ANTHRO 138M:

MUSIC AS EXPRESSIVE CULTURE

Fall 2011

 

 

 

Music Examples heard in Class

Intentions and Meanings

1. Baz Luhrmann - when doves cry (extended mix) from Romeo and Juliette NO SOUND EXAMPLE
2. Hyphy: Keak Da Sneak: Super Hyphy NO SOUND EXAMPLE
3. Spanish Bullfight music.Pasodoble-Gallito-Santiago-Lope
4. St Petersburg Waltzes from the time of Czar Nicholas
5. 12th Century Christmas Motet: Balaam de quo vaticinans. Anonymous 4 -
6. Portugal Fisherman's Song: Algarve; Leva, Leva. -
7. Alabama Chain Gang -
8. Spain: La Muixeranga -

Etic-Emic - Looking inside and from outside the Culture

Etic - Looking fro outisde the culture

1. Al Jarreau: Since I Fell For You. RealAudio
2. Russia: The Last Chord RealAudi
3. Chinese Ping Tan RealAudio
4. Turkey:Muyyzen Senar: Ormanci RealAudio
5. Turkey:Sezen Aksu: Tutsak (Modern Song) RealAudio
5. Turkey:Muyyzen Senar: Ormanci RealAudio
6. Vietnamese Vong Co: 3 Stringed instruments. RealAudio
7. Mexico:Los Lobos: Tu y las Nubes RealAudio
8. Romanian Gypsy:Romica: Tot am zis, ma duc, ma duc RealAudio

some love songs that are unlike this type
9. Norway: My Golden Boy RealAudio
10. Japan: Yasuki Bushi. RealAudio
11. Fats Waller: Your Feets Too Big RealAudio
12. Portugal Fado. Vicent Camara: O Riu que nos viu nascer RealAudio

READING

From : Music the Cultural Context: Robert Garfias, 2004

Introduction and Chapter one, Chapter two, and Note on Etic and Emic

Ideas About Death Expressed in Music

1. Bach, J.S.: Ich will den kreustab gernetragen. Last chorale. Komm O Tod. RealAudio
2. Bach, J.S.: Ich Habe Genug. Ich freue mich auf meinen tod. RealAudio
3. Spiritual(Alabma): Death is Awful. Doc Ward Vera Hall. RealAudio
4. Mexico: La Valentina. Trio Leones de Cabrito. RealAudio
5. Puerto Rico: Solo con la muerte. La Calandria RealAudio
6. Argentina: Atahualpa Yupanqui. Vidala para mi Sombra RealAudio
7. Rameau: Sejour de l’eternelle paix, Excerpt from Castor and Pollox RealAudio
8. Cambodia: Funeral Music RealAudio
9. Bali : Gender Wayang. Mesem RealAudio
10.Chinese Funeral Procession Hong Kong RealAudio
11. Ghana: Lobi Funeral music RealAudio
12. Chopin: Funeral March fr Sonata No.2 RealAudio
13. Charles Gounod: Funeral March of a Marionette Audio
14. New Orleans Jazz: Jelly Roll Morton: Dead Man Blues 1926 RealAudio
15. Puerto Rico: Salsa. Ismael Rivera: Entierro a la Moda. RealAudio
16. William Balcolm: The Graceful Ghost RealAudio
17. Stravinsky: Symphonies for Winds. RealAudio
18. Jazz: Charlie Mingus: Theme for Lester Young. RealAudio
19. Romania: Bocet. RealAudio
20. Philippines, Sanga, Sanga. Lament RealAudio
21. Funeral Scene from Rebeitko RealAudio

 

Emic
The Middle East

 

1. Afghanistan: Rabob Ensemble: RealAudio
2. Iran: Sehtar solo. Nur Ali Burmand. Mahur Charmezrab RealAudio
3. Iran: Rural music. with tar, daire and ney RealAudio
4. Iran. Popular Singer: Gugush RealAudio
5. Armenia: Folk dance with duduk RealAudio
6. Armenia: Hymn. From the First Light. RealAudio
7. Georgia: Toasting Song. RealAudio
8. Abkhazia: Song with instrumental accompaniment RealAudio
7. Kirghizstan: Voice with komuz or dombraRealAudio
8. Uzbekistan: Classical song RealAudio
9. Turkey: Classical Ottoman Music. RealAudio
10. Turkish Gypsy Music. RealAudio
11. Arabic: Old Egypt. Makam Sika RealAudio
12. Arabic: Simon Shaheen Ensemble: Ferafeza Pesrev RealAudio
13. Morocco: Berber Women singing RealAudio
14. Morocco: Bnet Houariat-Women's Singing group. RealAudi

15. Morocco: Berber Ahidous singing group RealAudio
16. Morocco: Berber minstrels w/guenbrit RealAudio
17. Morocco: Andalucian Nauba. RealAudio
18. Morocco: Arabic style dance music RealAudio
19. Morocco: Gnawa music RealAudio
20. In Paris: Orchestre Nacional des Barbes RealAudio
21. In Paris: Algerian Women's Group:Djura-djura "I am young, I want to live" RealAudio
22. Modern Morocco Pop music. RealAudio

 

What is Music?

