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Mouth music

Description

Breabach perform ‘Murdo Took The Stoop’ live in the studio, led by fiddle-player Megan Henderson on vocals. Megan introduces the clip and talks about the art of Mouth Music singing (or Puirt à beul in Gaelic). Features the following concepts - voice, flute, bagpipes, drone, repetition, unison, folk group, fiddle.

Classroom Ideas

This clip could be used when studying the music of Scotland, to deepen knowledge and understanding of the differences between the types of song. Learners could choose a track - mouth music or one of the other types of song, e.g. Scots ballad - and do a presentation to the others in the class, describing key concepts within and why they have chosen the track.