Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Yiri
- Means 'Wood'
- Most of the instruments are made from wood
- INSTRUMENTATION
- Balafons
- Tremalo
- Ostinato
- Djembe
- Singers
- Soloist
- Chorus
- Talking drums
- Cow bell
- ORIGINS
- From West Africa
- Burkino Faso
- Learnt through oral traditions
- Koko
- 6 members
- FEATURES
- Call and Response
- Vocalist calls
- Chorus responds
- Improvisation
- Syncopation
- Vocal
- Balaphone
- Repetition
- Ostinati
- Talking drums
- Polyrhythms
- BASIC FEATURES
- Key
- G flat Major
- Hexatonic
- Little dynamic change
- Tempo doesn't vary
- TEXTURE
- Begins monophonic
- Balafon
- Polyphonic
- Second balaphon
- Heterophonic
- STRUCTURE
- Beginning
- Balafon solo
- Improvised
- 2nd Balafon joins
- Drums join
- Ostinati
- Call and Response
- Chorus
- Vocal
- Coda
- Repeated phrase
- Cow bell