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SOUNDS
FROM SILENCE
Boxed record album with 24 page booklet,
now includes CD. Professor Anne Draffkorn Kilmer and Richard
Crocker of the University of California at Berkeley narrate
information about ancient near eastern music texts and tuning
instructions for the Sumerian lyre. The informative booklet
gives excellent translations and precise information about the
texts containing this information. Included are also photographs
of the Hurrian Hymn tablet, a musical transcription in modern
notation, and many delightful drawings of musicians and instruments
from ancient soruces in the near east. |
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SEVEN
MODES FOR AN ANCIENT LYRE click
here to listen
All material in this collection is in the seven
modal tunings, using samples from Professor Kilmer's replica
of the Silver Lyre now in the British Museum. Both
Hurrian Hymn versions are based on Kilmer's original arrangement,
but have rhythms and simple harmonies added. One version is
done using the ascending scale tuning for the lyre, as in her
published arrangement, and the other assumes
a descending scale, with a differentmeter for variety. Other
pieces are based in part on themes known to be relatively old,
from around the Mediterranean area, including the inland middle
east. There are 13 pieces in all, ranging from lullabys to victory
songs, dances, and royal processions. |
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LAYING
THE ROUGH, TESTING THE FINE
Reprint
of a scholarly paper from Studien zur Misikarchaologie I "Laying
the Rough, Testing the Fine," by Smith and Kilmer discusses
diatonic lyre tuning procedures on the tablet CBS10996 from
Nippur, first millennium, B C., "The Mathematical Text."
A comparison is made between this ancient set of tunings and
the modern piano tuning procedure called "Laying the Bearing
Octave." Musical notation and tablature examples given.
Other aspects of the subject discussed. Fourtenn names for string
pairs (two-note intervals or ditones) on the lyre. |
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THE GATE
AT THE END OF THE WORLD
A
collection of songs by Anne Bredon. Over thirty simple, elegant,
thoughtful and lively songs that sound as though they have
been around for hundreds of years. Ms Bredon has the distinction
of having her song "Babe, Im Gonna Leave You" recorded
by Joan Baez and also the British group Led Zeppelin. Hand-drawn
decorative borders and lots of details surrounding the book's
origins make fascinating reading and an excellent source of
simple, folk-sounding material never recorded. Or just read
the lyrics to "Moon Daughter," "Wet Sand,"
"Earth song," "Too Many Mountains," or
her "Come Away," arranged as "Ninkasi's Dance"
on Seven Modes for an Ancient Lyre, to name a few. Melodies
and chord names given. Some full-page illustrations.
** This book may be purchased for $3.00 less without the spiral
binding. Please contact jcsmith8@pacbell.net
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