Yiri - Koko

Introduction:

• Starts in a free tempo with a high balafon improvised solo at a soft dynamic level.
• Monophonic texture
• Compromises a melody in Gb major
• Simple and repetitive

Chorus A:

• Voices are in unison
• Melody is shorts, simple and repetitive
• The semiquaver-quaver-semiquaver rhythm is a feature of vocal writing.
• No harmony.

Balafon solo:

• Short instrumental for the balafon
• Drums play continuous ostinato

Chorus A:

• voice in for second verse.

Balafon solo:

• Voices out
• Solo instrumental break on a lower pitched balafon
• Some variation in melody
• semiquavers in Gb major

Vocal solo:

• Dramatic new melody
• Long held notes
• solo voices with choral responses

Balafon solo:

• solo voice with some varied balafon rhythms in solo break

Chorus B:

• Full choirs
• short instrumental interjections to break up the vocal line

Balafon solo

Chorus A

Coda:

• Sense of strong riff
• Heterophonic texture