 

1. Whale songs RealAudio
2. Elephant Orchestra. RealAudio
3. Cannibal Ox: Raspberry Fields RealAudio
4. Terje Insungset: Floating RealAudio
5. Lubomir Melnyk : Fountain RealAudio

READING

 

Music for Monkeys

Cultural Adaptation

 

1. Foragers: Forest People of the Congo, Africa:Whistle ensemble audio
2. Horticulturalists: Hmong Gong Ensemble audio
3. Agriculturalists: Mexico flute and drum ensemble audio
4. Pastoralists: Song with Inanga zither audio
5. Industrialists: Paris; La Mourillado audio
6. Inudstrialists: Paris; La Java-Apache audio
7. Inudstrialists: Paris; French Gypsy Jazz Musique Manouche. - audio

 

Music and the Environment

 

1. Gomera Island Whistling - audio
2. Swiss Yodelling - audio
3. Tibet: Lhamo Theater - audio
4. Turkey: Shepherd's kaval story - audio
5. Turkey: Shepherd's story played on saz - audio
6. Romania: Shepherd has lost his Sheep - audio
7. Kirghiz: Horsemen's lute, Kobuz - audio

 

Natonalism in the Baroque

 

1. Germany: Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Two Violins RealAudio
2. France: Lully - Marche des Turcs RealAudio
3. Italy: Locatelli. Concerto Grosso movement RealAudio
4. England: Henry Purcell: Hornpipe. RealAudio
5. Spain: Blasco de Nebra: Harpsichord Sonata: RealAudio
6. Germany: Telemann Tafel Musik II, Overture D major. RealAudio
7. England: Handel. Organ Concerto in D Minor RealAudio 

Meanings and Intentions - Music About Music

1. Takemitsu Toru: Towards the Sea RealAudio
2. Antonio Vivaldi: Dream from Flute Concerto "La Notte" RealAudio
3. Chinese qin: Mist on RIvers Xiao and Xiang: RealAudio
4. Charles Ives: Putnam's Camp. RealAudio
5. Sergei PRokofiev: Lt. Kije RealAudio
6. Bali: Gamelan Gambang RealAudio
7.
Bali" Made Lebah: Gambangan RealAudio
8. Japan: Gagaku. RealAudio
9. Japan: Koto music: Kogo RealAudio
10. The Roots: Star Pointro RealAudio
11. Colin McPhee: Tabu Tabuhan RealAudio

Emic

 

Myanmar/Burma

 

1. Hsaing ensemble at Shinbyu RealAudio
2. Dophat band at Poungyi Pyan RealAudio
3. Nat Hsaing ensemble for Nat Pwe RealAudio
4. Mandalay Royal Sidaw orchestra RealAudio
5. Anyein with clowns RealAudio
6. Procession for Thin Gyan Festival RealAudio
7. Saung Gauk and Patala RealAudio
8. Burmese Piano RealAudio
9. Guitar and violin RealAudio
10. Modern song in old style. RealAudio

 

Diffusion

 

3. Mexico, Yucatan: Guitar group . RealAudio
4. Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar RealAudio


The Guitar in Portugal

 

1. Lisbon Fado: Guitarra and Viola RealAudio
2. Coimbra Fado: Guitarra and Viola RealAudio
3. Portuguese Folk Music: RealAudio
4. Hawaiian Ukulele RealAudio
5. Timor String Band RealAudio
6. Indonesia: Kroncong RealAudio

 

More Diffusion

1. Chopin Minute Waltz Realaudio
2. Scott Joplin: Magnetic Rag Realaudio
3. Brazil Street Samba Realaudio
4. Brazil: Laercio de Freitas: Teclas e Dedos Realaudio

The Diffusion of Central European Dance Forms

 

