August 31 - Charming

Good Morning Music Appreciation!

(I didn't have any snakes to charm, so had to settle for two plastic dinosaurs and an alligator...)

Well... here's Week 2's Playlist 1 -- if you can't make class today,
feel free to take notes on on same and send by 6pm, Friday, September 3
(c. 300-500 words re notes as attached pdfs / jpgs to mus21stc@gmail.com).

Looking forward to live later today!

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (1. Antique Voices of Cultures)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Piu197zgUGM&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcdxDalJxLbRlODHxOKph0OU&index=1

A Big Ancient First 6, consisting of...

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (1a. Winds of Changes)
India - Keralite Snake Charmer; Oboes and Clarinets
https://youtu.be/Piu197zgUGM

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (1b. Piper Dreams)
Palestine - Shepherd's Pipe; Bamboo and Brass
https://youtu.be/knnUKeyElFU

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (1c. Polyphony and Percussion)
India - Keralite Snake Charmer; Palestine - Shepherd's Pipe; Metallic Idiophones
https://youtu.be/BLJCmhotsr4

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (1d. Dances of Ages)
Seneca - Alligator Dance; Yurok - Women's Brush Dance; Wooden Idiophones
https://youtu.be/HaQImnaDkG4

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (1e. Antecedent of Ways)
Iraq - The Passion of 1,001 Nights; Lydian Mode, Bass Clef, Membranophones
https://youtu.be/27YMHy2tddg

Mark Alburger - Ancient Music (1f. As the World Tunes)
China - The Strumming of an Old Man in a Refined State of Intoxication /
Autumn Moon; Egypt - Zummara Improvisation / Saiyidi Melody; Chordophones, Electrophones
https://youtu.be/lkwjaeJN55s

August 30 - Peace in Turbulent Times

Greetings World Music!

Well... here's Week 2's first playlist... your thoughts (c. 300-500 words), as usual by 6pm, Friday -- this time September 3 -- Again, as attached pdfs / jpgs to mus21stc@gmail.com -- thanks!

Looking forward to second Zoom Get-Together (5pm, Wednesday, September 1) as well, sending group email invite c. 15 minutes previously...

Mark Alburger - Music c. 3500 BCE - 400 CE (1. Antique Voices of Cultures)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Piu197zgUGM&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcdxDalJxLbRlODHxOKph0OU&index=1

Above consisting of below...

Mark Alburger - Music c. 3500 BCE - 400 CE (1a. Winds of Changes)
India - Keralite Snake Charmer; Oboes and Clarinets
https://youtu.be/Piu197zgUGM

Mark Alburger - Music c. 3500 BCE - 400 CE (1b. Piper Dreams)
Palestine - Shepherd's Pipe; Bamboo and Brass
https://youtu.be/knnUKeyElFU

Mark Alburger - Music c. 3500 BCE - 400 CE (1c. Polyphony and Percussion)
India - Keralite Snake Charmer; Palestine - Shepherd's Pipe; Metallic Idiophones
https://youtu.be/BLJCmhotsr4

Mark Alburger - Music c. 3500 BCE - 400 CE (1d. Dances of Ages)
Seneca - Alligator Dance; Yurok - Women's Brush Dance; Wooden Idiophones
https://youtu.be/HaQImnaDkG4

Mark Alburger - Music c. 3500 BCE - 400 CE (1e. Antecedent of Ways)
Iraq - The Passion of 1,001 Nights; Lydian Mode, Bass Clef, Membranophones
https://youtu.be/27YMHy2tddg

Mark Alburger - Music c. 3500 BCE - 400 CE (1f. As the World Tunes)
China - The Strumming of an Old Man in a Refined State of Intoxication /
Autumn Moon; Egypt - Zummara Improvisation / Saiyidi Melody; Chordophones, Electrophones
https://youtu.be/lkwjaeJN55s

August 26 - Applicable

Welcome Music Appreciation, to the second playlist
(accessed by clicking the link directly below)
and info for Quiz 1 (just under the ensuing Big Bang image)...
Quiz due as attached pdf or jpg -- 6pm, Friday, August 27, to
mus21stc@gmail.com

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (2. Score to Societies)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0ClqwG5-Os&list=PLtV-SdP8TZccH-GVYmpkVoLDp1spdPTLt

Details of the 6 linked videos..

