Scottish Music Flashcards
Accordion
Instrument with a keyboard and buttons. The player pushes and pulls the two sides to operate bellows
Bagpipes
Scottish instrument with a bag inflated by a tube with valves
Bodhran
Celtic wooden drum and played with a wooden beater. Found in Scottish music
Celtic Rock
Blend of Scottish folk music and rock
Clarsach
Small scottish harp
Drone
Note held or repeated in the bass. Bagpipes and Sitar have a drone
Fiddle
Violin when playing scottish music
Folk group
Group of singers and instrumentalists who perform traditional scottish music
Jig
Fast Scottish dance with 6 beats in the bar
March
Scottish dance with 2 or 4 beats in the bar
Pibroch
Solo bagpipe
Pipe band
A band consisting of bagpipes and drums, usually play a march
Reel
Fast Scottish dance with 4 beats in the bar
Scottish dance band
A band that plays Scottish music to dance to (Play reels, jigs ect.)
Scotch Snap
Short then a long note. Used is strathspeys
Scottish
Traditional Scottish music
Strathspey
Slow Scottish dance with 4 beats in the bar. Features a Scotch Snap
Voice
Human instrument
Waltz
Slow Scottish dance with 3 beats in the bar
Bothy Ballad
Folk song with many verses that sings about rural/farming life
Gaelic Psalm
Hymn which are sung in Gaelic unaccompanied
Sounds bad
Mouth Music
Rhythmical songs used for dancing when there’s no instruments
Mixture of words and vocables
Scots Ballad
Slow scottish song that tells a story about something sad
Waulking song
Gaelic call and response work song with a beating of a cloth
