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    This document provides a revision grid summarizing the key musical elements and features of a West African style piece called "Yiri", including its modal tonality, pentatonic harmony and melody, polyrhythmic and improvisational texture, alternating vocal choruses and instrumental sections, and use of instruments like djembe, talking drums, and balafons.

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    This document provides a revision grid summarizing the key musical elements and features of a West African style piece called "Yiri", including its modal tonality, pentatonic harmony and melody, polyrhythmic and improvisational texture, alternating vocal choruses and instrumental sections, and use of instruments like djembe, talking drums, and balafons.

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    This document provides a revision grid summarizing the key musical elements and features of a West African style piece called "Yiri", including its modal tonality, pentatonic harmony and melody, polyrhythmic and improvisational texture, alternating vocal choruses and instrumental sections, and use of instruments like djembe, talking drums, and balafons.

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    Yiri

    REVISION GRID
    Style/Genre/Era
    Tonality
    Harmony
    Time signature and
    tempo
    Instrumentation

    Structure
    Texture
    Melody

    Rhythm

    West-African music
    Modal
    Pentatonic
    No harmony/chords
    No fixed tempo in intro
    Fixed tempo when djembe enter
    Fast tempo
    Djembe
    Talking drums
    Balafons
    Voices
    (Bell at end)
    Improvised
    After solo balafon intro, alternates between vocal choruses and instrumental sections
    (mostly improvised)
    Polyrhythmic texture
    Polyphonic texture (balafon parts)
    Opens with monophonic texture
    Pentatonic ostinato (balafons)
    Pentatonic vocal melody
    Call and response
    Improvised fills
    Syncopation
    Cross-rhythms
    Polyrhythms

    Features of
    style/genre

    Ostinati
    Improvisation
    Pentatonic melody
    Polyrhythms

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