Music AoS4: Yiri

From Bukino Faso, a country in West Africa.

African Music:

• Music plays important role in society, used to communicate feelings or emotions
• Used at social gatherings to celebrate
• Passed through generationsusing oral tradtition
• Combined withs speech and dance
• 3 strands- drumming, choral song, intrusmental music

Common Features:

• Repetition (Ostinati)
• Cyclic structures
• Polyphonc textures
• Intertwining melodies

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