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Description
Mind Map by bethanygrace7, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by bethanygrace7
over 11 years ago
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Yiri - Koko
- Background: African. Features: call
and response; repetition;
improvisation; polyphony;
syncopation; cross-rhythms; short,
simple melodies; pentatonic
- Dynamics: unvaried - typical
feature of African music.
- Rhythm and metre: introduction
in free rhythm, drums create
rhythmic osinato, ballophone
ostinati create syncopation, vocal
melody uses triplets.
- Structure: slow introduction. No
regular structure; contrasting sections
created by instrumental and vocal
sections.
- Instruments: 2 ballophones
(tremolo); djembe; talking
drum; male solo vocalist;
chorus and a bell.
- Tempo: Starts in free
tempo; moderato tempo,
unvaried for rest of piece.
- Tonality: Gb major;
pentatonic vocal
melody.
- Texture: begins monophonic, 2nd
ballophone enters to create
heterophonic texture, choir voices
sing in unison, coda in octaves with
dramatic silences
- Harmony: limited harmony -
voices in unison, ballophones
often in octaves.
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