MARK ALBURGER, 2020: June 16 - How's That Again?

Welcome to the second playlist (accessed by clicking the link directly below)
and info for Quiz 1 (directly under the ensuing Big Bang image)
Notes and Quiz due as attached pdfs or jpgs -- 6pm, Friday, June 19, to
mus21stc@gmail.com or my school email

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (2. Score to Societies)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0ClqwG5-Os&list=PLtV-SdP8TZccH-GVYmpkVoLDp1spdPTLt

Details of the 6 linked videos..

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (2a Score to Strauss)
Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: Introduction (in Score)
https://youtu.be/o0ClqwG5-Os

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (2b. In Passing)
Gustav Holst - The Planets: I. Mars
https://youtu.be/3m8XNUqYyZM

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (2c. Down to Earth, Sympathetically)
Gusta Holst - The Planets; Sympathetic Vibration
https://youtu.be/ood-CY-naU0

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (2d. Elementary, My Deer)
Elemental and Biotic Music by Richard Wagner, Alan Hovhaness, Giuseppe Verdi, Frank Churchill (Bambi), Ferde Grofe, Philip Glass (Koyaanisqatsi), Claude Debussy, Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Crumb, Olivier Messiaen, and some critters
https://youtu.be/k9Cv38-y2fk

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (2e. From Sound to Silence)
Edgar Varese - Poeme Electronique; John Cage - 4' 33"
https://youtu.be/rs44cevOT84

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (2f. In and Out of Africa)
Music of Tanzania, France, Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt, Niger, and China
https://youtu.be/528vAqoVQVc

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A Big Bang for Diablo Valley College Music Appreciation!

Info for Quiz (Worksheet) 1, which will be group emailed you today!
Feel free to write on blank copy sent, or make up your own equivalent version.
Top of Quiz should be handwritten, Descriptions of Compositions may be typed, if preferred...

C Major Scale (Treble Clef on a Staff in Whole Notes) (Wikipedia Links for your reference)

(Letter Names and Numbers above)

(Solfege Syllables below)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_major

Musical Keyboard Letter Names

(1/2 step = adjacent notes on a keyboard -- white-to-black; black-to-white;
or white-to-white, if no intervening black note)

(# = Sharp raises a white note 1/2 step, b = Flat lowers a white note 1/2 step)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_keyboard

Five Basic Ways of Producing Sound
Basic Name (Ethnomusicological Names) - (A Few Typical Examples)

Wind (Aerophone) - (Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Trumpet)
Solid-Body (Idiophone) - (Woodblock, Cymbal)
Drum (Membranophone) - (Timpani)
String (Chordophone) - (Harp, Piano, Violin)
Electricity (Electrophone) - (Synthesizer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_instrument_classification#Mahillon_and_Hornbostel-Sachs_systems

Listening

Please listen to the below two selections on YouTube.
On Quiz you should identify each by Composer - Title: Movement
and describe briefly re:

Rhythm
Pitch
Dynamics
Timbre (Tone-Color)
Form

Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: I. Introduction
(Thus Spake Zarathustra: I. Sunrise)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETveS23djXM (0.00 - 1:43) - i.e you only need to hear beginning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Strauss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Also_sprach_Zarathustra_(Strauss)

Gustav Holst - The Planets: I. Mars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGGlL1wexQk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Holst

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planets

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