Jay Rahn (jayrahn@yorku.ca)
jayrahn at yorku.ca

Required Text:

1. White, D. Stuart, and E. Aviva. Music in Our World: An Active Listening Approach. New York: McGraw-Hill. 2001—available via the Bookstore: http://www.bookstore.yorku.ca/buy_textbooks.asp

Required Course Kit:

Including detailed course outline and syllabus, self-assessment exercises, and additional notes, available online at the course’s eClass website.

Required Audio Materials:

2-CD Student Set for G. White, D. Stuart, and E. Aviva. Music in Our World: An Active Listening Approach. New York: McGraw-Hill. 2001. Note:  This set of CDs is no longer available through McGraw-Hill.

However, new and used copies might be available via online vendors, e.g.:

http://www.amazon.com/Music-Our-World-Active-Listening-Approach/dp/0072328185

Also, you can download the pieces listed below that are marked with ‘iT’ at the iTunes Canada Store http://www.apple.com/ca/itunes/   (be sure that the Canada logo is in the bottom right corner of the webpage)

Further, you can stream the pieces marked with ‘Y’ below via electronic resources at York's Library’s Sound and Moving Image Library website: http://researchguides.library.yorku.ca/content.php?pid=241166&sid=1998889.

Near the bottom of this Webpage, click on ‘Naxos Music Library.’ Note that for these streamed items and depending on the audio accessibility of your playback device, you might use the default player (NML) or select ‘Use Old Player’ in the upper right corner of the NML player.

As well, certain individual items that are not available through iTunes are available through vendors like amazon (marked with ‘A’ below).

Here, then, is the list of individual pieces accessible through the York Library (Y) through iTunes (iT), and through vendors other than iTunes (A):

(iT) Dolphin Dreams from album Jonathan Goldman Dolphin Dreams: the first 90 seconds, discussed in the textbook, is previewed at the iTunes website: https://music.apple.com/us/album/dolphin-dreams/1143344891 and the entire album can be purchased for $9.99;

(A) also available as an album, in a variety of formats and prices, at, e.g.: http://www.amazon.com/Dolphin-Dream-Jonathan-Goldman/dp/B0000523JV;

as well, you can preview the beginning of the piece, discussed in the textbook, at https://www.healingsounds.com/product/dolphin-dreams-cd/

(Y) Copland, Simple Gifts (Appalachian Spring); also accessible at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiLTwtuBi-o

As well, the original song is available on youtube in various modern arrangements: e.g.,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=eOx9quc-iow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWTDgc96bg8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RPUjuraS5U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amcGIfMu0bw&list=RDamcGIfMu0bw&start_radio=1&rv=amcGIfMu0bw&t=34

(iT) Exodus    7:40    Bob Marley    Exodus (Remastered)    $1.29

https://music.apple.com/ca/album/exodus/1469575763?i=1469576109

(iT) Redemption Song    3:47    Bob Marley    Legend (Remastered) [Bonus Tracks]    $1.29

https://music.apple.com/ca/album/redemption-song/1469575763?i=1469576035

Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swrQknZ-0nU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm8FjyutbIk

Grand Entry   

videos of Mille Lacs Grand Entry at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjPbf4V9Dkk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0afenk5pLvQ

recording at https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Entry-Song/dp/B005T7F8H4 $0.99

(iT) Bay a Glezele Mashke    2:08    Klezmer Conservatory Band    Klez!    $0.99

https://music.apple.com/ca/album/bay-a-glezele-mashke/712038673?i=712039535

(iT) Oy Abram    2:50    Klezmer Conservatory Band    Klez!    $0.99

https://music.apple.com/ca/album/oy-abram/712038673?i=712039413

(iT) Shango (Chan-Go)  7:02    Olatunji    Drums of Passion    $0.99

https://music.apple.com/ca/album/shango-chant-to-the-god-of-thunder/853575375?i=853575564

(Y)  Hildegard, De sancta Maria: O virga ac diadema track 12

(iT) Von Bingen: Choral Music (Voices of Ascension). (Delos DE3219), track 1, O virga ac diadema 6:15            $0.99

https://music.apple.com/ca/album/o-virga-ac-diadema/284113392?i=284113459

(A) Máru-Bihág    Ravi Shankar, via youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGzXBoaGpyI

(Y) Puccini: Boheme (La). (Tebaldi). (Naxos Historical 8.110252-53), disc 1, tracks 12 and 13, Quando m’en vo (Musetta’s Waltz) and Chi l’ha richiesto?/Caro!

(A) Also Quando m’en vo  sung by several sopranos at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPVZZPQAJpo  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8ldwCCy8mE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQEwU7ukx1Y

Second Part of Course: June 27 to August 9

(Y) Vivaldi: 4 Seasons (The). Tafelmusik, tracks 1 to 3, “La primavera” (Spring)

(A) Also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LiztfE1X7E

(iT) Woody Guthrie. This Land Is Your Land. The Asch Recordings, vol. 1 $0.99

Pete Seeger. The Essential Pete Seeger (live) $1.29

Peter, Paul, and Mary, The Very Best of Peter, Paul, and Mary $1.29

Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE4H0k8TDgw

(A) As well, a Canadian version at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwLyVl11iV4

Sweet Honey in the Rock. Sylvie. On Folkways: A Vision Shared. http://www.amazon.com/Sylvie-Album-Version/dp/B001384H1Q $ 1.29

Also live performance accessible at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-YGzsUc2iE

(Y) Britten. Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. Instruments of the Orchestra. (Vanguard Classics OVC-8096-97, disc 2, tracks 19 to 34

(A) Also Young Person’s Guide – Britten at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HhTMJ2bek0

(iT) Gending Petegak. Gender Wayang Pemarwan on Music for the Balinese Shadow Play ‘The Mahabharata’ $0.99

(iT) Huachos    Mallku de los Andes    Cóndor de los Andes    $0.99

Also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB8AwVK8Z9U

(Y) Haydn, J.: Symphonies, Vol. 4 (Fey) - Nos. 34, 39, 40, 50 (Haenssler Classic CD98.407), vol. 4, tracks 1 to 4, Symphony no. 39 in G minor, Hob. I:39

(A) Also via youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afqy_QPZlTw

(A) Sultan Veled Peshrev. Dogan Ergin. Mevlevi Ensemble-Returning (CD), complete dervish ceremony https://www.steveweissmusic.com/product/775/audio-recordings $4.99

(iT) Absalon, fili mi    4:26    The Hilliard Ensemble    Josquin: Motets & Chansons    $0.99

(A) Also via youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itBNN7OBQcQ

(iT) Suite Thursday: Misfit Blues    3:37    Duke Ellington    The Great Paris Concert    $1.29

(iT) Suite Thursday: Schwiphti    2:51    Duke Ellington    The Great Paris Concert    $1.29

(iT) Suite Thursday: Zweet Zurzday    3:54    Duke Ellington    The Great Paris Concert    $1.29

(iT) Suite Thursday: Lay-By    6:27    Duke Ellington    The Great Paris

Concert    $1.29

(A) Also via youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LysXjZ5_yFc

Brief Written Assignment – 15 %

• 1-2 pages: 150-300 words; due 11:30 p.m. Thursday, June 16

Mid-Term Test, last week of February – 30%

• Date Time and Venue to be Announced by E-mail

Final Exam  – 55%

• Date, Time, and Venue to be Scheduled by Registrar

TBA at course website and via email when course begins.