Nat5 Scottish music

• the classical form of the highland bagpipe in theme and variation form

  Pibroch
• Celtic Rock


  A style that mixes Celtic folk music and rock
• Bothy ballad

  An unaccompanied folk song, usually with many verses
• Waulking song

  Gaelic work song sung when beating tweed, call and response
• Gaelic psalm

  Slow, unaccompanied gaelic church tunes
• Grace note

  A type of ornament, played as a quick crushed note before the main note of a melody, used as a decoratiom
• Clarsach

  Small Scottish harp
• Bodhran

  A celtic wooden drum held in one hand and played with a wooden beater
• Bothy ballad


  Unaccompanied song, in Scot’s, men singing about farming life
• Gaelic psalm

  Unaccompanied hymn sung in Gaelic by the congregation and a leader
• scots ballad


  Similar to both ballad however may or may not be accompanied and tells a story
• Strophic 


  Each verse of a vocal piece has the same music
• Pentatonic scale 


  A scale with only 5 notes per octave
• Melismatic


  Several notes to one syllable of text
• Ground bass 


  Short reacurring melodic pattern in a bass
• Aria


  Operatic solo
• Syllabic


  One note per syllable