Fela used music to challenge abuses of power and educate his listeners to the sources of their misery.”
The Ensemble and Its Musical Functions
What will be an ideal response?
• Fela composed for a large orchestra, with a wide dynamic range.
• Bass plays the temporal structure and the pillar tones of its tonality, while rhythm electric guitars play interlocking vamp figures. In TDTMN, the solid-feeling time values of the bass contrast with the quicker motion of the guitars. See Transcription 3.21, p. 153.
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