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What does Yuri mean?

Wood

What is the genre of this song?

West African music

What country is it from?

Burkina Faso

Features of West African music?

Repetition/ostinato
Improvisation
Polyphonic textures
Call and response

Instruments

Male voices (solo and chorus)
2 balafons (wooden xylophones, one is lower in pitch)
Djembe (played with hands)
Dundun (double-headed drum played with sticks)
Donno (talking drums)

Tempo and rhythm

Quite fast-remains same throughout
Rhythmic features:
-Syncopation used throughout the balafon and vocal parts
- Vocal soloist uses triplets
-Cross rhythms sometimes occur between the vocals and balafons.
-Drums play a rhythmic ostinato of a quaver and 2 semi quavers throughout the piece.

Tonality

Gb major
Balafons highlight notes Gb and Db

Texture

Homophonic introduction before layers are built up to form a polyphonic texture.
Heteropohony between two balafons.
Male vocal chorus sing in unison.

Melody

Balafon ostinati
Balafon improvisations which are more virtuosic.
Short vocal phrases such as "Yiri"
Call and response
Much of the melody is hexatonic (using 6 notes of GB avoiding F)

Structure

Intro:
-Balafon solo
-2nd balafon joins in
-Drums join in

Main section:
-Alternates between balafon solos and choruses
-In the middle of this section there is a vocal solo in which call and response is used between the solo vocalist and the choir.

Ending:
-Marked by a series of dramatic rests.
-Bell sound at the end.

Harmony

No chords are used, music is a combination of melody lines and ostinati.