| Notes and Quotes: "Kon Tiki" |
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| Named after the boat constructed
by Norwegian ethnologist, Thor Heyerdahl, that he sailed west across
the Pacific in 1947 (from Peru to Tuamotu) to prove possible links between
the peoples of South America and Polynesia. |
| Unlike "Apache," this song
has clear ties to vocal music. The core is in song-form (verse
verse bridge verse), capped by a partial repeat of the same
material (bridge verse). Variations in the music help move the
performance along. |
| For example, when they return
to the verse after the first bridge, they play the melody one octave higher
and after the next bridge, they return to the original octave. The effect
is to give closure to the performance, an effect enhanced by ending with
roughly the same material with which they begin. |
| Bruce Welch (Melody Maker,
23 September 1961, p. 9): "We've improved no end since we made that
record nine months ago. We were not in good form when we made it and we're
surprised it has done so well." |
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| Schedule |
3 November, 2015
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