https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=85027636&v=85U-77_5lWk&x-yt-ts=1422503916 <- The piece I used.
This song is a folksong from Amsterdam, in The Netherlands. It therefore has been influenced by the Western folk traditions, which we can clearly hear in the piece, through its constant time signature (3/4), clear key signature, and clear structure (verse, chorus, verse, instrumental, verse).
The song begins with an instrument that sounds like a woodblock being hit in a perpetual semiquaver rhythm, as well as an oboe that plays the same rhythm. These two play on the mediant note for 6 semiquavers, then move down to the supertonic for 6 semiquavers, and finally resolve at the tonic note, where the oboe does a slide, descending and then ascending to lead into the accordion's melody. This is accompanied by the woodblocks being played in demisemiquavers, which increases the interest through its more interesting rhythm. At 0:03 the accordion comes in with sequantial descending arpeggios, whose lowest note gets higher with every arpeggio, to lead into the vocal part, by ending, just like the oboe before it, on the tonic. This creates a sense of coherence within this opening section. At 0:07 the voice comes in with an upbeat (or anacrusis) comprised of two crotchet beats. Its melody begins by descending a fifth, to the subdominant. Then at 0:15 it repeats this, but starting one note lower this time, and thus finishing on the mediant.
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