Our listening example is an avavaninha, performed by percussion while the initiates enter the room, and is followed by an excerpt of a song to Ogun, who is the first orixá to be worshiped in the xirê. 

Instrumentation: atabaques, bell, xequerê

Time signature: 6/8

Form: (A) Avavaninha (instrumental) followed by (B) Vassi d’ogun (responsorial singing

accompanied by atabaques and bell)