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  • We are a music history podcast ranking classical composers from the 9th century to the present
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  • 0d(1) From Convergence To Liturgence: The Birth of Western Classical Music Part 1 - The Parent Strains

    0d(1) From Convergence To Liturgence: The Birth of Western Classical Music Part 1 - The Parent Strains
    May 5 2024
    Western Classical Music: Where did it come from and how did it "get that way?" We think we can answer the first question in two episodes, but the second one... well, you could build an entire show around that! Today, we trace the origins of WCM from the earliest notated fragments in the world to the first named composers in history. Join us as we overturn the claim that "Not a note of music has survived from the ancient world," and find out what deck-sanding and kosher lunch meats have in common (the answer will shock you!) CAVEAT 1: Correction: "Alexanders successors," not "Alexander's descendants" CAVEAT 2: Greek persecution of the Jews was almost exclusively under Antiochus IV, but it was severe. CAVEAT 3: The musical setting for the hymn to Caliope and Zeus stretches credibility. I mean, it does kinda sound like "Hush, Little Baby," doesn't it? The language is ancient though and, like we've said, the ancients are always surprising us. ;-) ==================== EARLY NOTATION LINKS What do we know about the oldest found melody? - Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/91048/what-do-we-know-about-the-oldest-found-melody The World's Oldest Surviving Music from circa 1950 BC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAPC1tG2BKY&themeRefresh=1 (PDF) A Musical and Mathematical Context for CBS 1766 | leon crickmore - Academia.edu https://www.academia.edu/1618638/A_Musical_and_Mathematical_Context_for_CBS_1766 The Oldest Known Melody (Hurrian Hymn no.6 - c.1400 B.C.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpxN2VXPMLc&themeRefresh=1 History's Oldest Song Modernized for 2020 (Samurai Guitarist) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHGB8dS1OsI&themeRefresh=1 =========================== ANCIENT HEBREW MUSIC LINKS The Origins of the Israelites: Episode 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_ao1i7LokM&list=PLuFO87ncQ_QQMmujr06QeRwMZC3goRd0n&index=6 The Pagan Origins of Judaism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZECezMYug8c&list=PLuFO87ncQ_QQMmujr06QeRwMZC3goRd0n&index=4&pp=gAQBiAQB8AUB What Music might Moses have heard as a Child in Egypt? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At7jUZquUc0 King David's Lyre; Echoes of Ancient Israel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiA86HI-GLU&list=PLuFO87ncQ_QQMmujr06QeRwMZC3goRd0n&index=12 Jerusalem Shofar at Sunrise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKQrBURDtQE The Sound of the Shofar calls us to worship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVHQdKLbTXw The original musical notes found in the Old Testament, played right before your eyes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh2KwEwaroc&list=PLuFO87ncQ_QQMmujr06QeRwMZC3goRd0n&index=19 The Original 3000 Year Old Melody of the Psalm 19 - Revealed? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M86lEfmVsEY&t=30s Chanticleer - Psalms 23:1-6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOZ3SjHIUzw Lost Melodies - Hebrew Chanting - Psalm 95 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEfF8fr5stY Choral singing in ancient Israel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06rIvIBoNfM Trio Mandili - Psalm 50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcbKoY7XpJE Mendelssohn: Variations Concertantes, Op. 17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiocuaABrWc ========================== ANCIENT GREEK MUSIC LINKS "Minoan" Lyre - Improvisation by Claudio Quadros https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0GzWKUQAJU Minoan Theater - The Minoan Experience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe_RsPWIOro&t=6s Ancient Minoan Civilization ("Creep" by Radiohead) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz3d5x-MUT4 Hymn to Zeus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc109u7Zw8M&list=PLE619C0863B707DDD&index=4 Ancient Lyre - Kleopas : Hymn to muse Kalliope and Apollo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Hpyov3Tt8 Rediscovering Ancient Greek Music: A performance reconstructs the past https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAmuQBnNty8&list=PLuFO87ncQ_QQMmujr06QeRwMZC3goRd0n&index=29 Cithara of the Golden Age - Michael Levy - Luthieros Music instruments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t1itGJ8Zpc Ancient Lyre - Barbiton Lyre of Sappho - Barbiton Lyre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWLRqI9iM-E Roman water organ performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US50QmZaeyE Eminem straight up reciting the iliad of homer in ancient greek (video by @GavMac39) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ubSwbyd0uI KANUN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy-Xvzi2YAM Musique de la Grèce antique https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1z0zaGDzlQ The Euripides Orestes Chorus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c2Ho9NvWY8
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    2 hrs and 35 mins
  • 0c(2) From Emergence To Convergence Part 2 - Indian & Chinese Classical Music

    0c(2) From Emergence To Convergence Part 2 - Indian & Chinese Classical Music
    Apr 20 2024

    We are back, and today we're headed east to meet two ancient classical music traditions that survive and thrive down to this day. Join us for an episode packed with music philosophy, microtones, and soooooo many instruments! Plus, find out why it's never a good idea to make deals with tectonic plates!



