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Kate Bush, Hounds Of Love Flashcards

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What was Bush’s background?
What did this mean?
What styles influenced her?

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Irish background
Traditional Irish music prevalent
Rock, classic, jazz, world

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What tech did Bush use?

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Fairlight CMI
Creates electric sounds

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Similarity between all instrumentation
‘Cloudbusting’

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Synthesised or treated

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Sonority
‘Cloudbusting’

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Strings (synthesised)
Drums (synthesised)
Bouzouki
Treated vocal samples
Sampling

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When is the bouzouki used?
What is it?
‘Cloudbusting’

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Bars 8-9
Long necked mandolin, Irish

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How are the vocal samples treated?
‘Cloudbusting’

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Voice put through CMI
Gives weird vocal output

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What plays the chords?
Describe the chords
Describe the chord pattern
‘Cloudbusting’

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Stri FB s
Block, staccato, detached (WL = Eleanor Rigby (same genre + time), psycho)
Regular

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What is referenced through the lyrics throughout?
‘Cloudbusting’

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Book about sons mad father who believed he could control the weather with a machine
“You’re like my yo-yo, buried in the garden”

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What is ‘Cloudbusting’ lacking (sonority/texture)?

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Traditional backing accomp

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What drums are used in bar 93?
How do they enter?
‘Cloudbusting’

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Marching band/military
Fade in
(Unrelated influence to book)

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How is “happen” sung?
What bar?
‘Cloudbusting’

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Falls off
107

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What is depicted in the last 2 bars?
How?
‘Cloudbusting’

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Machine working
Steam engine sample chug beats out of time
Sows and pulls back piece

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How are the drums and percussion used?

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Restricted
Percussion = little to no

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What is the main accomp?

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Synthesised string sextet accomp

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What music tech is used throughout?
‘Cloudbusting’

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Keyboard and CMI samples

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Range of Bush’s vocals
Means?
‘Cloudbusting’

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Alto range of 10th
Not virtuosic

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How is the melody sung?
‘Cloudbusting’

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Non-melismatic
Almost speaking rhythm

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What are the backing vocals?
‘Cloudbusting’

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Bush vocals
Wordless
Chanting

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Structure of ‘Cloudbusting’

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Verse
Bridge
Chorus

Verse
Bridge
Chorus

Instrumental
Chorus
Outro

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Texture of ‘Cloudbusting’

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Mostly homophonic
More polyphonic in chorus

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What is counterpoint?
‘Cloudbusting’

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2 melodies at same time with differences
One more technical than other
WL = Debussy No.2

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What is the mode throughout?
How is the beginning key strange?
Quote
‘Cloudbusting’

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Mode rather than key
Modal C#m

Triassic E major, but in Em
“I still dream”

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What are the 2 chord sequences?
Describe
‘Cloudbusting’

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Chorus = C#m7 - Badd9 - F#7(sus4) - Badd9
Verse + bridges = 3rd chord is A6/9
Clear

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What makes ‘Cloudbusting’ uncomfortable?

