June 18 - Note This


Fourth and final playlist of the week -- c. 300-500 words as usual...

Information for Quiz 2 is below the Egyptian Musicians!

If you're interested, holding optional Zoom get-togethers tomorrow, Friday
6pm San Ramon (9065)
7pm Pleasant Hill (3934)

Will send group emails a few minutes before each...


Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (2. That Which Survives)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgJ51XJUpfU&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcePAGJ29NM47kCdycpze7aC

Details of above, below...

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (2a. Preservation Hall)
Syria - Hurrian Hymn No. 6; Egypt - Trumpets of Tutankhamun
https://youtu.be/UgJ51XJUpfU

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (2b. Harmony and Hymns)
Matt Small - Trumpet of Tutankhamun; Harmonic Series;
China - Entrance Hymn of the Emperor; Israel - Jewish Chant
https://youtu.be/_0UNCS_adqg

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (2c. Spirit of Ages)
Music of Central Africa, Greece, India, China, and Angola
https://youtu.be/nVARs8LkebE

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (2d. It's All Greek)
Seikilos - Epitaph (14 versions!)
https://youtu.be/7R9IqaS01uI

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (2e. Cantus Firmus)
Syriac and Coptic Orthodox Music; Roman and Ambrosian Chant; Tassin - Dance Tune;
Robertsbridge Codex - Organ Estampie No. 3
https://youtu.be/UZ-e8EGJjc8

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (2f. World Beat)
Music of Indonesia, South Africa, Tanzania, Mozambique,
Crete, Uganda, Kenya, Tahiti, Zimbabwe, and Ethiopia
https://youtu.be/HDJ224EuXiY


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[Early Egyptians marching towards Diablo Valley College Music Appreciation
Quiz 2 (Ancient Music)] -- blank copy of same will be group emailed today,
please email completed copy (and lecture notes) as attached pdf / jpg to mus21stc@gmail.com or
my school email, by 6pm, tomorrow, Friday, June 19!

Thank you!



 F Lydian and Major (in Bass Clef, with Half Notes)



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

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



Major Scale Whole Step / Half Step Pattern (C)

... in Bass Clef, with Half Notes



... on a musical keyboard

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



Four Texures of Music 


Monophonic - One line of music, strictly performed

Heterophonic - One line of music, freely performed

Polyphonic - More than one line of music, with lines of equal importance

Homophonic - More than one line of music, with one line more important than the others

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_(music)



Listening


California (Yurok) - Women's Brush Dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDIJYCI5lU0

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/native-americans-in-california-c-8000.html
(with notation)


China - Entrance Hymn for the Emperor

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/05/king-kang-of-chou-reigned-1021-996-bc.html
(Recording and Notation)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBbOYeIxBhM
(alternative video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bilTiAwk18
(second alternative video)


Seikilos - Epitaph

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikilos_epitaph (Notation)


The Quiz is endeth, (feel free to) go on a break, at least until Monday...

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Finish


Music History, Op. 335
    III.  Medieval Music I (1. Rome to Romanesque)
        1e. Pilgrimage
         Music of Arabia, Yemen, Iran, Syria, Palestine / Israel, Tunisia, and Morocco


In the half


light,


adventure


to the


Pony Express Trail --


University of California, Davis, Variant -- from Foundation Seed Program


past

ongoing


new


construction


to Border Pole,


on the 88th day of summer,


high up 7 to 98


(Dixon, 93; Davis, 96).


Explore around


campus a bit,


and


back


down


the


highway and byways to begin composition of


Seven Caliphs, Op. 337 (June 18, 2020)
    I. Muhammad

Additionally, calibrate

Book of Dreams, Op. 277
     2020
          June 17-18
               5am Entertaining, Diaphonous Black Robe Sleeve Gets Caught on Gas Stove, I Call Someone,
                    Help Me Please, No One Does, So Drag Pot of Boiling Water Onto Floor, No Damages,
                    We Notice Stove Has Been Covered by Two Heavy Warehouse-Style Blankets,
                    and Pull Same Off, To Reveal Old Black Antique-with-Legs Cookstove...