1. by Prof. Lydia Ayers

2. Origin of Music Linked with Sex Music evolved from mating calls of birds and animals. Bird calls and gibbon songs http://www.enature.com/guides/birding_identify.asp – Doves in Bali – "reeds and gongs around their necks …" Naturalist Charles Darwin

3. Early Instruments The rhythm slowly came from the body and took up residence in: woodmetal and skin bone stone

4. Early Instruments 7700-9000 year-old red crane bone flutes from burials at Jiahu, Henan Province, China –Scientists believe the flute, second from bottom, is the world's oldest still- playable musical instrument. –[i:3] Example using ancient Chinese folk song Xiao Bai Cai (Little Cabbage) http://www.pubaf.bnl.gov/pr/bnlpr092299.html

6. Types of Instruments Membranophones Idiophones Chordophones Aerophones Electronic

7. Membranophones Drums A membrane covers one or more openings in a hollow body. Striking causes the membrane to vibrate Nez Perce, “War Dance” (Native American) Native American drums http://www.southweststore.com/pgs/drum.html http://sioux.org/traditional_dancer.htm

8. Pangut (Korea) Farmer's Band Music, performed at Korean Folk Village –Drums Puk (barrel drum) Changgo (hour-glass drum) Sogo (small frame drum) –Gongs Kkwaenggwari (small gong) Changgo – hour-glass drum

9. Taiko (Japan) Drums Za-kyo composed and performed by: Furyu- dagaku Matsuri Shu on Kyoyu http://www.taiko-center.co.jp/enshiwa.html

10. African Drums djembe bendir frame drum

11. Talking Drums African languages have high and low sounds drum language uses high and low tones to represent the words talking drum

12. Tabla (India) Ustad Alla Rakha Ustad Alla Rakha plays basic tabla sounds in Ravi Shankar in Concert [ii:29] Zakir Hussain and Ustad Alla Rakha, Tabla Duet, with Ustad Sultan Khan, Sarangi Zakir Hussain & Ustad Alla Rakha leftright