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Release Flashcards

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1
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African instruments

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Talking drum
Kora

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Celtic forces

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Hurdy gurdy
Ullean pipes
Bodhran
Fiddle
Whistle
Accordion

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Western instruments

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Synthesiser
Sampler
Electric keyboard
Drum machine
Shaker
Tambourine
Bass guitar

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4
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Intro starts with a…

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Low pass filter - sweep through all fréquences in a tone and modulate sound upper and lower keeping the harmony same fundamental.

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Intro layering starts:

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Talking drum
Synth strings
Vocal samples
Bodhran
Shaker
Drum machine

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6
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Techniques used in Release

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Panning
Fade
Reverb
Echo

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7
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What key does the drone establish

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C aeolian mode

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8
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Intro female voice

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Use of female vocalisation with reverb and panning giving a sense of improvisation

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9
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Intro drum and bodhran

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Establish steady tempo of 100bpm from rubato
Used as backbone of the piece
Heavy use of syncopation and remains same without elaborating

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10
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Intro shaker

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Starts to introduce rhythm
At 0:43 seconds spoken male vocal samples through maninka lyrics as a storytelling style

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Intro addition

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1:20, addition of synth and drum loop
Even kora plays simple riff which is heard over the loops
Added with female vocalisation

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V1 voice

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  • Female voice is repetitive and limited to a 6th.
  • Syllabic with even 2 bar phrase and not more than 8 bars
  • accompaniment is simple chords giving. A homophonic texture and dynamics and tension builds
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What instruments accompany v1 voice

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  • drums + talking drum =very faint
  • tambourine = takes over from shaker and plays steady semi-waivers
  • kora with a new riff planned and enters at the end of the verse with
    -low synth strings which play an ascending chromatic line
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14
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V1 drum break

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  • synth play 8 bar instrumental
  • bass uses c and Bb making mods, feel
  • texture thins outs so more dramatic
  • short flute effect through delay of FX echo
  • breath samples in syncopation
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Ullean pipe solo

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  • polyphonic with pipe and hurdy gurdy
  • whistle plays octave higher
  • occasional glissandos
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16
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V2 voice

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Gaelic vocalisation
Less phrasing
Accompanied with complex drum rhythm = double stopped, accents and triplets

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17
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End of V2 voice

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  • Repeated but increase in emotion through pitch and dynamics
  • ascending chromatic line
  • vocal line anticipated beats and soars over others
18
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What is played with end of V2

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  • fiddle introduced (both Gaelic) where the chromatic line links from drum and bass into solos
19
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Solo 2 - Low whistle solo

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  • Played with synth and accordion with rhythmic intérêts and bass returns after
  • lighter texture with bass dropped
  • bodhran is simper and scarce
20
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Break after solo

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Short vocal phrases of African male voice and hurdy gurdy
- all drop expect accordion and played 2 bars rhythm

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V3 voice and Gaelic part (same)

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Same as v1 but texture thinner with only synth and hurdy gurdy continued playing static chords

22
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Build - drum break

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  • complex drum added
  • bass uses c and Bb making modal feel
  • texture thins so more dramatic
  • pentatonic- 5 notes used by Irish triad
  • drum and bodhran = backbone and synco
  • shaker introduces rhyme
23
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Build - change at 6:00

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  • electric piano = layered piano loops with syncopated melody of F and G
  • electric piano 2 = ossiclating oattern og Eb and F
  • hurdy gurdy makes piano drop and joins to create heterophonic texture with female voice samples
  • ullean pipes also layer
24
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Outro

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  • last verse of female voice and ends with stop to all layers
  • ends with electric piano 1 and 2 layered and fades out
25
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African melodic techniques

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  • pentatonic
  • cyclic
  • conjunct
  • rhythmically interesting
  • African dialect
26
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Celtic features melody

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  • decoration
  • virtuosic interments
  • conjunct
  • Gaelic language
27
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Western features

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  • repetitive
  • use of samples
  • short
  • layers and looped
28
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Overall texture

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MDH as it follows the vocal lines

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Verse 3 texture

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Polyphonic as they play two melodies at the same time

30
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Rhythm mètre and tempo

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  • 44
  • straight semiquavers
  • syncopation and triplets
  • polyrhythms
  • rubato but steady after
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Rhythm mètre and tempo

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  • 44
  • straight semiquavers
  • syncopation and triplets
  • polyrhythms
  • rubato but steady after
32
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Context for technology

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  • multitracking
  • parts faded to allow panning in stereo field
  • synths and prerecord pet loops
  • reverb
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Structure

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  • strophic
  • split into 8 bar phrases
  • determined by texture not tonality
34
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Melody

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  • based on opening motif
  • solo parts played based on folk tunes
  • idiomatic and suited for song
35
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C aeolian

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Natural minor and not raised 7th

36
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C Dorian

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6th raised - A natural not flat and raised by a semitone

37
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Reverb

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Echoing by delaying and layering over while it fades out. This shows that it is not in the studio and so gives a sense of large artificial space

38
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What makes it a fusion

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  • Contrasting rhythm
  • syncopation
  • polyrhythms
  • virtuosic melodies
  • decorated
  • pentatonic scale
  • hetrophonic
  • polyphonic
  • instruments
39
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Male voice range

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13th

40
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Harmony and Tonality

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  • modal
  • c aeolian and Dorian
  • diatonic
  • chromaticism
  • extended chords of 7th and 9ths

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