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Voyager Music

The document discusses the music that was included on the golden record sent aboard Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 during their 1977 launches. It provides a list of 90 musical selections from around the world ranging from classical to traditional folk music. The music was chosen to portray the diversity of Earth's cultures and was encoded on a phonograph record intended to introduce alien civilizations to Earth's music should the spacecrafts be discovered.

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Voyager Music

The document discusses the music that was included on the golden record sent aboard Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 during their 1977 launches. It provides a list of 90 musical selections from around the world ranging from classical to traditional folk music. The music was chosen to portray the diversity of Earth's cultures and was encoded on a phonograph record intended to introduce alien civilizations to Earth's music should the spacecrafts be discovered.

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Music sent on “golden Record” on Voyager (at what speed?).

List at
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/music.html

Includes the record Nevena Tsoneva sings with the bagpipe which is called Izlel e Delio Haidutin
(traditional) interpreted by Valia Balkanska http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWLMZnhUvUo

A foul-tempered green and hairy creature, who lives on Mount Crumpit, and hates most things inc Christmas –
sound familiar? – yes it’s the Grinch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VarlV8dP6ak “…stare at the
abyss…..slip slowly into madness…” Classic

Music On Voyager Record

 Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F. First Movement, Munich Bach Orchestra,


Karl Richter, conductor. 4:40 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olLi5RtE_6M
 Java, court gamelan, "Kinds of Flowers," recorded by Robert Brown. 4:43
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxeJc857Qwo
 Senegal, percussion, recorded by Charles Duvelle. 2:08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FmUAk0hTaI
 Zaire, Pygmy girls' initiation song, recorded by Colin Turnbull. 0:56
 Australia, Aborigine songs, "Morning Star" and "Devil Bird," recorded by Sandra
LeBrun Holmes. 1:26 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lapeaVqH43g
 Mexico, "El Cascabel," performed by Lorenzo Barcelata and the Mariachi México.
3:14 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkKxN9QJ2wI
 "Johnny B. Goode," written and performed by Chuck Berry. 2:38
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FboXO1FtbvE
 New Guinea, men's house song, recorded by Robert MacLennan. 1:20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_a3gIA0sRA
 Japan, shakuhachi, "Tsuru No Sugomori" ("Crane's Nest,") performed by Goro
Yamaguchi. 4:51 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzhVAnOO45Q
 Bach, "Gavotte en rondeaux" from the Partita No. 3 in E major for Violin,
performed by Arthur Grumiaux. 2:55 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrDxGY4lYHc
 Mozart, The Magic Flute, Queen of the Night aria, no. 14. Edda Moser, soprano.
Bavarian State Opera, Munich, Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor. 2:55
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z694TLir3qg
 Georgian S.S.R., chorus, "Tchakrulo," collected by Radio Moscow. 2:18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV85zrndvdY
 Peru, panpipes and drum, collected by Casa de la Cultura, Lima. 0:52
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRAXUFN_3qc
 "Melancholy Blues," performed by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven. 3:05
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9BC5PY_OaM
 Azerbaijan S.S.R., bagpipes, recorded by Radio Moscow. 2:30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlkQqd4Scco
 Stravinsky, Rite of Spring, Sacrificial Dance, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Igor
Stravinsky, conductor. 4:35 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WX3hFFyIdE
 Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, Prelude and Fugue in C, No.1. Glenn
Gould, piano. 4:48 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSDCnKN3Sq4
 Beethoven, Fifth Symphony, First Movement, the Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto
Klemperer, conductor. 7:20 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MO5XcNH8Eg
 Bulgaria, "Izlel je Delyo Hagdutin," sung by Valya Balkanska. 4:59
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWLMZnhUvUo
 Navajo Indians, Night Chant, recorded by Willard Rhodes. 0:57
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAZLQgvAhCs
 Holborne, Paueans, Galliards, Almains and Other Short Aeirs, "The Fairie Round,"
performed by David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London. 1:17
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oQJ7GkpxOg
 Solomon Islands, panpipes, collected by the Solomon Islands Broadcasting
Service. 1:12 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r16tEPd5tNM
 Peru, wedding song, recorded by John Cohen. 0:38 http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=GcwPMeqS97Y
 China, ch'in, "Flowing Streams," performed by Kuan P'ing-hu. 7:37
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lReQHyOYgU
 India, raga, "Jaat Kahan Ho," sung by Surshri Kesar Bai Kerkar. 3:30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek7NKH5mTgs
 "Dark Was the Night," written and performed by Blind Willie Johnson. 3:15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8AuYmID4wc
 Beethoven, String Quartet No. 13 in B flat, Opus 130, Cavatina, performed by
Budapest String Quartet. 6:37

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