Characteristics of Yellow Bird
- Created by: Hannah Wiersma
- Created on: 15-03-14 10:19
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- Caribbean Steel Pan: 'Yellow Bird'
- Based on a calypso piece
- Traditionally performed in Trinidad in Carnival.
- Steel pans are fashioned by oil drums
- In rapid quadruple time
- Each part has a different rhythm
- Tango rhythm in the bass
- Tremelo used to produce long notes
- Syncopation
- Each part has a different rhythm
- Diatonic
- Range of a 9th
- Many perfect cadences
- Primary triads
- G major, no modulations
- Small amount of chromaticism's
- Mainly four bar phrases
- Use of sequence
- Varied repetitions
- AAB AAB (Structure)
- Steel pans accompanied by a drum-kit
- Rhythmically enlivened melody dom. homophony
- Countermelody appears at Bar 28
- Rhythmically enlivened melody dom. homophony
- Based on a calypso piece
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