Please refer to #1 or #2 Assignments for MUS 309 paper writing for stipulations and
suggestions for writing.
Your paper is a review-commentary rather than a formal scholarly paper. Please avoid filler and repetition of long titles, biographical or other information, unless needed. The emphasis is on content quality, including your awareness, observation, details, audience experience, venue, insights, comparisons, what you liked more, liked less and why, your interpretation, backing up your statements with some specific descriiptions/evidence, plus correct spelling of works’ titles, correct grammar and spelling, and citation of sources as needed. Avoid “filler” and repeating titles, including biographical information that is not necessary to communicate your ideas.
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MUS 309 #5 Assignment: (3 ½ to 4 pages total, maximum).
Choose and write about 5 to a maximum of 6 selections (total) from the lists below related to class materials and experiences:
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Percussionist Ignacio Corrales’ performance-Demo-interview involved special performance
techniques, possibilities of interpretation, sticks technique, and how an individual performer can cope with managing solo rehearsals and stage performance with the assistance of digital devices. Ignacio is self-sufficient as possible, but also performs with different ensemble combinations. If you attended Ignacio’s visit, you can write about that experience and about one (1) of his performances on video. If you didn’t attend his demo visit, write about two (2) of Ignacio’s youtube performances. If you heard his recital you may choose to write about a piece, again.
Bagajes Perdidos (Lost Baggage) by Sergio Fidemraizer
performed by Ignacio Corrales, percussionist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2_qilfThVo&ab_channel=IgnacioCorrales
Le Livre des Claviers II. by Philippe Manoury.
Played by Ignacio Corrales and Khesner Oliveira, Approx. 8 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwT5mQ6R080
Aphasia by Mark Applebaum (for vocalist or actor: performing sign language
with taped sounds. Performed by Ignacio Corrales, percussionist. Percussionists may perform avant-garde theatrical works requiring acting, singing, miming, variously communicating with audience and with other performers.
A page of the music notation/score with info. is seen here:
https://web.stanford.edu/~applemk/portfolio-works-aphasia.html
Ignacio Coralles’s performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0klMbromOM&ab_channel=IgnacioCorrales
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Point / Cloud is David Crowell’s new album. He got a great review in UK’s The Guardian
titled, “David Crowell: Point/Cloud review – minimalism that sparkles with joy.”
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/26/david-crowell-point-cloud-review-better-company-records The Point/Cloud album includes performances with Sandbox Percussion, Dan Lippel, Mak Grgic, and Stony Brook alum Iva Casian Lakos.
WNYC Studios “New Sounds” also wrote about David’s Verses for a Liminal Space
composed for Sandbox percussion:
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/newsounds/episodes/4877-new-releases-april-2024
Music: Verses for a Liminal Space is on David Crowell’s Point/Cloud album (on PLAYLIST, below).
Music VIDEO: Point / Cloud (ii) https://vimeo.com/929622502 (under 4 min.)
Performed by guitar wiz Dan Lippel,
Music and Video by David Crowell, Produced and mixed by David Crowell
WRITE your impression of either the
Music VIDEO of Point / Cloud (ii) above or write about (1) PLAYLIST selection (mention the title). If you like, choose 2 works from the PLAYLIST and write about only 3 works from the MISC. Selections that follow this.
PLAYLIST Point / Cloud https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m_hbP1zns7koP868on9tbDt1Doan0wfeM
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MISC. SELECTIONS: Choose any 3 or maximum 4 to write about:
DakhaBrakha experimented with Ukrainian folk music, and added rhythms of the surrounding world to their music, creating bright, unique and unforgettable image of DakhaBrakha. Accompanied by traditional instrumentation from different countries, the band’s powerful and uncompromising vocal delivery creates a trans-national sound. At the crossroads of folklore and theatre their musical spectrum is intimate, experimental and riotous, plumbing the depths of contemporary roots and rhythms, inspiring cultural and artistic liberation.
