MARK ALBURGER, 2020: September 2

Second playlist for Week 2 of Music Appreciation -- c. 300-500 words as usual...
attached pdf / jpg to mus21stc@gmail.com by 6pm, Friday, September 4

Information for Quiz 2 is just under the Egyptian Musicians photo below!

Holding optional Zoom get-togethers, Friday, September 4
6pm MUSIC-110-2568
7pm MUSIC-110-8260

Will send group emails c. 15 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 for 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 --
if you don't receive, you might want to check email spam folder! --
please email completed copy (and lecture notes) as attached pdf / jpg to mus21stc@gmail.com or
my school email, by 6pm, Friday, September 4!

There's actually never any penalty for late notes,
and only a modest one for late quizzes (A- max, rather than A).
Deadlines flexible (until I turn in grades),
certainly not late until I grade, which is toward end of the next week.

I will be contacting each of you individually soon, re scores of Week 1...

Thank you!

Information for Quiz 2

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
(information with notation)

China - Entrance Hymn for the Emperor

https://youtu.be/xOew2QNvrDU
(with notation!)

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/05/king-kang-of-chou-reigned-1021-996-bc.html
(information with 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
(information with notation)

(The lecture playlist-videos of the week, of course, have commentaries and recordings on all 3 above)

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Oh, and here's a great link, provided by one of your classmates re Byzantine /
Greek Orthodox Chant -- enriched by acoustics captured in Hagia Sophia!

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/22/808404928/listen-the-sound-of-the-hagia-sophia-more-than-500-years-ago

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