Scottish Music

What is a Waltz?

• a dance in triple time performed by a couple, who as a pair turn rhythmically round and round as they progress around the dance floor.

• a lively dance with leaping movements.

• a variety of country dance in which the dancers perform traveling figures alternating with “setting” steps danced in one place. Reels may be for sets of two or more couples.

What is a vamp

• A type of music involving drums and bagpipes

• A repeating musical figure or accompaniment
• Solo bagpipe music

• Music including a fiddle

What is a Fiddle?

• a bowed string musical instrument.

• The guitar is a stringed musical instrument, that is usually fretted and typically has six or twelve strings.

• a keyboard instrument that produces sound when the keys are pressed.

• a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag.

What is a bagpipe?

• a percussion instrument similar to a drum with commonly used in folk music

• a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag.

• a simple six-holed woodwind instrument.

What is an Accordion?

• a small Scottish harp used in folk music

• A drum used in folk music held in one hand and played with a wooden beater

• An instrument with a keyboard played with the right hand and buttons pressed with the left

• an untuned percussion instrument

What is a march?

• Rock music that includes Scottish instruments

• Music with 3 beats in a bar that has a vamp accompany

• A music concept with 2 or 4 beats in a bar that has a quick tempo

• A music concept with a steady pace usually in 2 or 4 beats in a bar

What instruments are Scottish?

• Bagpipes

• Maracas

• Electric guitar

• Fiddle

What does a Scottish Dance band include?

• Harps and flutes

• Trombones and saxophones

• Electric guitars and synthesizers

• Instruments such as fiddles, bagpipes, accordion, piano, and drums.

What is Pizzicato?

• Plucking the strings

• Bowing the strings

What is a Scottish pipe band?

• A Scottish pipe band is a type of Scottish dance group

• A Scottish pipe band is a musical ensemble consisting of pipers and drummers who play traditional Scottish music.

• A Scottish pipe band is a type of Scottish Rock music

• A Scottish pipe band is a type of Scottish band with a electric guitar