December 8 - Bang on a Drum

[Drumming up some business for Exam, Part I -- Take home!  Due 6pm, Friday, December 11, as attached pdf / jpg to mus21stc@gmail.com (or school email)]


Write Any Major Scale -- Except C -- with Solfege

Write Any Minor Scale -- Except A -- with Solfege


List Six Periods of Aesthetic History, before the 20th Century, with Dates

[Including Ancient, c. 3500 BCE - 400 CE]



Listening

For each description, please include information on...

Rhythm
Pitch
Dynamics
Timbre (Instruments / Voices)
Texture
Harmony
Form
Context


[Music c. 3500 BCE - 400 CE]

Greece (Athenaeus [Athenaios Athenaiou], b. c. 158 BCE) -
First Delphic Hymn, c. 128 BCE (Southern Europe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnkVaPKlf_U

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenaeus_(musician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphic_Hymns
(Interesting information, differing score)

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/01/anonymous-athenian-b-c-168-bc.html
(Score which basically corresponds to performance --
reposted from Historical Anthology of Music, Harvard)


[Music c. 400-1400]

India (Hindustani music, dating back to c. 1100,
improvised by Ali Akbar Khan, 1922-2009) -
Raga Sind Bhairavi (Southern Asia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKVhSNY2Lkc
(intro by Yehudi Menuhin, reverb)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXIWAWbMFNI&list=RDV7NisVEE0oM&index=17

(Better recording of above, w/o intro)

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

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

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindhu_Bhairavi_(raga)

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

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

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


[Music c. 1400-1600]

Russia - Wedding Song "Na Solnechnom Vskhode"
("At Dawn, At the Warming") (Eastern Europe)
https://youtu.be/GgO1-cuO8ls

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

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


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


[Music c. 1600-1750]

Nigeria (Yoruba) - Talking Drum (Western Africa)
https://youtu.be/tcK47jChxjs

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

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

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


[Music c. 1750-1850]

Austria (Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827) -
Symphony No. 9 ("Choral")
, Op. 125 (1824): IV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFxzqYHA4_E (@ 37:56)

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Beethoven)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_music_(style)


[Music c. 1850-1900]

Washington, DC (John Philip Sousa, 1854-1932) -
The Stars and Stripes Forever (1896) (Eastern America)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsgcwZuQf6E
(reasonably brisk tempo, orchestra)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRQWP-TL4gk
(slower, band, with score)

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

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

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

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