Hounds of love -Kate Bush

• 'Cloudbusting'


  • The song is in C# minor with no modulation
  • Follows a verse and chorus pattern with instrumentals
• 'Under Ice'
• 'Under Ice'

  1. Through-composed with alternating fragmentary sections:

  2. Bars 1-8

  3. Bars 8-13

  4. Bars 14-18

  5. Bars 19-24

  6. Bars 24-29

  7. Bars 30-39

  8. Bars 40-45

  9. Bars 46-58

  10. Set works: Motif 1 and coda
• 'And Dream of Sheep'

  1. Bridge

  2. Chorus

  3. Instrumental involving synthesised melody

  4. Chorus

  5. Instrumental and coda featuring chorus material and Bvox

  6. Section: Verse, Link 1, Verse, Link 2, Coda
• 'And Dream of Sheep'
• 'Under Ice'


  • The song is in A minor
  • Tonality is clouded at the end by chromaticism and background electronic effects
• 'And Dream of Sheep'


  • The song is in E major throughout
  • Loosely strophic structure
• 'Cloudbusting'
• 'Cloudbusting'


  1. Verse from Bars 1-15

  2. Bridge from Bars 15-19

  3. Chorus from Bars 19-36

  4. Verse from Bars 36-40

  5. Section from Bars 40-53
• Additional synthesised line at bar 65


  • Longer note values
• Portamento is mentioned
• Song 'Under Ice'

  • Unusual atmospheric timbres created through synthesised strings and low vocal tessitura
• Texture in 'And Dream of Sheep'

  Broken-chord figures
• Song 'Cloudbusting'


  • Distinctive timbre is the string sextet
  • Occasional appearances of balalaika
• Song 'Under Ice'

  • Tempo speeds up from 65 beats per minute to 108 and then slows at the close
  • Largely irregular metre alternating between quadruple and triple time sections
  • Prominent rhythmic features include a two quaver-crotchet pattern, two-note figure with longer second note, long-sustained synth pad, Scotch snaps, and triplets
• Song 'Cloudbusting'

  • Modal, based in C# aeolian minor with occasional focus on B major
  • Lead vocal is a minor 10th
  • Word setting is predominantly syllabic
  • Melodic features include violin's opening narrow-range motif, violin's counter-melody, additional melody line in keyboard 2, and Bvox vocalisation with leap of minor 7th
• Texture in 'Under Ice'

  Lean sound created by fragmentary vocal line, supported by bass octaves and two-part synthesised string motifs mainly in 4ths
• Violin counter-melody beginning in bar 34


  • Longer note values
• Song 'And Dream of Sheep'

  • Most conventional popular music timbre with voice and piano dominating
  • Additional parts for bouzouki and whistles
  • Intensified sound by the use of dubbed voices
• Unusual atmospheric timbres are created in 'Under Ice' through the use of synthesised strings and a low vocal tessitura
• Texture in 'Cloudbusting'

  1. Melody-dominated homophony predominates

  2. Persistent detached chords for strings

  3. Fragmentary patterns on keyboard

  4. Counter-melody in octaves in the violin

  5. Expansion of texture with sustained semibreves
• Song 'Dream of Sheep'

  • Moderately slow quadruple metre with occasional changes of signature
  • Rubato, rits, and fermata employed
  • Use of rhythm, triplets, and Scotch snap
• Kate Bush (b.1958) is a performer and composer of progressive rock
• Counter-melody in octaves in the violin

  • Expansion of texture with the three lowest strings and keyboard 3 providing sustained semibreves
  • Broken-chord figures in 'And Dream of Sheep'
  • The lean sound in 'Under Ice' is created by the fragmentary vocal line, supported by bass octaves and two-part synthesised string motifs, mainly in 4ths and 5ths; a soft synth pad sounds throughout
• 'Under Ice' is a short score, with parts indicated as required on three or four staves
• The album 'Hounds of Love' was produced by Bush in her own studio
• Tempo, metre and rhythm in 'Cloudbusting'

  1. This song is in a moderate, rather mechanical strict time. The time signature is mainly quadruple, with occasional changes (to and 2). Rhythmic features include: Constant crotchet beat established at the start by the strings

  2. Steady, reinforcing crotchet drum-beats from bar 11

  3. Backbeat

  4. Mechanical patterns in the violin (see bar 3)
• In the Anthology, staff notation is used with guitar chords indicated above the system. Speeds are indicated in beats per minute, but variations in tempo type of layout, as follows: and dynamic signs are given in a traditional form
• 'Cloudbusting' is based on incidents in the life and career of the psychologist Wilhelm Reich
• 'Cloudbusting' is based on Kate Bush's reading of Peter Reich's 'A Book of Dreams', and in particular the imprisonment and death of psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) in the USA
• 'Cloudbusting' is a full score. The string sextet parts are mainly printed on two staves, but occasionally the more active violin parts are allotted a separate stave. Parts for voice, backing vocals, three keyboards, balalaika and percussion are scored separately
• The album 'Hounds of Love' was released in 1985 and draws on vocals, piano (played by Bush), balalaika, string sextet, bouzouki and uilleann pipes
• Kate Bush's music sometimes contains Irish elements, stemming from her family connections
• 'And Dream of Sheep' is notated for voice and piano, with additional staves introduced as required for bouzouki and whistles
• 'And Dream of Sheep' and 'Under Ice' depict the thoughts of a drowning girl