UNIT 4
SCOTTISH MUSIC

TRADITIONAL SONGS _________________________________________________________________________________________________

LESSON TWO

In this lesson you are going to work some musical aspects with Scottish songs.

DUMBARTON'S DRUMS

Activity 1 Teachers' guide

Answer these questions:
a. This song is sung:

A capella

With instruments

 

 

b. This song is:

Monophonic

Polyphonic

 

 

c. This song is sung in:

Two Parts

Three Parts

 

 

DUMBARTON'S DRUMS

Verse one   My love he is a handsome laddie,   And though he is Dumbarton's caddie   Some day I'll be a captain's lady,   When Johnnie tends his vow to me.      Verse Two   Across the fields of bounding heather,   Dumbarton sounds the hour of pleasure;   The joy I know will know no measure,   When Johnnie kneels and kisses me.   Verse Three   'Tis he alone that can delight me,   His roving eye it doth invite me;   And when his tender arms enfold me,   The blackest night doth turn and flee.

Chorus   Dumbarton's drums, they sound so bonnie   And they remind me o' my Johnnie;   What fond delight doth steal upon me   When Johhnie kneels and kisses me.

 

Activity 2

Underline with blue pen those parts that are sung in unison.
Underline with red pen those parts that are sung in two parts.

Compare with your partner.

Activity 3

a. What is the time signature of the song?

2/4

3/4

 

b. What is the musical form of the song?

A B A B

A A A A

 

 

Activity 4

Game. Follow the rules.
1. Write all the words of the song you don't know.
2. Look for their meaning in the dictionary.
3. Divide the class into groups
4. One group asks for the meaning of one word to another group. If this group gets the right answer it will get 1 point. If not, the first group will get the point, will answer the question and start to ask the next group.

 

MAIRI'S WEDDING

Activity 5 Teachers' guide

Listen to the song and sort out the jumped paragraphs. Try to find out the chorus first, and write out the 2 numbers in the box below.

1	Fairest o' them a' by far,   Is our darling Mairi.	5	Plenty bonny bairns as well   That's the toast for Mairi.
2	Plenty herring, plenty meal   Plenty peat to fill her creel,	6	Red her cheeks as rowans are,   Bright her eye as any star,
3	Step it gaily, on we go   Heel for heel and toe for toe,	7	Over hillways up and down   Myrtle green and bracken brown,
4	Arm in arm and row on row   All for Mairi's wedding.	8	Through the sheiling through the town   All for sake of Mairi.

 

Chorus
Verse 1
Verse 2
Verse 3

 

Activity 6

Answer these questions:
a. This song is accompanied by:

Flute

Bass

Guitar

b. This song is:

Monophonic

Homophonic

Polyphonic

c. This song is sung in:

Two Parts

Three Parts

Four Parts

d. What is the time signature of the song?

2/4

3/4

4/4

 

f. What is the musical form of the song?

A B A C A

A B A B

A A A A

 

 

Activity 7

Write the words you are able to remember with no help.

Music words	Translation		Non music words	Translation