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A4 - Yiri

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

A4 - Yiri

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