Musical Concepts (Scottish) Flashcards
What does a Scottish country dance band consist of?
A fiddle, an accordion, piano (or keyboard), double bass and drums.
What is a bothy ballad?
A both is the name given to the building which used to house farm labourers.
Accordion, fiddle and singing. Many verses, sometimes sentimental, but usually crude commentaries in the hardships of farm life.
In dorich.
Scottish country dance band is also known as…?
Ceilidh band.
What are reels?
A reel is a lively dance, usually in 4,4, time, mostly associated with Scotland.
What are strathspeys?
The strathspey is Scotland’s only slow dance, slower than the reel and the jig.
Usually in 4,4, time, with much of it’s character coming from the dotted rhythms and the scotch snap.
What is a scotch snap?
A short note followed by a longer note, which lasts for the remainder of the beat.
Explain what a waltz is.
A dance with three beats to a bar, usually crotchet beats - 3,4.
What is a waulking song?
Scottish type of work song, sung by woman as they ‘waulked the cloth’, (made the material weatherproof).
Rhythm to it.
What is a vamp?
Consists of a bite in the bass (on the left hand) played on the beat, immediately followed by a chord off the beat, (in the right hand).
Associated with Scottish country dance music.
What is a jig?
Style of music which has been danced to for centuries.
‘Gigue’ by Bach is a jig.
Sprightly, in 6,8, time.
How would you describe a march?
2,2 timing.
