David Munrow and the Voyager golden record

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1136720592330096022006-01-08T23:43:00.002Z2009-07-21T12:28:57.420+01:00David Munrow and the Voyager golden record<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FPpiWNARTt4/SmWkBNJUDZI/AAAAAAAAJmw/9S9bMb5OnYQ/s1600-h/munrow2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360871272069991826" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 135px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FPpiWNARTt4/SmWkBNJUDZI/AAAAAAAAJmw/9S9bMb5OnYQ/s200/munrow2.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Munrow">David Munrow</a> died by his own hand on 15th May 1976 aged just thirty-three. The two <a href="http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/voyager.html">Voyager space craft</a> launched a year after his death each contained an eclectic 90-minute <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record">'golden record'</a> of music from many cultures, including Eastern and Western classics. Among them is a performance by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Munrow">David Munrow</a> and his Early Music Consort of London. Here is the music chosen for Voyager, and I am sure it will generate comment: * <a title="Bach" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bach">Bach</a>, <a title="Brandenburg Concerto" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Concerto">Brandenburg Concerto</a> No. 2 in F. First Movement, <a class="new" title="Munich Bach Orchestra" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Munich_Bach_Orchestra&action=edit">Munich Bach Orchestra</a>, <a title="Karl Richter" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Richter">Karl Richter</a>, conductor. 4:40 * <a title="Java (island)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(island)">Java</a>, court gamelan, "Kinds of Flowers", recorded by <a title="Robert E. Brown" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Brown">Robert E. Brown</a>. 4:43 * <a title="Senegal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal">Senegal</a>, percussion, recorded by <a class="new" title="Charles Duvelle" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Duvelle&action=edit">Charles Duvelle</a>. 2:08 * <a title="Zaire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaire">Zaire</a>, Pygmy girls' initiation song, recorded by <a title="Colin Turnbull" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Turnbull">Colin Turnbull</a>. 0:56 * <a title="Australia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia">Australia</a>, <a title="Indigenous Australians" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Australians">Aborigine</a> songs, "Morning Star" and "Devil Bird", recorded by <a class="new" title="Sandra LeBrun Holmes" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sandra_LeBrun_Holmes&action=edit">Sandra LeBrun Holmes</a>. 1:26 * <a title="Mexico" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico">Mexico</a>, "El Cascabel", performed by <a title="Lorenzo Barcelata" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Barcelata">Lorenzo Barcelata</a> and the <a class="new" title="Mariachi México" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mariachi_M%C3%A9xico&action=edit">Mariachi México</a>. 3:14 * "<a title="Johnny B. Goode" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_B._Goode">Johnny B. Goode</a>", written and performed by <a title="Chuck Berry" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Berry">Chuck Berry</a>. 2:38 * <a title="New Guinea" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guinea">New Guinea</a>, men's house song, recorded by <a class="new" title="Robert MacLennan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_MacLennan&action=edit">Robert MacLennan</a>. 1:20 * <a title="Japan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan">Japan</a>, shakuhachi, "Tsuru No Sugomori" ("Crane's Nest") performed by <a class="new" title="Goro Yamaguchi" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goro_Yamaguchi&action=edit">Goro Yamaguchi</a>. 4:51 * Bach, "Gavotte en rondeaux" from the Partita No. 3 in E major for <a title="Violin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin">Violin</a>, performed by <a title="Arthur Grumiaux" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Grumiaux">Arthur Grumiaux</a>. 2:55 * <a title="Mozart" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart">Mozart</a>, <a title="Die Zauberflöte" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_ZauberflÃ¶te">Die Zauberflöte</a>, Queen of the Night aria, no. 14. <a title="Edda Moser" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edda_Moser">Edda Moser</a>, soprano. <a title="Bavarian State Opera" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_State_Opera">Bavarian State Opera</a>, <a title="Munich" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich">Munich</a>, <a title="Wolfgang Sawallisch" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Sawallisch">Wolfgang Sawallisch</a>, conductor. 2:55 * <a title="Georgian SSR" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_SSR">Georgian S.S.R.