MARK ALBURGER, 2020: August 27 - Time Ticking Into the Future

Welcome, World Music classes, to the second Playlist
(accessed by clicking the link directly below)
and Information for Quiz 1 (just under the ensuing Distended Continents image)
Notes (c. 300-500 words) and Quiz due as attached pdfs or jpgs -- 6pm, Friday, August 28, to
mus21stc@gmail.com or my school email

Mark Alburger - "Before c. 3500 B.C.E." (2. Score to Societies)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0ClqwG5-Os&list=PLtV-SdP8TZccH-GVYmpkVoLDp1spdPTLt

Details of the 6 linked videos..

Mark Alburger - "Before c. 3500 B.C.E." (2a Score to Strauss)
Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: Introduction (in Score)
https://youtu.be/o0ClqwG5-Os

Mark Alburger - "Before c. 3500 B.C.E." (2b. In Passing)
Gustav Holst - The Planets: I. Mars
https://youtu.be/3m8XNUqYyZM

Mark Alburger - "Before c. 3500 B.C.E." (2c. Down to Earth, Sympathetically)
Gusta Holst - The Planets; Sympathetic Vibration
https://youtu.be/ood-CY-naU0

Mark Alburger - "Before c. 3500 B.C.E." (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 - "Before c. 3500 B.C.E." (2e. From Sound to Silence)
Edgar Varese - Poeme Electronique; John Cage - 4' 33"
https://youtu.be/rs44cevOT84

Mark Alburger - "Before c. 3500 B.C.E." (2f. In and Out of Africa)
Music of Tanzania, France, Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt, Niger, and China
https://youtu.be/528vAqoVQVc

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All connected for Diablo Valley College World Music!

Information 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 Listenings 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

Limited Scales

Monotonic - 1 Pitch
Bitonic - 2 Pitches
Tritonic - 3 Pitches
Tetratonic - 4 Pitches

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotonic_scale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritonic_scale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetratonic_scale

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
Ethnomusicological Names from Hornbostel-Sachs / Common Names - A Few Typical Examples

Aerophone / Wind - Bansuri (Indian Flute), Sona (Chinese Oboe), Double Clarinet (Egypt),
                                         Tibetan Long Trumpet
Idiophone . Solid Body - Chinese Woodblocks, East African Thumb "Piano", Indonesian Gongs
Membranophone / Drum - Nigerian Talking Drum, Indian Mdrangam and Tabla
Chordophone / String - Gambian Harp; Chin, Koto, and Santur
                                           (Chinese, Japanese, and Iranian Zithers); Rebab (Egyptian Spike Fiddle);
                                            Chinese Pipa and Moon Guitar (Lutes)
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 Region (+ Composer, if known) - Title (General Region)
and describe briefly re:

Rhythm
Pitch
Dynamics
Timbre (Tone-Color)
Form

Senegal - Greetings from Podor (West Africa, undated -- possibly very old)

https://youtu.be/Iaev3NjcNDQ

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

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

New York / France (Edgar Varese) - Poeme Electronique (Eastern America / Northern Europe, 1958)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs44cevOT84&feature=youtu.be (@ 4:00-12:00)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgard_Var%C3%A8se

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po%C3%A8me_%C3%A9lectronique

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