1. Turkish Zurna and Davul (actually from Macedonia) Toska RealAudio
2. Polish bagpipe RealAudio
3. Romania. Gypsy Brass Fanfare Ciocirlia: Batuta Realaudio
3. Polish String band from Zakopane Realaudio
4. Albania: String band Realaudio
5. Slovak String band. Realaudio
6. Slovak Roma String Band Realaudio
7. Norwegian Hardingsfele Realaudio
8. Swedish Fiddlers (two) Realaudio
9. Manintal din Sig, Romania RealAudio
10. WIener Blut, Johann Strauss Realaudio
11. Vienna: Sperl Polka Johann Strauss RealAudio
12. Vienna Schmp3el Musik: Alt Wiener Tanz Schau ma eini Schmp3meln aus Wien RealAudio
13. Czech Polka Brass Pod jednou strechou(under the same roof) Karel Valdauf RealAudio
14. American late 19th Century Dance music. Moret: Jay Silver Heels RealAudio
15. Ireland: Ceili: the green Blanket RealAudio
16. Zyedco: Allons danser Colinda .Lawtell Brothers RealAudio
17. Victor Herbert: Panamericana (1901) Realaudio
18. Ranchera: Con la pistola y el corazon. Los Lobos RealAudio
19. Brazil: Toada. Mae diferente Teixeirinha RealAudio
20. Malagasy: Afindrafindrao Trio ny Antsaly RealAudio
21. Ambon, Indonesia: Katereji J. Alfons RealAudio
22. Tohono O'odham: Papago Sunliners: Tequila Sunrise Waila RealAudio

If you are ever in the mood for a big blast, think about trying to make a Sacher Torte.
Here is a pdf, in which I have put three recipes. You can experiment around and see which you like best.Sacher-torte

AFTER THE MIDTERM

The final will cover only from the midterm on.

 

Form

 

Simple form
1. Happy Birthday NO EXAMPLE
2. Mary Had a little Lamb NO EXAMPLE
3. Yankee Doodle NO EXAMPLE
Two Part form
4. Hawaii: Opae' - Cazimero Bros RealAudio
Three part form - - Blues
5. Lightning Hopkins: Trouble Stay ‘Way From My Door." RealAudio
6. Stars and Stripes Forever NO EXAMPLE
7. AABA - Lady Be Good: Benny Goodman RealAudio
Leader and Chorus
8. Kenya, Kipsigis: Chimeroja mp3
9. Golden Gate Quartet: Who'll Be a Witness mp3
10. Gospel: I hear the Voice of Jesus mp3
11. More Blues Azure-te Nat King Cole Realaudio
12. Sevillanas, Traditional Realaudio
13. Sevillanas, Traditional, 2nd example Realaudio
14. Modern Sevillanas, Singer: Clara Montes. Realaudio
15. Sevillanas Del Adios (analyzed) Realaudio

 

READING

 

From : Music the Cultural Context: Robert Garfias, 2004
How Music Organizes Time"

 

Genre

 

Folk
1. Manaitas Tapatias. New Mexico Hispanic RealAudio
2. Zydeco: Allons a Lafayette. RealAudio
3. Go Jake. Bill Frisell. Nashville.RealAudio

 

Popular
4. Fred Asaire: White Tie and Tails. RealAudio
5. Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay. Otis Redding. RealAudio
6. Laika: The Girl Without Hands RealAudio
7. Pluramon: Hello Shadow: RealAudio

Classical
8. Arabic Classical Music. Simon Shaheen Esnemble: Ferafeza Pesrev RealAudio
9. Ryukyus Yaeyama Court Music: Akamma Bushi RealAudio
10. Zimbabwe: Matepe. Music for the spirits of the ancestors RealAudio
11. Mozart: Piano Concerto RealAudio

12. Ryuichi Sakamoto: The Last Emperor. Rain RealAudio
13. Goraguer: La Planete Sauvage RealAudio
14. John Williams: Star Wars. Imperial Attack RealAudio

 

Melodic Types

1. Logogenic: Fiji Islands: Meke Wesi. RealAudio
2. Melogenic: Triplets. Arthur Schwartz. Fred Astaire, Nanette Fabray, Jack Buchanan RealAudio
3. Pathogenic: a)Lay Down Body. The Seniorlites. Black gospel singing RealAudio
b)Spain:Saeta. Andalucia. RealAudio

 

Textural Types

 

Monophonic:
1. Hildegard VonBingen: Kyrie. RealAudio
2. Toba, Argentina: Farewell Song RealAudio

Heterophonic:
1. Thailand Mahori: Rako overture. RealAudio
2.Tunisia. Andalucian Nauba. RealAudio
3. Central Java Gamelan Orchestra RealAudio

