Settling The Score – Details, episodes & analysis

THE WAIT IS OVER!!! Welcome to Notker Balbulus Part 2. The Bio! The Ranking! The Brodie being the Brodie! Need we say more? Smash that play button and LET’S DO THIS!!!

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LINKS

Notker Balbulus: Sequnezen, Tropen & Gregorianischer Choral aud dem Kloster St. Gallen by Ordo Virtutum on Amazon Music

https://www.amazon.com/Dilecte-Deo-Galle/dp/B004PUAGJG

Chant Wars by Sequentia on Amazon Music

https://www.amazon.com/Chant-Wars-Sequentia/dp/B001BKM150

Media vita in morte summus (attrib. to Notker Balbulus) (Responsorio, 9th century)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JVo9eKW3Os

WE MADE IT!!! Welcome, friends, to the episode you’ve all been waiting for. Eh, well its prequel anyway. We’ve split the episode into two parts for release in simo. In this prefatory episode you will learn the critical information you need to approach classical music on its own terms. In this first segment you will discover:

1. The four reasons you’re hearing classical music wrong, and how to fix them!

2. The exact roadmap for Season 1

3. The final steps in the birth of Gregorian chant, and

4. Just what do Nargaroth and Black Sabbath have in common with Mozart and Beethoven?

This is all key information for the road ahead, so don’t fall asleep on it!

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LINKS

The Christian Singer: Charlemagne and Beyond - Professor Christopher Page

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S4RW8XhOXc

Voices From Ancient Abbeys - Ensemble Organum & Various Artists

https://rb.gy/z80wb9

Chant Wars - Sequentia & Dialogos

https://rb.gy/x23rfq

Surprise!

Schedule updates are just so boring and utilitarian, aren't they? Not when they come with a recording of one of the world's greatest cellists performing one of the world's greatest cello pieces!

CAVEAT: The YouTube performance linked below is not the same performance as the recording heard in this episode, but it's the same musicians and conductor in both concerts.

Jacqueline du Pre & Daniel Barenboim - Elgar Cello Concerto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPhkZW_jwc0

Classical Nerd - The Enigmatic Edward Elgar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHxO-LrH-xQ

Ok! After three weeks of tech setbacks and editing catastrophes, victory is finally at hand! By victory, we of course mean this episode. Welcome to our mammoth second half of the first background episode. We think it beats the stones off of last week’s episode because this one has 18 examples of tribal music and prehistoric instruments. I mean, even your favorite podcast can’t say that. And they’re definitely way better than us.

CAVEAT 1: Yes, editing points are still obvious and there’s a tiny bit of non-offensive clipping in Ronnie’s vox around the middle of the episode. The original audio was lost so you’re stuck with this version.

CAVEAT 2: I've since found much better examples of some of the instruments we've covered so far. You can hear some of them on the following playlist.

Prehistoric Music Playlist - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKfoitRvQeE&list=PLOi7pxxD014__19vJx2PQQQL8jdjUb7m3

Ok, enough prefacing. Dig this behemoth out!

Diacoustics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOw8RrK4eUU&list=PLaoYKn5vw7_M6u3lqRBDm6453ybET-sKg

San - Bushmen - Kalahari, South Africa...

https://www.krugerpark.co.za/africa_bushmen.html

Harmony Under the Kalahari Moon: San Bushman Cultural Dance - YouTube

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

Original Maori Haka Dance - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI851yJUQQw

Australian Aborigine Kangaroo Dance - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b-vI3Nf50g&t=39s

Vulture Bone Whistle/Flute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZlB9KWpbJ0

Ljuben Dimkaroski Plays the Divje Babe Bone Flute

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

Sound Experiment Hohle Fels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC8Iv2AamrE

Grotte des Trois-Frères

https://www.donsmaps.com/troisfreres.html

Berimbe Solo - EBANDO Mougongo Bwiti Music Video !Mambwiti! - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbkl4Y9nDH8

kalumbu Berimbe Song, by Chris Haambwiila - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk5c-VsKn1E

Wooden Cricket Block/Rasp - Percussion for Children - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b55PezgXIAk

Archaeologist Dr. Jean-Loup Ringot Rocks The Lithopone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ4hEubvWE4&list=PLOi7pxxD014__19vJx2PQQQL8jdjUb7m3&index=10

Jan Marmenout @ Litophone Improvisation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhHhOwmgMA0&list=PLOi7pxxD014__19vJx2PQQQL8jdjUb7m3&index=19

Tito Bustillo Lithophone

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

The Great Stalacpipe Organ - Moonlight Sonata - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsKUUn29tSs

Cave Music Explores Ancient Acoustics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKfoitRvQeE&list=PLOi7pxxD014__19vJx2PQQQL8jdjUb7m3

M33 La Pasiega Cave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p93ZV0C8m3w&list=PLOi7pxxD014__19vJx2PQQQL8jdjUb7m3&index=28

Hello, and welcome to our first real episode! Still not ranking anyone, but that doesn't mean we can't have fun talking shop! In this episode, we explore the most fundamental question of all: What is Music? Join us as we trace the evolutionary roots of human musicality from its origins in the animal kingdom through to its emergence with the dawn of self-aware upright bipeds. Finally, we'll resolve such time-honored questions as which came first; music or language, does that tree falling in the forest really make a sound, and which fast food joint is the best place to copyright your song! DIG IT!