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Unprepared 7ths

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Syncopation meaning What is syncopated? ‘Cloudbusting’
Off beat Slightly in Cloudbusting
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Describe the tempo How is the tempo loosened in the bridge? ‘Cloudbusting’
Quick, almost double time Uses 3/2 time but noted as 6/4
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How is a string pulse created? How do the string rhythms progress? ‘Cloudbusting’
Quaver rhythm Become more active throughout
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Style of ‘and dream of sheep’
Lullaby/ballad (reminiscent of early career)
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What does ‘and dream of sheep’ set up/lead into? How is word painting created? WL
‘Under ice’ As tessitura lowers on “deeper and deeper” Under ice = dream of falling through ice Beatles ‘sgt. pepper’ Sinatra ‘in the wee small hours’
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Samples used in ‘and dream of sheep’
Shipping forecast, 45 seconds in “Come here with me now” = seer like, luring
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Structure of ‘and dream of sheep’
Through composed Not conventional pop structure
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Wha leaps does the RH piano and voice have? When? ‘and dream of sheep’
Octave 8th leap Bar 1, 5, 20
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How are 5ths used? When? ‘and dream of sheep’
Rising and falling No 3rd so not maj or min Not conventional rules of harmony Throughout
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Double tracked meaning What instrument is double tracked? What does it cause? ‘and dream of sheep’
Recorded multiple times over each other but same Whistle Builds texture/bigger sound
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What is lacking structurally? ‘and dream of sheep’
No intro
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Difference of piano in verse ‘and dream of sheep’
Style more dramatic + involved
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When is there a pause? Effect WL ‘and dream of sheep’
Bar 47 N.C = no chord Dramatic Courtney Pine ‘inner state of mind’: “next flex” pause “unacceptable”
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Describe the ending ‘and dream of sheep’
Ambiguous final chord Common for KB Ends on dominant (v) note of scale, doesn’t sound finished (no finishing cadence)
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What is the texture focused on? Element of? ‘and dream of sheep’
Vocal line Ballad
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What instruments are paired together? ‘and dream of sheep’
Piano + voice Whistle + bouzouki
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Texture of ‘and dream of sheep’
Homophonic
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What pedal is used? When? ‘and dream of sheep’
Tonic bass E pedal Several sections
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Tone of verses Refrain + bridge ‘and dream of sheep’
Modal C#m Cloudbusting has that mode throughout Relative Emaj
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Ending tone ‘and dream of sheep’
Ends inconclusively in Emaj Finished of B of Emaj chord
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What is the opening modal sequence? Refrain chord progression ‘and dream of sheep’
C#m7 - F#m/A - B Traditional I, II, V, I
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What melodic sequence does the verse open with? ‘and dream of sheep’
2 rising 5ths
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How is the refrain back and forth esque ‘and dream of sheep’
Ascending minor 3rd
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Tempo End tempo Metre (+ exception) ‘and dream of sheep’
Slow ballad tempo is 50/80(?) Rit (common for KB) Simple 5/4 at bar 51(3rd last) for dramatic affect
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Rhythm ‘and dream of sheep’
Lost of syncopation throughout
50
Sonority of ‘under ice’
Voice and CMI only All synthesised Limited budget so no live strings etc
51
Example of hounds of love being a concept album (rhythm) ‘under ice’
Accomp quaver rhythm same as Cloudbusting Diff mood
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Tessitura ‘under ice’
Low KB = alto Refrain sections with lower choir to male voice
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When are melismas used? When + why is a tremolo used? ‘under ice’
27-28 “trees” 16-17 “ over” Bar 46 In voice Represents shivering
54
Texture of ‘under ice’
Through composed Little clarity of verse- chorus structure Based on repetition of ideas
55
Metre of ‘under ice’
Starts 4/4 Bar 7 3/4
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What scale does the melody use? WL ‘under ice’
Pentatonic VW
57
What is a pedal note? Describe the ‘under ice’ pedal note
Low held note Articulated, accented, obsessive crotchet bass pedal note
58
Who is the 1st sting part harmonically ambiguous? ‘under ice’
Open 5ths Not maj or min
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What is homo rhythmic in refrain? ‘under ice’
Voice + string melody accomp
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End chord ‘under ice’
Ambiguous Sus 2 chord
61
KB self taught means
Not constrained by functional harmony + chord progressions => non-functional harmony, opp to Bach
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What chord sequences occur throughout? Chord sequence Describe phrases ‘under ice’
Lots 2-4 bar Fmaj7# - Dm9 - A(Sus2) - Am/C Short
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Key of ‘under ice’ Tone
A natural minor (only white notes) Occasional Dmaj chord (has F# black note) bar 54 Modal A minor No key changes
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Conjunct meaning Melodic range ‘Under ice’
Small stepwise movement Restricted
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What suggests feelings of entrapment + panic of character? ‘Under ice’
Short staccato refrain like ideas
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Temo: Beginning Accels to Then Last 4 bars ‘Under ice’
65bpm 100 108 Rit

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