This will be my 500 th blog post on www.xworldmusic.wordpress.com. I started to blog there , with the kind permission of Xandi , last year in may . Til this day i´ve posted nearly every day one or more music examples of worldmusic. And i decided , the 500th must be one with a topic and i found yesterday on Cordulas Site this article about Voyager One , a satellite which left in these days our solar system.
The Voyager 1 spacecraft is a 722 kg (1,590 lb) space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977 to study the outer Solar System and interstellar medium.Each Voyager space probe carries a gold-plated audio-visual disc in the event that either spacecraft is ever found by intelligent life-forms from other planetary systems. The discs carry photos of the Earth and its lifeforms, a range of scientific information, spoken greetings from people (e.g. the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the President of the United States) and a medley, „Sounds of Earth“, that includes the sounds of whales, a baby crying, waves breaking on a shore, and a collection of Earth music, including works by Mozart, Blind Willie Johnson, and Chuck Berry’s „Johnny B. Goode“. (from Wikipedia article )
I decided to post the track list of this record , because i believe it´s a good part of our human musical creativity and the examples are coming from all over the world , from different countries , cultures , languages and genres – and at least we should know ,what kind of music material we ´d like to offer to the aliens , don´t we ??
I’m gone sent into outer space – to find another race
I’ll take your brain to another dimension
Pay close attention (lyrics from „Out of Space “ from the Prodigy , not included on the golden record but a title which fits perfect to this topic )
#1 -Greetings from the Secretary General UN Kurt Waldheim
#2 – Greetings in 55 languages
#3 -UN Greetings – Whale Greetings
#4 – The Sounds of Earth
#5 – Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F, First Movement , Johan Sebastian Bach
#6 – Kinds of Flowers – Java Court Gamelan
#7 – Tchenhoukoumen Senegal Percussion
#8 – Pygmy Girls Initiation Song Zaire
#9 – Morning Star and Devil Bird Aborigine song
#10 – El cascabel performed by Lorenzo Barcelata
#11 – Johnny B. Goode – Chuck Berry
#12 – Men´s House Song – Papua New Guinea
#13 – Cranes in their nest – performed by Coro Yamaguchi
#14 – Gavotte en Rondeau – J.S.bach
#15 – the magic flute -queen of the night aria no.14 -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#16 – tchakrulo – Georgian Chorus
#17 – Panpipes and Drum Song – Peru
#18 – louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven – Melancholy Blues
#19 – Radio Moscow – Azerbaijan Bag Pipes , Ugam
#20 – Rite of Spring – Sacificial Dance – Igor Stravinsky
#21 – The Well Tempered Clavier , book 2, no.1 – Johann Sebastian Bach
#22 – Symphony no.5 , first movement – Ludwig Van Beethoven
#23 – Izlel Je Delyo Hagdutin – Bulgaria – sung by Valya Balkanska
#24 – Navajo Night Chant
#25 – Fairie Round, from Paueans, Gaillards, Almains, and Other
#26 – Melanesian Panpipes – Solomon Islands
#27 – Wedding Song – Kohn Cohen – Peru
#28 – Flowering Streams – China – by Kuan P´ing hu
#29 – Jaat Kahan Ho – India – Surshri Kesar Bai kerkar
#30 – Dark was the Night – Blind Willie Johnson
#31 – String Quartet No. 13 , in B Flat , opus 130, Cavatina
Playlist in German – Die Liste der Titel in deutsch und mit Länderangabe
Classic
Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburgisches Konzert Nr. 2, 1. Satz; Münchner Bachorchester, Leitung: Karl Richter
J. S. Bach: Gavotte en rondeaux aus der Partita Nr. 3 in E-Dur für Violine solo; Arthur Grumiaux
J. S. Bach: Präludium und Fuge C-Dur aus dem zweiten Teil des Wohltemperierten Klaviers; Glenn Gould
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonie Nr. 5, 1. Satz; Philharmonia Orchestra, London, Leitung: Otto Klemperer
Ludwig van Beethoven: Streichquartett in B-Dur, Op. 130, Cavatina; Budapest String Quartet
Anthony Holborne: Pavans, Galliards, Almains and Other Short Airs; The Fairie Round; David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Arie der Königin der Nacht Nr. 14 aus Die Zauberflöte; Edda Moser (Sopran), Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper; Leitung: Wolfgang Sawallisch
Igor Strawinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps – Opfertanz der Auserwählten; Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Leitung: Igor Strawinsky
Rock Blues
Chuck Berry: Johnny B. Goode
Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven: Melancholy Blues
Blind Willie Johnson: Dark Was the Night
Folklore
Aserbajdschan: Musik für Dudelsäcke
Australien: Zwei Songs der Aborigines: Morning Star und Devil Bird
Bulgarien: Das Lied Izlel je Delyo Hagdutin, gesungen von Valya Balkanska
China: Fließende Ströme, gespielt von Kuan P’ing-hu
Georgien: Chormusik Tchakrulo
Indien: Der Raga Jaat Kahan Ho, gesungen von Surshri Kesar Bai Kerkar
Japan: Shakuhachi-Flöte, Tsuru No Sugomori (»Kranichnest«), gespielt von Goro Yamaguchi
Java: Königliche Gamelan-Hofmusik: Kinds of Flowers
Kongo: Initiations-Lied der Pygmäen-Mädchen
Mexico: El Cascabel, gespielt von Lorenzo Barcelata and the Mariachi México
Navajo-Indianer: Nachtgesang
Neuguinea: Männerlied
Peru: Musik für Panflöten und Trommel
Peru: Hochzeitslied
Senegal: Percussion
Salomon-Inseln: Musik für Panflöten
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