Techniques Flashcards
fusion music
Fusion music is its own genre of music. Fusion is a blend of two or more styles of music.
Structure
- Intro
- Verse 1
- break
- Verse 2
5.solo - Verse 3
- Drum break and build
- outro
Melody - voice
Female vocal = 2 bar descending phrase, starts on the second beat of the bar, repeated 4 times.
Male vocal - takes on the females vocal part, repeats x2 in rising melodic sequence.
Melody - Instrumentation
Instrument solos - influenced by irish folk, as demonstrated in the semiquaver rhythms.
Uilleann pipes and low whistle solos = mixture of conjunct + Disjunct movement; low whistle solo includes shorter rhythms ( eg- triplets) The Hurdy Gurdy solo includes much wider leaps (eg - octaves)
Conjunct
a melody that moves by steps
disjunct
a melody that moves in leaps
triplets
a group of three equal length notes played in the space of two.
octaves
interval of eight notes, eg middle c to the c above
Rhythm
The bodhran performs a syncopated and swung ostinato that starts on the strong beat but is syncopated on beat 4.
Different instruments performing layered contrasting rhythms + creates polyrhythm effect.
Cross-rhythm is heard when tambourine plays continuous semiquavers at the same time as the fiddle plays triplet semiquavers
Syncopation
Rhythm patterns where stressed notes are placed off the beat.
Swing
a jazz style in which notes are always syncopated rather than played evenly
Ostinato
a musical phrase which repeats
Polyrhythm
Conflicting rhythms being played at the same time
cross-rhythm
an effect created when 2 or more conflicting rhythms are heard at same time. Eg- one may be in simple time and another in triple time.
Metre
The song starts without a regular metre (free time). However, when the shaker enters, followed by the bodhran , a strict 4 beats per bar is nurtured.
