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madam-professor

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What does Worlds of Music mean by describing this sanjun as having a distilled-ballad character?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Follow the accompanying Active Listening guide as you listen to Ilumn tiyu. Describe the sound of Ilumn tiyu.
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 25, 2018
Answer to Question 1

 The words to this song (sanjun) represent a story (ballad) that has been reduced to its essence (distilled).

Answer to Question 2

(A) Time Characteristics (rhythm, tempo, metrical rhythm)
 Dominating short-long-short-long-long sanjun rhythm (motive) used to create melodies of 8-beat sanjun phrases
 Medium tempo with duple (two-beat) metrical rhythm

(B) Pitch Aspects (melody, harmony)
 Repetitive, unison melodies
 Consonant, harmonies; g-sharp minor/B Major bimodality

(C) Timbre/Instrumentation
 Instrumentation consists of solo violin, notched flutes (kenas), drum, guitars and singerssee photo of ensemble in Worlds of Music.
 A notched flute is an end-blown flute with the player blowing air across a small notch at the end of the flute

(D) Musical Form
 A series of sung verses alternating with instrumental interludesif II stands for the Introduction/Interlude, AI for the A phrase played by instruments, AV for the A phrase vocalized by the ensemble, and B for B phrase, the formal structure of Galo Maigua's composition, Ilumn tiyu comes out to be as follows:
II/AI/II/AV/B/AI/II/AV/B/AI/II/AV/B/AI

(E) Context of the Musical Example
 The recording is from a performance that occurred in the Imbabura village of Ilumn in Ecuador by a well-known Quichua composer-guitarist-singer, Segundo Galo Maigua Pillajo, and his ensemble Conjunto Ilumn in October, 1990.


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Reply #2 on: Jul 25, 2018
Both answers were spot on, thank you once again


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Reply #3 on: Jul 25, 2018
Great! Please up vote :D


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