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Scottish Music Flashcards

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What are the features of a Waltz?

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  • 3/4 time
  • slow dance
  • steady tempo
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What are the features of a Strathspey?

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  • Dance in 4/4 time
  • Steady tempo
  • Features dotted rhythms and scotch snaps
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What are the features of a Reel?

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  • Much faster dance
  • Reely Reely fast
  • 4/4 time - simple
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What are the features of a Jig?

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  • Fast dance in 6/8 time - compound

* Strawberry,Strawberry, Strawberry

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What are the features of a March?

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  • Usually features a pipe band

* 2 or 4 beats in the bar - simple time

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Name the 5 Scottish Dances

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Waltz Strathspey Reel Jig March

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What are the 3 Scottish Ensembles?

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  • Scottish Dance Band
  • Folk Group
  • Celtic Rock
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What is a Scottish Dance Band!?

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A Scottish Dance Band is like a Ceilidh Band. It is made up of Accordions, Keyboards, Guitars, Fiddles and Drum Kit

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What is a Folk Group?

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A group of instrumentalists who perform traditional music from their country. eg Scotland

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What is Celtic Rock?

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A group of musicians who perform Celtic music in a rock style

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Name instruments used in Scottish Music?

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  • Fiddle
  • Clarsach
  • Bodhran
  • Bagpipes
  • Accordion
  • Flute/Whistle
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What are the types of Scottish Vocal Music?

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Scots Ballad 
Bothy Ballad 
Mouth Music  
Waulking Song
Gaelic Psalm
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What is a Scots Ballad?

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A slow Scottish song which tells a story. It is usually sung by a man or woman

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What is a Bothy Ballad?

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A folk song with many verses. It tells a story of rural or farming life. Sung by a man. No accompanying instruments. Accapella

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What is mouth music?

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Gaelic nonsense sung in imitation of the bagpipes as an accompaniment to dancing. Accapella

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What is a Waulking Song?

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A rhytmic song sung in gaelic by the women in the Western Isles of Scotland while they beat cloth in time to the music.

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What is a Gaelic Psalm?

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Sung unaccompanied. The leader sings a line of the psalm and the congregation sing the same line back. This is called call and response.

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