Musical Elements Africa

• the instrumentation of Africa:

  Drum kit with additional percussion, lead and bass guitars, synthesizers, male lead vocals and male backing vocals
• the tempo for Africa is moderately fast
• most of Africa is mf whereas the chorus is f
• the structure is verse/chorus form

  Intro - bar 1-4 - 4 bars

  Verse 1 - bar 5-39 - 35 bars

  Chorus 1 - bar 40-57 - 18 bars

  Link 1 - bar 58-65 - 8 bars

  Verse 2 - bar 14-39 - 26 bars

  Chorus 2 - bar 40-57 - 18 bars

  Link 2 - bar 58-65 - 8 bars

  Instrumental - bar 66-82 - 17 bars

  Chorus 3 - bar 40-92 - 22 bars

  Outro - bar 93-96 - 4 bars
• the tonality of Africa is major with all the verses being in B major and all the choruses in A major
• Africa is diatonic throughout
• the melody is mostly conjunct with occasional use of the pentatonic scale. the pitch range of the vocal line is just less than two octaves on the printed score, but is wider on the recording with the vocal improvisations at the end of the song
• there are ostinato rhythms consisting almost totally of quavers with constant use of syncopation in place. the time signature is 2/2 throughout
• the texture is homophonic, but more specifically melody and accompaniment