Release Flashcards
Describe a Kora
A West-African string instrument that looks like a cross between a harp and a lute, normally with 21 strings to pluck, like a harp (but played like a guitar)
Describe a Bodhran
An Irish frame drum that is played with a double-headed stick (bone/tipper) and the pitching of the drum can be altered by applying pressure
Describe a Hurdy Gurdy
European folk music
The player sounds the notes by using a crank to turn a wheel that rubs against the strings
Drone strings so that they can create a bagpipe-like effect
Keyboard allows change of pitch by pressing tangents against the strings
Describe the Uilleann Pipes
National bagpipe of Ireland
Sound like a sweeter and quieter kind of bagpipe
Played by pumping bellows which are placed under the arm
Chanter part of the pipe contains holes that the player covers to create different pitches
Describe a Synthesiser
An electronic instrument that generates audio signals and creates sounds through different waveforms
Describe a Bass
An instrument that plays the lowest pitch in the music, acting like a somewhat pulse to the music. This also helps keep the rhythm and beat of the music going.
What is a MODE?
A way in which the notes of the scale are placed based on the interval between a specific note and the tonic note.
What MUSIC TECHNOLOGY techniques and devices can you hear in this piece?
Layering (overdubbing)
Use of synthesisers
Loops
Stereo Field – Reverb and Delay
What are the AFRICAN instruments used in ‘Release’
Kora
African Vocal in the ‘griot’
What are the IRISH instruments used in ‘Release’
Uilleann Pipes
Bodhran
Hurdy-Gurdy
What are the MUSIC TECHNOLOGY instruments used in ‘Release’
Synthesisers
Loops
What are the POP MUSIC instruments used in ‘Release’
Vocals
Bass
What INSTRUMENTAL aspects of RELEASE make it a fusion piece?
Use of different instruments from two different cultures
instruments had only been usually played within their own culture
What RHYTHMICAL aspects of RELEASE make it a fusion piece?
Irish folk tradition-like beats are played with semiquaver triplets (non-regular pulse)
Bodhran rhythm is the initial backbone of the track (goes against the other rhythms)
What MELODICAL aspects of RELEASE make it a fusion piece?
Based on a lot of folk melodies and mostly move in semi-quavers
Shifting tonality within a single melody line is common in folk music
