Yiri - Koko - Revision
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- Created on: 31-03-13 20:47
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- Yiri - Koko
- Instrumentation
- Djembe - drum played with hands
- Balaphone - Similar to a xylophone but made of wooden bars
- Talking drum - played with a hooked stick used t imitate speech
- Musicians sing and are split into solo singer and chorus
- Little variation in the dynamics
- Structure
- The piece is in 3 different sections
- Introduction - Balaphone plays a solo using tremolos
- Main section where the drums play an ostinato and a clear pulse call and response used
- The coda where the balaphone is played 5 times each slghtly varied and a bell marks the end of the piece
- Melody, Harmony and Tonality
- G flat Major
- Hexatonic
- The balaphones play short falling patterns and the group sings this also, it emphasizes the G flat and the D flat
- Rhythm, Metre and Tempo
- 4/4 but not strictly
- The piece has a steady pulse
- Syncopation used throughout and the vocal parts and balafons play frequent cross-rhythms
- Triplets frequently used by the vocal soloist
- Rhythmic ostinatos created and continue throughout the piece
- Texture
- Mainly polyphonic
- Mostly layered texture and poly-rhythmic
- Very repetitive
- From Burkina Faso
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