KOKO - Yiri
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- KOKO - Yiri
- Facts
- West African - Burkina Faso
- oral tradition (speech)
- Koko - 6 players
- Instrumentation
- Balafon
- 6 players
- Donno
- Dundun
- Djembe
- master drummer
- Texture
- polyphony
- heterophony
- Rhythm
- voice in triplets (3 against 2)
- cross-rhythms
- no clear pulse at beginning
- polyrhythms
- repetition
- complex
- 4/4 time when pulse
- syncopated
- ostinato
- rhythmic cycles
- Melody
- played by balafon
- short ideas
- ostinato
- tremelo (roll)
- improvised (freestyle)
- based on pentatonic scale (5)
- simple
- Structure
- ends on a single "ting" on the bell
- opens with balafons (monophonic)
- voices (group) added 2nd (heterophonic)
- call and response
- voices
- Melody
- played by balafon
- short ideas
- ostinato
- tremelo (roll)
- improvised (freestyle)
- based on pentatonic scale (5)
- simple
- Harmony
- no key change
- voices sing same note in unison
- no harmony
- no set chords
- Gb balafon
- Facts
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