</a>, chorus, "Tchakrulo", collected by <a title="Radio Moscow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Moscow">Radio Moscow</a>. 2:18 * <a title="Peru" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru">Peru</a>, panpipes and drum, collected by <a class="new" title="Casa de la Cultura" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Casa_de_la_Cultura&action=edit">Casa de la Cultura</a>, <a title="Lima" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima">Lima</a>. 0:52 * "Melancholy Blues", performed by <a title="Louis Armstrong" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong">Louis Armstrong</a> and his Hot Seven. 3:05 * <a title="Azerbaijan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a> S.S.R., bagpipes, recorded by Radio Moscow. 2:30 * <a title="Stravinsky" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stravinsky">Stravinsky</a>, <a title="Rite of Spring" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rite_of_Spring">Rite of Spring</a>, Sacrificial Dance, <a title="Columbia Symphony Orchestra" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Symphony_Orchestra">Columbia Symphony Orchestra</a>, Igor Stravinsky, conductor. 4:35 * Bach, <a title="The Well-Tempered Clavier" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well-Tempered_Clavier">The Well-Tempered Clavier</a>, Book 1, Prelude and Fugue in C, No.1. <a title="Glenn Gould" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Gould">Glenn Gould</a>, piano. 4:48 * <a title="Beethoven" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beethoven">Beethoven</a>, Fifth Symphony, First Movement, the <a title="Philharmonia Orchestra" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philharmonia_Orchestra">Philharmonia Orchestra</a>, <a title="Otto Klemperer" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Klemperer">Otto Klemperer</a>, conductor. 7:20 * <a title="Bulgaria" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a>, "Izlel je Delyo Hagdutin", sung by <a class="new" title="Valya Balkanska" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Valya_Balkanska&action=edit">Valya Balkanska</a>. 4:59 * <a title="Navajo Nation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_Nation">Navajo</a> Indians, Night Chant, recorded by <a class="new" title="Willard Rhodes" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Willard_Rhodes&action=edit">Willard Rhodes</a>. 0:57 * <a class="new" title="Holborne" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Holborne&action=edit">Holborne</a>, <a class="new" title="Paueans" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paueans&action=edit">Paueans</a>, <a title="Galliard" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galliard">Galliards</a>, <a class="new" title="Almains" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Almains&action=edit">Almains</a> and Other Short Aeirs, "The Fairie Round", performed by <a title="David Munrow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Munrow">David Munrow</a> and the <a class="new" title="Early Music Consort of London" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Early_Music_Consort_of_London&action=edit">Early Music Consort of London</a>. 1:17 * <a title="Solomon Islands" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Islands">Solomon Islands</a>, panpipes, collected by the <a class="new" title="Solomon Islands Broadcasting Service" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon_Islands_Broadcasting_Service&action=edit">Solomon Islands Broadcasting Service</a>. 1:12 * Peru, wedding song, recorded by <a title="John Cohen" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cohen">John Cohen</a>. 0:38 * <a title="China" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China">China</a>, <a title="Guqin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guqin">ch'in</a>, "Flowing Streams", performed by <a class="new" title="Guan Pinghu" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guan_Pinghu&action=edit">Kuan P'ing-hu</a>. 7:37 * <a title="India" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India">India</a>, <a title="Raga" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raga">raga</a>, "Jaat Kahan Ho", sung by <a title="Surashri Kesarbai Kerkar" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surashri_Kesarbai_Kerkar">Surshri Kesar Bai Kerkar</a>. 3:30 * "Dark Was the Night", written and performed by <a title="Blind Willie Johnson" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Willie_Johnson">Blind Willie Johnson</a>. 3:15 * Beethoven, <a title="String Quartet" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_Quartet">String Quartet</a> No. 13 in B flat, Opus 130, Cavatina, performed by <a class="new" title="Budapest String Quartet" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Budapest_String_Quartet&action=edit">Budapest String Quartet.</a> 6:37 David Munrow, more than early music <a href="http://www.overgrownpath.com/2007/05/david-munrow-more-than-early-music.html">here</a>, many more Munrow resources <a href="http://www.overgrownpath.com/search/label/david%20munrow">here.</a> Source for Voyager Golden Record listing is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record">Wikipedia</a>. 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