Yiri by Koko
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- Yiri - Koko
- West African music
- TRIC
- Textured - layered textures
- Repetition - ostinatos formed
- Improvisation
- Call and responce
- Oral tradition
- Professional musicians called griots
- TRIC
- Introduction
- 'Yiri' means wood
- All the instruments apart from the bell are made of wood
- From Burkina Faso
- The score is transcribed from a recording
- Performed from memory
- 6 players
- 'Yiri' means wood
- Instruments
- Balafon
- Similar to xylophone
- Wooden bars tuned to different pitches
- Gourds hang beneath bards to make it more resonant
- Hollow balls of wood with some covered holes in
- Djembe
- Shaped like a goblet
- Drum
- Played with handss
- Talking Drum
- Played with a hooked stick
- Imitates speech by creating different pitches and slides
- Vocals
- Choir
- Solo male voice
- Balafon
- Structure
- 3 sections
- Introduction
- Balafon solo
- Tremolo
- Main section
- Drums play ostinato
- Clear, strong pulse
- Alternates between balafon solos and choruses
- Vocal solo in middle
- Call and response between choir and solo
- Coda
- Short balafon phrase
- Played 5 times with slight variation
- Drum ostinato interrupted by rests
- Cowbell to mark the end of the piece
- Short balafon phrase
- Introduction
- 3 sections
- Melody, Harmony and Tonality
- Rhythm, Metre and Tempo
- Texture and Dynamics
- West African music
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