MC part 4

The instrumentation of the piece included two lead vocalist, one male and one female. It also has a chorus of vocalist. The piece also includes two membranephones, two drums identified in the track list as a goblet shaped drum and a cylindrical shaped drum. There is also some sort of ideophone (00:15) that could be an instrument or bracelets, because it is common for dance to add to the creation of music in West Africa and the ideophone sounds like bracelets hitting each other. The piece is in 2/4 time and  major key, this can be seen in the bottom drum that comms in at the begging and fro most of the piece plays a consistent note on each down beat. The entire piece is polyrhythmic which is common for West African Music. The polyrhythm can especially be heard in the two drums (00:11) where one drum is playing four eighth notes while the second drum plays two quarter notes on the down beets. The vocal part of the piece consist of a call from the female vocalist and response from the male vocalist with the chorus singing between the call and response(00:11 - 00:15). This call and response is common for Melody in West African music. The piece has the main Melody on top in the call and response of the voice and than ployrhythm in the two drums and ideophone on the bottom. There is also a lot of repetition in the piece. Up until 02:18 the entire piece is largely playing the same repeated rhythms an melody, it is at 02:18 that the rhythm of the top drum has a major change for the first time. Than by 02:31 the rhythm changes back and it begins to repeat how it was in the begging. It is not until the 3 minuet mark when there is another major change. It is at this point the vocal begin to sing a new part, but even the new part is a repetition of the same notes with the repeated "oi". It is than at 03:36 where the vocals change ounce again and the male begins to sing new lyrics and the drums fade out for a moment before coming back in and the call and response coming back at -3:50. At 03:50 the male voice comes back and sings over the call and response creating new polyphony in the melody. Still even at the moments of vocal change there is still alot of repition through the entire piece and even at small points like rhythms and lyrics for example lyrics at 4:11. At 04:36 the rythm changes ounce again as the bottom drum that has been constant changes to play an alternation between the original two quarter notes into a signal quarter note fallowed by two eight notes, and just before the bottom drum returns to normal the top drum has a short measure in which it switches from eighth notes to sixteenth before returning to repeat the original rhythm with the bottom drum.. In relation to harmony there is only a little. Between the drums and melody. This is to be expected because West African music puts little to no focus on harmony.