In the end I found that my piece matched the characteristics of Wester African Music to a great extent. The piece had a lot of polyrhythms as well as a call and response melody. There was a bit more harmony than what is common for West African music but beside that the piece I found was a great example of the culture. The only thing I could ask for to make it more like it would be the use of a talking drum and a hemiola. The most distinct part of western African music is the polyrhythms. In all the research I did it was always brought up and discussed in detail. Polyrhythms are the most distinct feature of Western African dance music and I saw it appear in every piece I listened to while trying to find the one to analysis. I found Western African dance music to be very different from what I am used to. I have seen polyrhythms in music before but never to the extent that it appears in this culture.
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