September 3 - Now Hear This



One of the Trumpets of Tutankhamun making a big impression in the
second playlist for Week 2 of World Music -- 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 Mozambique Xylophones photo below!

Holding optional Zoom get-togethers, Friday, September 4
5pm MUSIC-114-2211
8pm MUSIC-114-9119

Will send group emails c. 15 minutes before each...


Mark Alburger - Music c. 3500 BCE - 400 CE (2. That Which Survives)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgJ51XJUpfU&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcePAGJ29NM47kCdycpze7aC

Details of above, below...

Mark Alburger - Music c. 3500 BCE - 400 CE (2a. Preservation Hall)
Syria - Hurrian Hymn No. 6; Egypt - Trumpets of Tutankhamun
https://youtu.be/UgJ51XJUpfU

Mark Alburger - Music c. 3500 BCE - 400 CE (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 - Music c. 3500 BCE - 400 CE (2c. Spirit of Ages)
Music of Central Africa, Greece, India, China, and Angola
https://youtu.be/nVARs8LkebE

Mark Alburger - Music c. 3500 BCE - 400 CE (2d. It's All Greek)
Seikilos - Epitaph (14 versions!)
https://youtu.be/7R9IqaS01uI

Mark Alburger - Music c. 3500 BCE - 400 CE (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 - Music c. 3500 BCE - 400 CE (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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[A Chopi Timbila Ensemble as a big fanfare for Diablo Valley World Music
Quiz 2 (Music c. 3500 BCE - 400 CE)] -- 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


Four Eastasian Pentatonic Scales  (in Bass Clef, with Half Notes)




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



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)


Mozambique (Chopi) - Timbila Xylophone Music (Southern Africa)

https://youtu.be/TITkfhV8-5k
(with notation inspired by same)

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

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

Two other interesting related videos below!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgZV9nR-m2o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOWaJs8_Aac


(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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DVC San Ramon Math Deparment Zoom Meeting (yes, that's where Music is at present there), finish work on the Thomas Ravenscroft section of the video

Music History, Op. 335
     VI. Baroque Music (I. Early to Middle)

and out for another


Greenspace Walk, now Leisure northwest in the Bryce one to


Outdoor Lounge,


on the turkeyish


155th day of



summer,


high up


6 to


95...