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. ;-)
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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
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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
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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