DakhaBrakha – Baby (Live on KEXP) with folk chanting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1KdGDEkj_U
BBC DakhaBrakha “Hutsul Witches: Ukrainian psychedelic folk”
They’re celebrating western Carpathian Mountain people, the Hutsul culture
of western Ukraine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutsuls
Гуцульские ведьмы : Украинский психоделический фолк
Dakhabrakha Glastonbury festival, UK 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXUygENoFHU
DakhaBrakha in “The Voice of Water” (from Ukrainian: “Голос води”)
a project from band Onuka including The Maneken/producer Eugene Filatov, with Katya Chilly,
and DakhaBrakha. There are art installation sound and motion devices in the water and
the water itself is an art object aurally, visually, that inspires artistic, musical expression.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs4GKqStOdw
Some water instruments are here: https://voice.morshynska.ua/instruments
DakhaBrakha singing a poem text by contemporary avant-garde poet, novelist, poet, novelist, essayist, musician, translator, and social activist Serhiy Zhadan who is in the video. Zhadan is an internationally acclaimed writer, with 12 books of poetry and 7 novels, multimedia productions, plays, many songs, commentaries and is winner of more than a dozen literary awards. His poem “The Bird” (to be learned by heart)” is in English at:
https://www.kovcheh.ua/en/reader/serhij-zhadan-ptah
SONG-poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlSa8J8rOlw
Water drumming – Vanuatu, South Pacific Ocean archipelago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEgJhfWKq4A
Hermeto Pascoal – Música da Lagoa (Sinfonia do Alto Ribeira, 1985 )
Pascoal, a musician from Northeastern Brazil, gained notariety when he performed in three compositions that he wrote for Miles David on a 1971 album. He often makes music with unconventional objects such as teapots, children’s toys, and animals, as well as keyboards, button accordions, melodica, saxophones, guitars, flutes, voices, various brass and folkloric instruments] He uses nature as a basis for his compositions such as this one, performed in his home region of Lagoa in Brazil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZbfNtDCHdM
Kalush orchestra/band featuring Maryna Krut – A Dozen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBQNbr8kiO0
The Maneken is a band founded by composer, DJ and sound producer
Eugene Filatov in 2008. The band’s sound has varied from dance electronic and disco to pop-rock and classic funk. As a sound producer, Eugene Filatov collaborates with Nata Zhizhchenko on the music for the band ONUKA. Additionally, he is a film composer and a member of the European Film Academy.
The Maneken Keep Moving
https://www.youtube.com/user/themaneken
DakhaBrakha – Yanky / ДахаБраха – Янки / 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUHEU4M4P3M
DakhaBrakha ♫ Live at Glastonbury – Janki (Yanky) another venue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urgc2c5hdzE
DakhaBrakha – accordion, voices with bird and animal sounds, nature.
NPR interview, performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxg1dL_x0gw
Dakhabrakha – Vesna (Springtime) | Live @ Sziget Festival 2017/Spring Cosmo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeM4dXs2bxg
About Béla Bartók’s DUOS for 2 violins – Classical style violin with folk tunes in 20th c. composer’s musical language of techniques, variations, interpretations. Bartók first focused on folk tunes of Hungary, then expanded his explorations to Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Serbia, and to Turkish and Arabic countries. He asked people to perform songs for him, which he then wrote down. He shared this interest in folk music with his contemporary Zoltán Kodály, who advised Bartók.
ABOUT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Bart%C3%B3k
Béla Bartók – 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98 (1931) Duos 1-43 performed by Gyorgy Pauk and Kazuki Sawa. Duo 44 performed by Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-dP9UXo0Hk
EXCERPTS
A Rutén Nóta (Ruthenian Song) – 6:50
Dal (A Rhythm Song) – 16:04
Szunyogtánc (Mosquito Dance) – 19:16
“Ugyan Édes Komámasszony…” (Teasing Song) – 22:15
Rutén Kolomejka (Ruthenian Kolomejka) – 31:38
Pizzicato – 41:52
“Erdélyi” Tánc (Transylvanian Dance) – 42:53
Zydeco and French creole music. Louisiana Cajun, French Acadian
Louisiana Creole people and Cajun people: What’s the Difference? Race, Ethnicity, History…
and Creole people that live in the modern American state of Louisiana, and why and how they both came to be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suiDNTDt8AI
Cajun accordion known as a squeezebox, is single-row diatonic button accordion used for playing Cajun music. Zydeco and creole musicians play the Cajun accordion with a
zydeco and creole music sound, respectively.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun_accordion
Song: Jole Blon | Doug Kershaw, fiddle and Mark O’Connor accompanying on fiddle with
his band in performing the Cajun folk music classic “Cajun anthem” Jolie Blonde (or Blon, etc.)