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    INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC LINKS



    Indian Classical Music Website

    https://www.indianclassicalmusic.com/


    Ravanhatta

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuQv70Aeci8


    Lute Sarasvatî Vînâ) - YouTube

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz-Xmh9mXow


    Tanpura Demonstration

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVeFX4O4zT0


    Ektar/Gopichand

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWxajijf_4c


    Ravi Kiran plays the Chitra Veena

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sy9omOERyA


    Sarangi - Instrument of A Hundred Colours | Musical Wonders of India - YouTube

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59FpEMSSQiE


    Rakesh Chaurasia - Classical Flute (Bansuri) - YouTube

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9cefe-xD04


    King of Shehnai UStad Ameer Khan Meeroo

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M99kSqJZgMQ


    Harmonium/Shruti Box

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jO_uHv4mH8&list=PLuFO87ncQ_QQD2X-QRTXBQJ1Ir8rx-al1&index=12


    Jaltarang - Indian National Anthem

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQQ6Qp-07TA


    Amazing Tabla Solo | Rimpa Siva | Farukhabad Gharana

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ2WseDHEPI


    40 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF INDIA

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwJ5FMx86Qg


    Ravi Shankar - Monterey Pop 1967

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk60ObnbIOk



    India's Beautiful Musical Traditions (Full Documentary) | Perspective - YouTube

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcaW9uxk91E




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    CHINESE CLASSICAL MUSIC LINKS



    Bianzhong of Marquis Yi of Zeng – Sounds of nature from 2,400 years ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6kXCZ_n80I


    Bianzhong: Performance on Traditional Chinese Bells

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhcCSeRj2PU


    Qing - Chinese Stone Chimes

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


    Guqin Master Chen Leiji

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35ZKN-H7at4


    Chinese Folk Songs for Dizi

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVgqCr5D7ps


    "The Untamed" - Dizi Cover

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecR6fCv7Ck4


    Hu Jianbing sheng improvisation

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5d9nID_9Nw


    Entrance Hymn for the Emperor

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bilTiAwk18


    Youlan

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8IpKuy8NNU
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    2 hrs and 32 mins
  • 0c(1.3) From Emergence To Convergence Part 1.3 - Music In Ancient Egypt

    0c(1.3) From Emergence To Convergence Part 1.3 - Music In Ancient Egypt
    Mar 24 2024

    Ancient Egyptians just loved to Egypt. And you know who else does? YOU! I mean, that's why you're here, right?


    Join us for the third segment of episode 0c(1) to uncover such timeless truths as: Which scales did the ancient Egyptians use and was there a master scale as per ancient Sumer? Why did ancient Egyptians REALLY start calling their kings Pharaohs? And who were the four female Hemet-Neter who co-wrote the one surviving work of popular music that comes down to us from these times (we think...)?


    CAVEAT 1: Still audible chop-suey with the edit points, BUT we have finally fixed this as of episode 0d(2.2)!


    CAVEAT 2: Michael Atherton & Peter Pringle = Independent scholars, NOT amateur ones!!! Sorry, guys. We love you both!


    CAVEAT 3: There is only one trumpet in the first example. The stereo sample I was working with had some right channel lag, so sounded like overlapping trumpets. Ah, tech shenanigans.


    Michael Atherton: Truth, Balance, Order

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9WOSqH1Oig


    Michael Atherton: Atum - Creator Sun God]

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9WOSqH1Oig


    Academia.edu - de Vartavan - Egyptian Dictionary

    https://www.academia.edu/24283355/Vocalised_Dictionary_of_Ancient_Egyptian_PLEASE_DO_NOT_DOWNLOAD_THIS_OLDER_VERSION_OF_THE_DICTIONARY_UNLESS_NECESSARY_DOWNLOAD_THE_NEW_2022_VERSION_SEE_ABOVE_ON_ACADEMIA_EDU_


    Neymar - Going Forth By Day

    https://nemuer.bandcamp.com/album/going-forth-by-day


    Egyptian Banquet Jam

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oNs_BrnKNE&list=PLuFO87ncQ_QSgVhJr90aL7nDvEWmoREGr&index=26


    Michael Atherton: Triumph of the Deceased

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdmpOjZzXUQ&list=PLuFO87ncQ_QSgVhJr90aL7nDvEWmoREGr&index=23


    Ancient Egyptian Harp

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBmWXmn11YE&list=PLuFO87ncQ_QSgVhJr90aL7nDvEWmoREGr&index=24


    "Hungarian" Scale - Double Harmonic Minor

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-exHbyhwI_0


    Egyptian Flute Improv

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdSIG7ekBlk


    Ney Flute, Oud, and Frame Drum Jam

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYQ_ol3L9Ag


    Douglas Irvine: Nenchefka's Orchestra

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzTBNfQ7_GA
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    1 hr and 23 mins
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