Second playlist for 2nd Era of Music Appreciation -- c. 300-500 words as usual...
attached pdf / jpg to mus21stc@gmail.com by 6pm, Friday, June 18.
Information for Quiz 2 is just under the Egyptian Musicians photo below!
Optional Zoom get-together later today -- 11:30am, Thursday, June 17
Will send group email c. 30 minutes prior...
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 soon --
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
by 6pm, tomorrow, Friday, June 18!
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...
I will be contacting each of you individually after Friday, re all 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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUkabSGrK7I&t=45s(Another version with metered notation in 6/8)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikilos_epitaph
(information with notation)
(The lecture playlist-videos of this Era, 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