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (2a Score to Strauss)
Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: Introduction (in Score)
https://youtu.be/o0ClqwG5-Os

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (2b. In Passing)
Gustav Holst - The Planets: I. Mars
https://youtu.be/3m8XNUqYyZM

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

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (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 - "Prehistoric" Music (2e. From Sound to Silence)
Edgar Varese - Poeme Electronique; John Cage - 4' 33"
https://youtu.be/rs44cevOT84

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

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A Big Bang for Diablo Valley College Music Appreciation!

Info for Quiz (Worksheet) 1, which will be group emailed you soon!
Feel free to write on blank copy sent, or make up your own equivalent version.
Top of Quiz should be handwritten, Descriptions of Compositions 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


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
Basic Name (Ethnomusicological Names) - (A Few Typical Examples)

Wind (Aerophone) - (Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Trumpet)
Solid-Body (Idiophone) - (Woodblock, Cymbal)
Drum (Membranophone) - (Timpani)
String (Chordophone) - (Harp, Piano, Violin)
Electricity (Electrophone) - (Synthesizer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_instrument_classification#Mahillon_and_Hornbostel-Sachs_systems



Listening (on Quiz this is the bottom section designated as "The following")...
 
Please listen to the below two selections on YouTube.
On Quiz you should identify each by Composer - Title: Movement
and describe briefly re:

Rhythm
Pitch
Dynamics
Timbre (Tone-Color)
Form

Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: I. Introduction
                             (Thus Spake Zarathustra: I. Sunrise)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szdziw4tI9o

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Also_sprach_Zarathustra_(Strauss)


Gustav Holst - The Planets: I. Mars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGGlL1wexQk

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

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

August 25 - Time Management

Welcome, World Music, 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 27, to
mus21stc@gmail.com

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

August 24 - Infinite Possibilities

Welcome to Diablo Valley College Music Appreciation (Fall 2021), with

Dr. Mark Alburger!

Syllabus is at
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/01/dvc-music-literature-110-overview.html

We're live, but the equivalent of two-class-meetings-a-week are playlists on YouTube, posted each Tuesday and Thursday.  Each playlist is a set of 6 c. 15-minute original linked videos... roughly one-and-a-half hours per presentation...

The first Lecture Playlist, for today, August 24, is below the next picture...

Each Tuesday and Thursday will feature a new Playlist, accessed from this current blog-website

markalburger2021.blogspot.com

dated as above.

The titles of the daily blog entries are rather arbitrary / capricious...

If you have to miss a session, no worries, as you can take notes on any Playlist (c. 300-500 words) -- handwritten or typed -- as you listen / watch, and send off by 6pm Fridays (in this case, August 27) to mus21stc@gmail.com as attached pdfs or jpgs...

Blank pdf / jpg copies of Quizzes (Worksheets, really) will be group emailed to you every Thursday, with info for same posted on this website just below the corresponding daily Lecture Playlist, and same method of transmission / due date as above.  While top of each Quiz should be hand-written (re Music Notation and Basic Information), the bottom (Identification and Descriptions of Featured Composers and Pieces) may be typed... And you can always create your own versions of the Quizzes, rather than using the emailed copies...

Looking forward to our time together over the next 16 weeks!

Mark

Dr. Mark Alburger
Diablo Valley College Music
(707) 474-7273
mus21stc@gmail.com

***

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (1. Outer Space to Inner Sanctums)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqnDrtQT7Y8&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcfiiEcHl_yxhUkGSuJ1cG4N

The individual videos detailed below...

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (1a. An Outer Space Introduction)
Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: Introduction (in Cinema)
https://youtu.be/dqnDrtQT7Y8

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (1b. The Big Bang and Beyond)
The Audio Afterglow of the Big Bang; Vibration / Sound / Rhythm / Pitch / Dynamics / Timbre
https://youtu.be/Pi0njIAhxZ8
(N.B.  a significant part of the video, re the physics of music, had to be edited out,
due to a copyright objection -- section will be played this Thursday in class.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2xzrzp
Additionally, video blocked in Austria and Germany [!],
due to inclusion of South African waves from The Endless Summer[!])

