Scottish Vocal Music

Question 1

Gaelic Music

Answer 1

•Mouth Music
• Waulking Song
•Gaelic Psalm

Question 2

Scots Music

Answer 2

•Bothy Ballad
•Scots Ballad

Question 3

The four Ss

Scots Ballad

Answer 3

• Stories and tales put to song. Tell dramatic stories of war, love and betrayal, magic and trickery or strange events.
• Often used as bed time stories to teach children about manners and life.
• People didn’t join in, they just listened to the story.
• Often very serious songs.
  4Ss: Slow, Solo, Sung in Scots, Strophic as they often contained a story line

Question 4

Bothy Ballad

Answer 4

• A bothy is an outhouse in a farm. It is where the employees of the farm lived.
• Strophic
• Simple chorus to allow people to join in easily.
• A capella (unaccompanied)
• Sung in Scots
• Songs about working on the farm

Question 5

Gaelic Psalm

Answer 5

Religious music
Found in churches on Scottish islands.

• Led by a caller or presenter and the congregation responds.
• The congregation will add their own embellishments and sing it back in their own style.
• Lyrics are Psalms from the bible.
• A capella
• Call and response
• Very distinctive sound

Question 6

Waulking Song

Answer 6

• A rhythmic song sung in Gaelic by the women while they waulked tweed.
• They were drying and stretching the tweed ready to make clothes.
• They all had to do it at the same time because if the tweed ripped it was very expensive to replace in those days.
• A capella
• Sung in Gaelic
• Strophic
• Features a call and response
• Steady beat which kept all the workers in time
• Sung by women