Scottish Music Flashcards
Accordion
Piano - keyboard melody
Buttons - chords on left hand side
Bellows push air through reeds
Bagpipes
A Scottish instrument with a bag, chanter and pipes
Bodhran
An Irish wooden drum
Played with a beater
Held with one hand against the skin
Bothy Ballad
A folk song usually with many verses. It tells a story of a rural or farming life. Usually sung solo and in a dialect by a man and sometimes a group of men will join in the chorus
Celtic Rock
Blend of folk and rock music
Drum kit, electric guitars, bass guitars
Clarsach
Small Scottish harp
Drone
One note held on a low note on bagpipes
Fiddle
A violin which plays Scottish Music
Folk Group
A group of singers and instruments who play Scottish folk music.
Voice, Fiddle, Tin Whistle, Accordion, Acoustic Guitar
Gaelic Psalm
Hymns that were sung in Gaelic, unaccompanied
Mouth Music
Puirt a Beul
Rhythmical songs used for dancing when instruments were not available. Mixture of words and vocables
Pibroch
A solo bagpipes tune. Classical music o bagpipes
Scotch Snap
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Scots Ballad
A Scottish story that is slow which tells a story about something sad such as death, lost love, disaster or war
Scottish Dance Band
A group that play music for dancing
Fiddle, Accordion, Drum Kit
