Koko- Yiri
- Created by: Oliver Moodie
- Created on: 07-04-15 12:42
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- Yiri
- Tempo
- Free tempo in the intro
- Steady and constant afterwards
- Free tempo in the intro
- Rhythm
- Syncopation
- Cross rhythms
- Soloist uses triplets
- Drums play a rhythmic ostinato
- Dynamics
- Very little dynamic variation throughout
- Context
- Music from Burkina Faso
- Yiri means wood
- Performed from memory then transcribed
- Metre
- mostly 4/4
- Structure
- Intro
- Main section
- Drum ostinato and call and response between the chorus and soloist
- Coda
- Balafon variations on a phrase. Ending with an Agogo bell
- Melody
- Short phrases
- Ephasises the tomic and dominant ( Gb and Db respectively)
- The balafon has more develpoed solo breaks
- Instrumentation
- Two balafons
- Djembes
- Talking drum
- Voices
- Chorus
- Soloist
- Texture
- Built up from independant lines
- Monophonic intro
- Occasional heterophony
- Harmony and Tonality
- Gb major
- Hexatonic
- Unison singing with no harmonies
- Limited harmony throughout
- Tempo
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