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yiri
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- 1date??!?!??!?!?!?!
- 2key features of traditional west african music (4)repetition and the use of ostinati
improvisation
call and response
layered textures - 3background (4)from Burkina Faso
yiri means wood, linking to the fact that all instruments except bell are made from wood
performed from memory/oral
transcription - 4instrumentation (4)balafons
djembe drum
talking drum
voice (soloist and chorus) - 5structure (5)introduction (balafon solo using tremolo)
instrumental section/breaks
choruses
call and response
coda - 6melody, harmony and tonality (3)Gb major
mostly hexatonic (no F)
balafons mostly play short descending patterns which emphasise the tonic and dominant - 7texture (5)monophonic: opening solo
heterophonic: two balafons playng same melody with differences in pitch)
polyphonic otherwise
dialoguing effects between voice and instruments
variety in texture - 8rhythm (6)cross rhythms
syncopated
more complex rhythms in solo breaks
improvised
ostinati
vocal soloist uses triplets - 9vocal parts (3)solo voice improvising above chorus
chorus in unison
major key - 10dynamicslittle dynamic variation throughout the piece
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- GCSE Music (world music) FlashCards sobre yiri, criado por jenny sclater em 01-05-2017.
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- jenny sclater · mai 2017
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