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (1c. Distance and Direction)
Intervals / Scales; Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: Introduction (in Performance)
https://youtu.be/lE--gc-m8Rw

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (1d. Notation and Nuance)
Notation of Pitch and Rhythm; Senegal - Greetings from Podor
https://youtu.be/ZSUSPsfQQWc

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (1e. Speed to Solfege)
Tempo / Three Instrumental Groups; Rodgers - The Sound of Music: Do Re Mi
https://youtu.be/cOBD8qrcMWE

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (1f. Solfege to Score)
Rodgers - The Sound of Music: Do-Re-Mi; Guido d'Arezzo - Hymn to St. John; Solfege, Accidentals;
Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: Introduction (in Score)
https://youtu.be/MAtZayqIUZg

August 23 - Our Changing World

Welcome to Diablo Valley College World Music (Fall 2021), with your sonic-co-explorer,

Dr. Mark Alburger!

Syllabus is at
http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2020/08/world-music.html

We're all online, so the two class meetings a week (Mondays and Wednesdays) are playlists on YouTube.  Each playlist is 6 c. 15-minute original linked videos... roughly one-and-a-half hours per presentation...

The first Lecture Playlist, for today, August 23, is below the next picture...

Each session will feature a new Playlist, accessed from this current blog-website

markalburger2021.blogspot.com

dated as above.

The titles of the daily blog entries are rather arbitrary / capricious...

Your class participation will be write personal responses to each Playlist (c. 300-500 words) -- handwritten or typed -- as you listen, and send off by 6pm Fridays (in this case, August 27) to mus21stc@gmail.com as attached pdfs or jpgs...

Blank pdf copies of Quizzes (Worksheets, really) will be group emailed to you every Wednesday, with info for same posted on this website just below the corresponding daily Lecture Playlist, and same method of transmission / due date as above.  While top of each Quiz should be hand-written (re Music Notation and Basic Information), the bottom (Identification and Descriptions of Featured Composers and Pieces) may be typed... And you can always create your own versions of the Quizzes, rather than using the emailed copies...

Looking forward to our continuing time together over the next 16 weeks!

Mark

Dr. Mark Alburger
Diablo Valley College Music
(707) 474-7273
mus21stc@gmail.com

***

Mark Alburger - "Before c. 3500 B.C.E." (1. Outer Space to Inner Sanctums)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqnDrtQT7Y8&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcfiiEcHl_yxhUkGSuJ1cG4N

The individual videos detailed below...

Mark Alburger - "Before c. 3500 B.C.E." (1a. An Outer Space Introduction)
Germany / Iran (Richard Strauss) - Also Sprach Zarathustra: Introduction
(referencing the Persian prophet Zoroaster)
https://youtu.be/dqnDrtQT7Y8

Mark Alburger - "Before c. 3500 B.C.E." (1b. The Big Bang and Beyond)
The Audio Afterglow of the Big Bang; Vibration / Sound / Rhythm / Pitch / Dynamics / Timbre
https://youtu.be/Pi0njIAhxZ8
(N.B. Video blocked in Austria and Germany [!],
due to inclusion of South African waves from The Endless Summer[!] --
also a significant section about the physics of music deleted,
which will be shown at the 5pm, August 25, Optional Zoom Meeting!)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2xzrzp

Mark Alburger - "Before c. 3500 B.C.E." (1c. Distance and Direction)
Intervals / Scales
https://youtu.be/lE--gc-m8Rw

Mark Alburger - "Before c. 3500 B.C.E." (1d. Notation and Nuance)
Notation of Pitch and Rhythm; Senegal - Greetings from Podor
https://youtu.be/ZSUSPsfQQWc

Mark Alburger - "Before c. 3500 B.C.E." (1e. Speed to Solfege)
Tempo / Three Instrumental Groups;
New York / Austria (Richard Rodgers) - The Sound of Music: Do Re Mi]
https://youtu.be/cOBD8qrcMWE

Mark Alburger - "Before c. 3500 B.C.E." (1f. Solfege to Score)
Italy (Guido d'Arezzo) - Hymn to St. John; Solfege, Accidentals;
https://youtu.be/MAtZayqIUZg