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YouTube Podcasts Part 1
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This is the sound that started it all for me.
In a 1972 UCLA graduate class on the Music of Africa,
Dr. Nicholas England played Temusewo Mukasa's
"Ganga" and "Olutalo ol'we Nsinsi".
These brought the bardic tradition
of Homer alive.
There has been considerable research on
the music of Uganda by scholars such as
Gerhard Kubik, Klaus Wachsman, Lois Anderson
and Joseph Kyagambiddwa.
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Here Bruckner ends his symphony on a 13th chord.
This harmony is discussed in the movie
"20 Feet From Stardom" where the backup singers
discuss their strategies to hit this harmony.
Julian Carrillo championed the 13th harmonic.
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At Los Angeles High School in 1962
Winifred Fall used Paul Hindemith's
"Craft of Musical Composition"
in her class on music composition.
Here Hindemith makes the overtone series
fundamental to music composition.
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This symphony is in three movements:
1. Engelkonzert (Angelic Concert)
2. Grablegung (Entombment)
3. Versuchung des heiligen Antonius (The Temptation of Saint Anthony)
Here you can see that a deep, religious thread
weaves its way through the art of written music.
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She introduces us to the "undertone series"
as a way to understand how ancient
Greek music sounded. But it brings up
some major problems with the terms
"overtone" and "undertone" and
if Hindemith is correct in implying that the
overtone series is fundamental to music,
there is something amiss at the heart of
Western Music.
The big picture is that they are
complementary halves of one phenomenon.
They are the "proportions in the movements
of celestial bodies - the Sun, Moon, and planets
-as a form of music." [Wikipedia "Musica universalis"]
as developed by Johannes Kepler.
The main tonality of "Ode to Greta" is the silent G#.
G# bisects D in half creating a tritone.
11 quasi-equal pentatonics are generated
in the upper harmonics, creating:
Notice the 2 tetrachords outlined by the "concert pitch" (CP) notes,
and how the scale splits down the middle at the silent tritone .
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