Afro Celt Sound System: Release Flashcards
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Afro Celt: Background Information
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- ‘Release’ Album in 1999
- African, celtic folk and electric dance music
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Afro Celt: Structure
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- verse form
- into, v1, v2, solos, v3, build, outro
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Afro Celt: Harmony
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- uses repeating chord sequances
- drone is in C minor
- mainly diatonic
- some chromatic notes play an ascending chromatic line
- some extended chords
- harmonic rhythm is slow-common to dance music
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Afro Celt: Melody
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- fiddle melody uses double stopping
- solos are by uilleann pipe, whistle and hurdy gurdy
- melody lines are all short phrases
- some vocal parts include vocal samples
Vocals: - glissando slides
- males vocal have a bigger range (13th)
- repetitive
- female vocals have limited range (6th) and sounds improvised
- acciaccatura
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Afro Celt: Tonality
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- C minor
- has a modal feel at times
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Afro Celt: Texture
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- homophonic
- start is monophonic
- lots of layers of loops and give it a polyphonic feel
- loops drop in and out regularly making the texture constantly change
- texture builds up by adding one loop at a time
- outro has heterophonic feel with instruments playing different variations
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Afro Celt: Tempo
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- start of piece is in free time
- when the bodran comes in, a steady tempo of 100bpm is set
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Afro Celt: Rhythm and Metre
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- syncopation throughout
- 4/4 common to dance
- repeating rhythmic riffs/ ostinato pattern
- repeating rhythms are mostly 2 and 4 bar loops
- triplets and sextuplets are used in this piece
- semiquavers are slightly swung giving the piece a relaxed quality
- same notes are accented to make them louder
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Afro Celt: Instrumentation
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General - reverb on vocals Celtic - fiddle - bodhran - uilleann pipes - hurdy gurdy - whistle - accordian African - kora - talking drum Playing Techniques - glissando - ornamentation - double stopping - open and closed hi-hat