Polyphonic
1. Canonic: Moondog: Coffee Beans. Audio
2. Imitative:Locatelli (1659-1764): Concerto No. 2 in C minor, 4th Mov. Audio
3. Imitative :J. S. Bach: Trio Sonata No 4. BWV 528. 2nd Mov. Andante. Audio
4. Familiar: Southern Portugal: La Florentina. Vocal group. Audio
5. Familiar Polyphonic: The Hi Lo's: I Thought About You Audio
6. Another example: Crosby, Stills, and Nash: Blackbird Audio
7. Harmonic/chordal: Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass boys: Roanoke. Audio
8. More harmonic/chordal: Hawaii: Sons of Hawaii: Kalama 'oe Audio
9. Romanian Gypsy Song: Romica Puceanu Audio
10. " George Shearing: Street of Dreams Audio
11. Alabama Afro American Brass Band Audio
12. Islamic Philippines: Kulingtang esemble. Audio

Voices

 

1. Luisa Tettrazini: Bellini-la sonambula mp3
2. Cecilia Bartoli: Vivaldi from Il Tamerlano Audio
3. Ustad Faiyaz Khan Audio
4. Adbul Karim Khan Audio
5. Cantonese Opera audio
6. Navaho Yei ba chai night songs Audio
7. Japanese Court Music: Ise no Umi audio
8. Inuit Singing Audio
9. Spain, Ibiza. Campaniles Audio
7. Burundi. Singing with Inanga zither. Audio
8. India: Vedic chanting. Audio
9. Tibet Buddhist Chant: Gyuto Monks: Mahakala with horns Audio


READING

 

From : Music the Cultural Context: Robert Garfias, 2004
How Music Organizes Time"

 

Time and Tempo

 

Divisive Rhythmic principle.
1. Art Tatum: I’ll Never be the Same (Various) Audio

 

Creating interest by shifting bass lines
2. James P. Johnson: Riffs Audio

 

Additive principle
3. Greek Zembehiko fr "Rembetiko". 9 beat cycle Audio
4. Macedonian Brass Band. 14 beat cycle. Pravo Stipsko Horo. Brakata Kadriovshi Audio

Additive Plus Divisive
5. Chaturlal: Panchamsaveri 15 beats divided into 10. Pattern: Audio

Polyrhythm
6. West Africa: Wolof Sufi: Bak. Audio
7. Ghana:Dagbon.Gurinsi-waa. Music to make the Horses Dance Audio
8. Nigeria: Kokoro. Single headed frame drum Audio

9. Cuba: Bata Ensemble: Song to Elegua Audio

Polyrhythm in Asia

10. Japan Noh theater ensemble Audio

Uncountable and Free Rhythms
9. Romanian Gypsy Songs: Romica Puceanu. Nu m-amagi, baeiti Audio
10. Miles Davis: Lonely Fire Audio
11. Ju'hoansi: song Audio

Repetition and Variation

 

1. Erik Satie. Embryons Desseches Audio
2. Africa: Malinke Drumming. Audio
3. Cuba: La Masacre. Audio
4. James Brown: Popcorn with Feeling Audio
5. Tomtom Club: Genius of Love Audio
6. Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach Audio
7. Beethoven: Diabelli Variations
a. Theme b. Variation 5 c. Variation 13 d.Variation 30 e. Finale
8. Philippines: Maguindanao Kulintang. Audio
9. India. Bin solo. Audio
10. Shona Mbira music. Audio
11. Romania: Mountaineer's Hora Audio
12. Mexico: Tarahumara Matachines music. Audio
13. Mexico Chiapas: Chamula Harp, guitar and violin Audio

Organology

Instruments (no examples- just a list)

The Sachs-Hornbostel System of Classification

 

Aerophones

 

 

Membranophones

 

barrel drums
goblet drums
tambourines
hourglass drums
laced drums
tuneable drums
pressure drums
tympany (kettledrums
)

 

Idiophones

 

bells
gongs
stone slabs
xylophones
gong chimes
rattles
shakers
scrapers
mbira (lamelophones)

Chordophones

 

 

EXTRA LECTURE

You will be responsible for the lecture, "On the Development of the zither in the Far East" on the following page.

https://eee.uci.edu/programs/rgarfias/video-lectures.html

There are four lectures on the page. I would be delighted if you listened to all of them, but you will only be responsible for the first one.

 

 

In case you are interested, here is the announcement to the publication of the festschrift in my honor.

http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=10346&edition_id=13689

And here is the opening chapter which I contributed and which is on my life and work.

006 Garfias Ch1.pdf

Here is a UCI announcement about the same

http://www.socsci.uci.edu/node/11657

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Robert Garfias
Anthropology
UCI

11.28.11