Learning Intentions • To recognise different types of instruments, groups, songs and dances in Scottish music
• To develop an understanding of the social and cultural influences of Scottish Music.
• To develop my concept knowledge and my listening skills in a different context. Success Criteria • I am able to recognise different instruments used in Scottish Music.
• I am able to identify the difference between Scottish dances.
• I am able to identify the difference between Scottish songs.
• I am able to identify concepts within Scottish music excerpts and use appropriate language to justify my choice. With your shoulder partner or in your small groups discuss:
What do you think of when someone says Scottish music?
Do you think of any particular instruments? Places you have heard it before? Styles of music? Musicians? Bands? Composers? Accordion Bagpipes
Fiddle Clarsach Bagpipes
A musical instrument with a flexible bag and three drone pipes.
Drone = One note held on or repeated in the bass The Bagpipes Drone
Mouth -piece Bag Blowpipe
Chanter Music for solo bagpipe, in theme and variation form, with grace notes.
Grace note = a very quick note before the main note in a melody. Used for decoration. Accordion
An instrument with a keyboard, buttons and bellows in the middle. Fiddle
Another name for the violin. High pitched.
They can be played in two ways: Arco = using a bow Pizzicato = plucking the strings
Watch the video on the following slide to hear the fiddle. The Fiddle Clarsach
A small Scottish harp, used in folk music. Played by plucking (pizzicato) the strings.
Listen to the clarsach in this example accompanying the singer. Snare Drum
Piano
Guitar
Bodhran Snare Drum
• An Untuned Percussion instrument.
• Played as a solo instrument, part of a drum kit or part of a Pipe Band.
• A technique used by drummers is a roll. (A very fast repetition of a note on a percussion instrument)
In this example listen to the snare drum rolls at the beginning. Bodhran
A low pitched drum used in folk music, held in one hand and played with a wooden beater.
Players can change the pitch by moving their other hand around the back of the drum. Bodhran Piano
A keyboard instrument which produces sounds by hammers hitting strings.
Vamp = a rhythmic accompaniment with a bass note on the beat and a chord off the beat. Guitar ▪ All types of guitars are now used in Scottish music. ▪ Electric instruments are common in celtic rock. Guitars played in a folk group… Instruments in Scottish Music
Accordion Arco Bagpipes Blowing Bowing Clarsach Drone Fiddle Pizzicato Plucking
1. I can hear the ______playing the melody. 2. I can hear the ______playing the melody. 3. I can hear the ______playing the melody. 4. I can hear the ______playing the melody. Pentatonic
A 5 note scale which Scottish music is often based on.
Think of the 5 black notes on a keyboard. Starter Quiz on Scottish Music INSTRUMENTS… ⚫ 1) What do you call the continuous sound heard in bagpipe music?
⚫ 2) Name the Scottish term for a violin?
⚫ 3) What do you call a piano accompaniment with a bass note followed by a chord?
⚫ 4) What is the name for a small Scottish harp?
⚫ 5) Name the instruments we have listened to while studying Scottish music. Starter Quiz on Scottish Music INSTRUMENTS… ⚫ 1) What do you call the continuous sound heard on bagpipe music? ⚫ Answer: DRONE ⚫ 2) Name the Scottish term for a violin? ⚫ Answer: FIDDLE ⚫ 3) What do you call a piano accompaniment with a bass note followed by a chord? ⚫ Answer: VAMP ⚫ 4) What is the name for a small Scottish harp? ⚫ Answer: CLARSACH ⚫ 5) Name the instruments we have listened to while studying scottish music. ⚫ Answer: BAGPIPES, FIDDLE, CLARSACH, ACCORDION, SNARE DRUM, PIANO, GUITAR AND BODHRAN
Ceremonial music is provided in Scotland by bands of pipes and drums.
Pipe bands play mostly marches, strathspeys and reels.
A group who performs traditional music from a certain country, e.g. Scotland and Ireland. Scottish folk instruments might include fiddle, whistle, guitar, accordion and bagpipes. Folk Groups always have a singer. A band which plays music for people to dance to. Instruments may include fiddle, accordion, piano and drum kit. No singer. A style of music that mixes Celtic folk music and rock together. Listen to this example from Skerryvore. EXIT NOTES!
Pass to your teacher on the way out of the class ☺
- Write down one thing you learned today - What did you enjoy? - Was there anything you did not enjoy?
A Scottish dance with: • Four beats in the bar • Dotted rhythms • Scotch snap. • Simple time and a slow tempo.
Simple Time – each beat diving into 2 Scotch Snap = a short note followed by a long note. Listen to the strathspey being played as you watch these Scottish country dancers. A Scottish Dance with: • Simple time • Fast tempo. • 2 or 4 beats per bar
Also known as a “running reel” because of the fast tempo and running quavers. • Fast tempo. • Compound time. • 2 beats in a bar, with each beat dividing into 3.
Listen to this excerpt and try saying ‘jig-i-ty, jig-i-ty’ along to the music.
Or… Blazin’ Fiddles play ‘The Jigs’ The only Scottish dance with 3 beats in a bar (3/4).
It has a Vamp Accompaniment (Oom Pah Pah).
It has a slow tempo. Marches are in or
=SIMPLE Time
Music with a strong steady pulse and at a speed which is suitable to march to. Simple Time = each beat dividing into 2. “simple, simple” etc.
Compound Time = each beat dividing into 3. “Jig-i-ty, jig-i-ty” etc. Dances Revision
Identify the dance in each excerpt.
1.The dance is ______2.The dance is ______3.The dance is ______4.The dance is ______5.The dance is ______
Strathspey March Reel Jig Waltz Scots Ballad Sung by women who at work “waulking” tweed.
Unaccompanied, sung in Gaelic with a Question & Answer structure.
A strong beat is heard in the background as the tweed is hit off the table. Made up nonsense words to imitate instruments.
Upbeat and sung for dancing to.
Unaccompanied because instruments were banned. A Scottish song, sung in English, to tell a story.
Usually accompanied and can tell any type of story. A Bothy is an old Scottish outhouse, where farm workers lived.
Usually sung by men and unaccompanied.
Sung with a strong Scots dialect – ALWAYS tells a story of working life on a farm. Church hymns sung in Gaelic – unaccompanied.
Question & Answer form – minister starts singing and the congregation try to copy.
This sounds awful because most people couldn’t read or write, so they had to try and copy the minister!
Accordion Fiddle Bagpipes Bodhran
Scotch SCOTTISH Snap Drone MUSIC
Pizzicato Arco
Pibroch Grace Scottish Celtic Notes Folk Dance Rock Groups Band Dotted Rhythms Vamp Learning Intentions • To recognise different types of instruments, groups, songs and dances in Scottish music
• To develop an understanding of the social and cultural influences of Scottish Music.
• To develop my concept knowledge and my listening skills in a different context. Success Criteria • I am able to recognise different instruments used in Scottish Music.
• I am able to identify the difference between Scottish dances.
• I am able to identify the difference between Scottish songs.
• I am able to identify concepts within Scottish music excerpts and use appropriate language to justify my choice.