MASSIVE CAVEAT: This episode could not have existed without the tremendous research of the YouTuber Diacoustics. This episode borrows heavily from him, including several block quotations that are entirely his own. I make no claim to them, as it is his brilliant presentation that is at the heart of this episode, serving as its framework and intertwining with our own presentation.

MODERATE CAVEAT: Yeah, we know. The audio’s a bit rough. Please pardon the occasional echo/overlap and obvious edit points. We’re new, so please don’t count us a disgrace to classical music podcasting just yet. And don’t blame our mastering guy. This is all Ronnie’s fault. :)

MINOR CAVEAT: Yes, I know we use the term “melody” in a rather cavalier fashion. Here we use the term in its widest possible context as a series of pitches occurring in succession to one another. We will define the term more properly when we arrive at Gregorian chant in episode 0d.

MORE CAVEAR THAN CAVEAT: This episode is neither intended as an authoritative resource for either the mating behavior of Cambrian roundworms, nor as tax advice when dealing with Paleozoic apex predators. We waive all liability with respect to you messing with Anomalocaris. That's on you, bruh.

Welcome to our pilot episode, where we discuss the uncredibly serious business of ranking classical composers!

Introducing... Settling The Score!

Hello, and welcome to our FINAL BACKGROUND EPISODE! Now brace yourself for a veritable tidal wave of musical knowledge as we trace the origins and development of Christian chant through the better part of the 1st millennium CE. This episode is absolutely jam packed with hard-to-find information and positively GORGEOUS music from half a dozen early chant traditions. Along the way, we will encounter young lectors who competed against pagan singers, alongside incredible early music theorists (Thanks Alypios!) and a veritable who's who of early medieval bigwigs, and a shady antiquities dealer known only as "Two Time Slim."

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LINKS

"Two Time Slim" by Patch & The Toonsnangs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Z_bYPT7F8

Oxyrhynchus Hymn

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

Phos Hilaron In Greek (original)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJcBgcHkdac&list=PLuFO87ncQ_QQMmujr06QeRwMZC3goRd0n&index=45

Phos Hilaron in English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=618jSKxAdzg&list=PLuFO87ncQ_QQMmujr06QeRwMZC3goRd0n&index=46

Byzantine Hymn - Δεύτε λαοί

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q8i0CYs-CM

Ambrosian chant - Ecce apertum est Templum tabernaculi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrUxaISuk50&list=PLoth48xsiR7_3ti-wboND6p7z491G5CoA

Chant des Gaules - Alleluia

Music of the Ancient World - Early Music - From Ancient Times To The Renaissance

Album Link

https://youtu.be/YPT1lsUsmxk?list=PLuFO87ncQ_QQMmujr06QeRwMZC3goRd0n&t=3422

Reconstructing the Songs of Boethius | Restoring Lost Songs: Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy

https://boethius.mus.cam.ac.uk/reconstructing-songs-boethius

Ensemble Sequentia

Reconstructing the Songs of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-tALWHHUaE&list=PLuFO87ncQ_QQMmujr06QeRwMZC3goRd0n&index=47

Office des lectures: Officium "Alleluia, ortus conclusus"

(Mozarabic Alleluia)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Khr76M5j0w&list=OLAK5uy_kZdH4-DvH173dr3QjJjWBD3-AgkXJLEjQ&index=2

Hymnus Peregrinorum: Compostela, Dum Pater Familias (Lyric Video) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE96AgZZn90

The first half of our final background episode comprises an all too brisk survey of some of the most interesting musical contributions of ancient Rome. Find out how the Romans REALLY felt about music and learn why, as Polybius once said, custom is always king. Oh! And we have emperor Nero's ACTUAL singing practice routine! That alone is worth the $0 cost of admission (I mean it's worth more than that, but you're getting it for free anyway because we're such a swell pair of guys). Enjoy!

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LINKS

Reproduction of an Ancient Roman Tuba or Lituus. Used between 500 BC and AD 100.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7GmJFK-07s

Cornu de Pompeii

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IlZgj2FAHA

Roman Replica Hydraulus at the Roman Baths

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VesLeVMK5aE&t=14s

What Did Popular Music In Ancient Rome Sound Like?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZOsoDes3Es

Synaulia - Music from Ancient Rome, Vol. 1: Wind Instruments - Amazon.com Music

https://www.amazon.com/Synaulia-Music-Ancient-Rome-Instruments/dp/B00000DMKM

Synaulia - Music from Ancient Rome, Vol. 2: String Instruments - Amazon.com Music

https://www.amazon.com/-/he/Nicoletta-Gervasi/dp/B000077SX2

Play Festina Lente by Ludi Scaenici on Amazon Music

https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0CQPQ3734

Amazon.com: Musique de l'antiquité grecque : Ensemble Kérylos feat. Annie Bélis: Digital Music

https://www.amazon.com/Musique-lantiquit%C3%A9-grecque-Ensemble-K%C3%A9rylos/dp/B083Q49HV5

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