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
