[Drumming up some World Music business for Exam, Part I -- Take home! Due 6pm, Friday,
December 10, as attached pdf / jpg to mus21stc@gmail.com]
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=rJH9b9EQtHM (@ 38:34)
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
