Zusammenfassung der Ressource
A4 - Yiri
- Instrumentation
- Melodic
- Balafon
- Plays Tremelo
- Voices
- Drums
- Djembe
- Donno / Talking Drum
- Dundun
- Other
- Piece ends
with TamTam
- Maracas
- Flute
- Features of
African Music
- Repetition / Ostinato
- Improvisation
- Polyphonic Texture
- Call & Response
- Polyrhythms
- Cross-Rhythms
- Syncopated Rhythms
- Oral
Tradition
- Structure
- Introduction
- 1. Solo Balafon
- 2. 2nd balafon joins in (in octaves)
- 3. Drums join in
- Main Section
- 1. Chorus 1 (Vox in unison)
- 2. Short Instrumental
- 3. Chorus 2
- 4. Call & Response
- 5. Chorus
- Coda / Outro
- 5 Repetitions of a riff
with short rests, then
final bell (tamtam)
'ting'
- Other important things
- Burkina Faso
- West Africa
- Oral
Tradition
- Texture & Dynamics
- Layered Texture plus...
- Monophonic
Introduction
- Occasional heterophonic textures
- Slight
variation on a
melody
- Little dynamic variation
- Melody, Harmony & Tonality
- Gb Major
- Hexatonic
- Falling Phrases
- Emphasis on
Gb and Db
- Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
- 4/4 (mainly)
- Free tempo to start
- Then steady pulse
- Syncopation,
Cross Rhythms
and Triplets are
used
- Mainly
quavers &
semiquavers
- + fills