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by Prof. Lydia Ayers

Exploring Music Introduction 2. by Prof. Lydia Ayers. Music evolved from mating calls of birds and animals. <1:6> Bird calls and gibbon songs. Origin of Music Linked with Sex. Naturalist Charles Darwin. http://www.enature.com/guides/birding_identify.asp.

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by Prof. Lydia Ayers

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  1. Exploring Music Introduction 2 by Prof. Lydia Ayers

  2. Music evolved from mating calls of birds and animals. <1:6> Bird calls and gibbon songs Origin of MusicLinked with Sex Naturalist Charles Darwin http://www.enature.com/guides/birding_identify.asp • <1:7> Doves in Bali – "reeds and gongs around their necks …"

  3. Early Instruments • The rhythm slowly came from the body and took up residence in: bone wood metal and skin stone

  4. Early Instruments • 7700-9000 year-old red crane bone flutes from burials at Jiahu, Henan Province, China • Scientists believe the flute, second from bottom, is the world's oldest still-playable musical instrument. • [i:3] Example using ancient Chinese folk song Xiao Bai Cai (Little Cabbage) http://www.pubaf.bnl.gov/pr/bnlpr092299.html

  5. Classification of Instruments

  6. Types of Instruments • Membranophones • Idiophones • Chordophones • Aerophones • Electronic

  7. Membranophones • Drums • A membrane covers one or more openings in a hollow body. • Striking causes the membrane to vibrate • <8:01> Nez Perce, “War Dance” (Native American) Native American drums http://www.southweststore.com/pgs/drum.html http://sioux.org/traditional_dancer.htm

  8. <4:05> Pangut (Korea) • Farmer's Band Music, performed at Korean Folk Village • Drums • Puk (barrel drum) • Changgo (hour-glass drum) • Sogo (small frame drum) • Gongs • Kkwaenggwari (small gong) Changgo – hour-glass drum

  9. Taiko (Japan) • Drums • <4:07>Za-kyo composed and performed by: Furyu-dagaku Matsuri Shu on Kyoyu http://www.taiko-center.co.jp/enshiwa.html

  10. African Drums djembe bendir frame drum

  11. <7:3> Talking Drums • African languages have high and low sounds • drum language uses high and low tones to represent the words talking drum

  12. Ustad Alla Rakha Tabla (India) • <3:01> Ustad Alla Rakha plays basic tabla sounds in Ravi Shankar in Concert • <3:03> [ii:29] Zakir Hussain and Ustad Alla Rakha, Tabla Duet, with Ustad Sultan Khan, Sarangi left right Zakir Hussain & Ustad Alla Rakha

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