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...