Ron Dunn

Music 1C Listening Examples

Listening Examples

Chapter 1-6 (1st Ed) 1-5 (later editions)

Melody: Over the Rainbow
Rhythm Black Magic Woman
Texture:

Example 1, "La petenera"
Example 2, Banturi Kriti
Example 3: Fugue in C minor

Musical Instrument Classification:

Example 1: C Jam Blues Duke Ellington Orchestra
Example 2. Concierto de Aranjuez, Joaquin Rodrigo
Example 3: Hay Unos Ojos, Linda Ronstadt

Chapter 6, Sub Saharan Africa

Ewe:

Mbira:

Nhemamusasa excerpt

Kora: Yundum Nko
Pop Music
Fela Kuti: No Buredi excerpt
Nu Buredi: Complete version

Other West African resource

Jali/Jalolu

Music of the Jalolu: a wonderful explanation by a young jali
of the importance of the kora and jalolu in youth culture.

Music of the Jalolu: short balafon and kora performance
(very famous Diabate family musicians!)

Music of the Jalolu: YouTube audio of Mory Kante performing "Yeke Yeke." Kante is discussed in the textbook; a great hybrid of Senegalese kora and Western music.

Mbira

Mbira demonstration video: a very clear demonstration of mbira technique. Missing, however, are the bottle-cap jingles, the resonating gourd, and the rest of the ensemble--a second
mbira player and hosho rattle.

Popular music

African Popular Music: Part 1 of a documentary about Fela Kuti
African Popular Music: A very good representation of Fela's political music (video)
African Popular Music: Mbalax: Ndeye Marie Ndiaye
African Popular Music: more mbalax: Ismaile Sane
African Popular Music: Juju's biggest star, King Sunny Ade. in 1984.
Notice the traditional instruments--"talking" drum, iron bells, hand drums (congas are Cuba's version of African hand drums)
African Popular Music: Another, more recent, more slick, performance by King Sunny Ade