th
Not virtuosic
How is the melody sung?
‘Cloudbusting’
Non-melismatic
Almost speaking rhythm
What are the backing vocals?
‘Cloudbusting’
Bush vocals
Wordless
Chanting
Structure of ‘Cloudbusting’
Verse
Bridge
Chorus
Verse
Bridge
Chorus
Instrumental
Chorus
Outro
Texture of ‘Cloudbusting’
Mostly homophonic
More polyphonic in chorus
What is counterpoint?
‘Cloudbusting’
2 melodies at same time with differences
One more technical than other
WL = Debussy No.2
What is the mode throughout?
How is the beginning key strange?
Quote
‘Cloudbusting’
Mode rather than key
Modal C#m
Triassic E major, but in Em
“I still dream”
What are the 2 chord sequences?
Describe
‘Cloudbusting’
Chorus = C#m7 - Badd9 - F#7(sus4) - Badd9
Verse + bridges = 3rd chord is A6/9
Clear
What makes ‘Cloudbusting’ uncomfortable?
Unprepared 7ths
Syncopation meaning
What is syncopated?
‘Cloudbusting’
Off beat
Slightly in Cloudbusting
Describe the tempo
How is the tempo loosened in the bridge?
‘Cloudbusting’
Quick, almost double time
Uses 3/2 time but noted as 6/4
How is a string pulse created?
How do the string rhythms progress?
‘Cloudbusting’
Quaver rhythm
Become more active throughout
Style of ‘and dream of sheep’
Lullaby/ballad (reminiscent of early career)
What does ‘and dream of sheep’ set up/lead into?
How is word painting created?
WL
‘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’
Samples used in ‘and dream of sheep’
Shipping forecast, 45 seconds in
“Come here with me now” = seer like, luring
Structure of ‘and dream of sheep’
Through composed
Not conventional pop structure
Wha leaps does the RH piano and voice have?
When?
‘and dream of sheep’
Octave 8th leap
Bar 1, 5, 20
How are 5ths used?
When?
‘and dream of sheep’
Rising and falling
No 3rd so not maj or min
Not conventional rules of harmony
Throughout
Double tracked meaning
What instrument is double tracked?
What does it cause?
‘and dream of sheep’
Recorded multiple times over each other but same
Whistle
Builds texture/bigger sound
What is lacking structurally?
‘and dream of sheep’
No intro
Difference of piano in verse
‘and dream of sheep’
Style more dramatic + involved
When is there a pause?
Effect
WL
‘and dream of sheep’
Bar 47
N.C = no chord
Dramatic
Courtney Pine ‘inner state of mind’: “next flex” pause “unacceptable”
Describe the ending
‘and dream of sheep’
Ambiguous final chord
Common for KB
Ends on dominant (v) note of scale, doesn’t sound finished (no finishing cadence)
What is the texture focused on?
Element of?
‘and dream of sheep’
Vocal line
Ballad
What instruments are paired together?
‘and dream of sheep’
Piano + voice
Whistle + bouzouki
Texture of ‘and dream of sheep’
Homophonic
What pedal is used?
When?
‘and dream of sheep’
Tonic bass E pedal
Several sections
Tone of verses
Refrain + bridge
‘and dream of sheep’
Modal C#m
Cloudbusting has that mode throughout
Relative Emaj
Ending tone
‘and dream of sheep’
Ends inconclusively in Emaj
Finished of B of Emaj chord
What is the opening modal sequence?
Refrain chord progression
‘and dream of sheep’
C#m7 - F#m/A - B
Traditional I, II, V, I
What melodic sequence does the verse open with?
‘and dream of sheep’
2 rising 5ths
How is the refrain back and forth esque
‘and dream of sheep’
Ascending minor 3rd
Tempo
End tempo
Metre (+ exception)
‘and dream of sheep’
Slow ballad tempo is 50/80(?)
Rit (common for KB)
Simple
5/4 at bar 51(3rd last) for dramatic affect
Rhythm
‘and dream of sheep’
Lost of syncopation throughout
Sonority of ‘under ice’
Voice and CMI only
All synthesised
Limited budget so no live strings etc
Example of hounds of love being a concept album (rhythm)
‘under ice’
Accomp quaver rhythm same as Cloudbusting
Diff mood
Tessitura
‘under ice’
Low
KB = alto
Refrain sections with lower choir to male voice
When are melismas used?
When + why is a tremolo used?
‘under ice’
27-28 “trees”
16-17 “ over”
Bar 46
In voice
Represents shivering
Texture of ‘under ice’
Through composed
Little clarity of verse- chorus structure
Based on repetition of ideas
Metre of ‘under ice’
Starts 4/4
Bar 7 3/4
What scale does the melody use?
WL
‘under ice’
Pentatonic
VW
What is a pedal note?
Describe the ‘under ice’ pedal note
Low held note
Articulated, accented, obsessive crotchet bass pedal note
Who is the 1st sting part harmonically ambiguous?
‘under ice’
Open 5ths
Not maj or min
What is homo rhythmic in refrain?
‘under ice’
Voice + string melody accomp
End chord
‘under ice’
Ambiguous Sus 2 chord
KB self taught means
Not constrained by functional harmony + chord progressions
=> non-functional harmony, opp to Bach
What chord sequences occur throughout?
Chord sequence
Describe phrases
‘under ice’
Lots 2-4 bar
Fmaj7# - Dm9 - A(Sus2) - Am/C
Short
Key of ‘under ice’
Tone
A natural minor (only white notes)
Occasional Dmaj chord (has F# black note) bar 54
Modal A minor
No key changes
Conjunct meaning
Melodic range
‘Under ice’
Small stepwise movement
Restricted
What suggests feelings of entrapment + panic of character?
‘Under ice’
Short staccato refrain like ideas
Temo:
Beginning
Accels to
Then
Last 4 bars
‘Under ice’
65bpm
100
108
Rit
