POINTS OF INTEREST:

Use of 80s technology The 'Concept album'. HOUNDS OF LOVE Personal singer- Songwriter tendencies Eclectic music roots Kate Bush (1985) The 'home studio' The pop song: conventional and unconventional elements ‘CLOUDBUSTING’, ‘AND DREAM OF SHEEP’ AND ‘UNDER ICE’

STRUCTURE: CONTEXT: SONORITY:

Main features of basic pop song Was the first British female artist to top the UK album charts, with Distinctive vocals structure: Verses, choruses/refrains, 'Never for Ever.' Fairlight CMI (cutting edge instrumentals/bridges, codas. Songs are often inspired by literary or historical sources eg. Wuthering technology in 80s) triggering Cloudbusting and And Dream of Heights; Emily Bronte novel. samples Sheep lack an intro. Received training in dance and mime. Incorporates into her art. Mostly conventional pop/rock band Under Ice is through-composed. Eclectic music roots: progressive rock, folk, ethnic styles, electronica set up with some additions: Songs are part of a concept album, : and classical forms. Unconventional combinations: Cloudbusting is 7 min long- longer Hounds of Love: Composed, performed and Self produced in her string sextet (cloudbusting), than traditional pop song. home studio Bouzouki and whistles (And Dream And Dream of Sheep and Under Ice of Sheep) are short, follow one another and Cloudbusting does not use bass or TEXTURE: HARMONY AND contain similar material. TONALITY: electric guitar and non-virtuosic drum beat. Tonal language, thought not Melody-dominated straightforwardly diatonic or MELODY: homophony RHYTHM, METRE functional. Cloudbusting: homorhythmic AND TEMPO: Modal minor keys strings, countermelodies in V2, Distinctive unpredictable melodic Ambiguous endings Strong sense of pulse polyphony in chorus, construction. Unconventional chord progressions, Regular and planned changes of Pedal textures in And Dream Short phrases, improvisatory, and few perfect cadences metre of Sheep and Under Ice. repetitive and short in length Repeated chord sequences Frequent syncopation in vocal Under Ice: Homorhythm and Hook (Cloudbusting) Added notes, extension chords, lines dialoguing. Riffs used as unifying feature suspensions and slash chords Unprepared anticipations and Word painting Modal chord sequences. suspensions ♫♩ rhythm commonly used.