What does Worlds of Music mean by describing this sanjun as ...

[madam-professor]

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

Question 2

Follow the accompanying Active Listening guide as you listen to Ilumn tiyu. Describe the sound of Ilumn tiyu.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[Kaytorgator]

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.

[madam-professor]

Both answers were spot on, thank you once again

[Kaytorgator]

Great! Please up vote