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Features of West African music?
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Repitition, improvisation, call and respons, layers.
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What does Yiri mean? Why is the piece called this?
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Means wood, probably beacause majority of instruments made from wood.
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Instrumentation?
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Balafons (high and low), djembe and talking drum. Vocals (soloist and chorus)
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Structure?
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3 sections:
1. intro - balafon solo with tremelo 2. Main - ostinato, clear pulse, balafon solos and choruses. Vocal solo and call and response. 3. Coda - short phrase for balafon. Played 5 times. Drum ostinato interrupted by rests and bell = end. |
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Melody?
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Balafons play short patterns, fall from high to low. Emphasise Gb and Db. Solo breaks making more virtuosic. In chorus sing in unison.
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Harmony?
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Hexatonic (without F)
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Tonality?
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Gb major
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Rhythm?
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Mainly 4/4. Free tempo, maintains steady pulse. Syncopation, cross rhythms. Vocalists use triplets. Drums use ostinato, djembe plays fills.
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Texture?
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Layered texture, but also monophonic texture in intro. Some heterophonic textures when 2 balafons play different versions of same tune at same time.
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Dynamics?
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Little variation.
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