Cajun ‘’national anthem’’, recorded in 1929, is a cajun classic. With many spelling and variations,
Jole Blon is about “a pretty girlfriend” who had left the singer and moved back in with her family, and is also now in the arms of another man. The singer concludes that there are plenty of other women around. The fiddle-based melody dates to before the 1900s.
FIDDLING
Dewey Balfa – Jai Ete Au Bal (I was at the dance)- playing Fiddlesticks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aPJHYpyfV0
Classical Shirley Givens plays Fiddlesticks with her son Kevin Wimmer Cajun music.
Violinist Shirley Givens, Juilliard pedagogue, plays traditional Old Time Fiddlesticks with her son, Cajun fiddler Kevin Wimmer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbDxF65vL_Q
Shirley Givens and violinist Tao play Bartok duets:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jagf__TTVYs
Cajun musician Nathan Abshire – Jolie Blond –with Accordion: “like a Blues…
…dispelling the bad times for the good times”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjWZ9OyYdj4
La jolie blonde Richard Belton – nearly bellowing, nasal style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFp8tovcvxI
The Best “Boil ’em Cabbage Down” ever! – Mark O’Connor/Wynton Marsalis at the
Jazz Festival in Marciac, France – 2010. For more information on Mark O’Connor with Wynton improv. spinning out with the tune. Mark O’Connor “fiddlin’ “ —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyt646v4hxA
Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton play – Corrine, Corrina (1920s country blues song)
It reentered the folk-like acoustical tradition in the American folk music revival of the 1960s when Bob Dylan began playing a version he titled “Corrina, Corrina”. Although his blues-based version contains lyrics and song structure from “Corrine Corrina”, his melody is lifted from a different 1937 song. Playing the Blues at Jazz-Lincoln Center.
with Taj Mahal, an American blues musician who plays the guitar, piano, banjo, harmonium, Bo Chatmon, Mitchell Parish,J. Mayo Williams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7eeb1MTkUY
Metallica – Enter Sandman (Official Music Video)
American heavy metal band: with roots in blues rock, psychedelic rock and acid rock, heavy metal bands developed a thick, monumental sound characterized by distorted guitars, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats and loudness. The band was formed in 1981 in Los Angeles.
Fast tempos, instrumentals and aggressive musicianship made them one of the founding “big four” bands of thrash metal, alongside Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer. Former lead guitarist Dave Mustaine formed Megadeth after being fired from Metallica.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-E-LDc384
Squarepusher
Thomas Russell Jenkinson, aka Squarepusher, a classically trained English electronic musician, record producer, bassist, multi-instrumentalist and DJ. Influenced by house music, IDM-intelligent dance music, hardcore, acid house and techno.
Squarepusher – Terminal Slam (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlhV-OKHecI
Squarepusher – Beep Street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKJ-0ZO4pxo
Jean John (Žan Tetičkovič, drummer,) plays – Beep Street (Squarepusher)
at “The Octopus” studio. Tetičkovič is a classically trained composer, arranger, producer, mixer, orchestral and choral conductor, drummer and band leader.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5BJsRHuhaI
AJ’s Footsteps – by Žan Tetičkovič / Jean John Trio
featuring Emmet Cohen, piano, Russell Hall, bass, Žan Tetičkovič, drummer.
Live at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Washington D.C., 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=3exAFlm-0_w
A Love Lane Nocturne – by Žan Tetičkovič / Jean John Trio
featuring Emmet Cohen, piano, Russell Hall, bass, Žan Tetičkovič, drummer.
Live at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Washington D.C., 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-2s3fV3t2Q
