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
Media vita in morte summus (attrib. to Notker Balbulus) (Responsorio, 9th century)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JVo9eKW3Os
1a. Notker Balbulus
Sunday, September 1, 2024 • Duration 01:14:13
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
Schedule Update & Listening Recommendation #1
Thursday, January 18, 2024 • Duration 26:38
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
0b(2) - From Divergence To Emergence: Music Origins & Prehistory Part 2 - Prehistoric Music
Thursday, January 4, 2024 • Duration 02:10:48
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.
Harmony Under the Kalahari Moon: San Bushman Cultural Dance - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTL_TdONVBs
Original Maori Haka Dance - YouTube
0b(1) - From Divergence To Emergence: Music Origins & Prehistory Part 1 - Music Origins
Tuesday, December 12, 2023 • Duration 01:21:50
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.
0a - Performance Notes
Sunday, November 26, 2023 • Duration 17:01
Welcome to our pilot episode, where we discuss the uncredibly serious business of ranking classical composers!
STS Official Trailer
Friday, November 24, 2023 • Duration 01:23
Introducing... Settling The Score!
0d(2.2) From Convergence To Liturgence: The Birth of Western Classical Music Part 2.2 - Early Christian Chant
Monday, July 1, 2024 • Duration 02:37:03
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."
0d(2.1) From Convergence To Liturgence: The Birth of Western Classical Music Part 2.1 - Music In Ancient Rome
Saturday, June 8, 2024 • Duration 01:13:18
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
0d(1) From Convergence To Liturgence: The Birth of Western Classical Music Part 1 - The Parent Strains
Sunday, May 5, 2024 • Duration 02:35:00
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
(PDF) A Musical and Mathematical Context for CBS 1766 | leon crickmore - Academia.edu
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