The first musical instrument was most probably a flute, made from an animal bone. The oldest of these flutes is from 43,000 years ago. But music itself – chants, songs, incantations – is much, much older. Our stories look at music in its many forms, ancient and modern, and from many cultures.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Happy-Birthday-to-Patty-Smith-Hill.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/27/2001 Patty Smith Hill and “Happy Birthday to You” Transcript We all know the song, and probably can’t remember when we first learned to it’s words. You’ll probably sing it a dozen times this year, at least, over cakes and cupcakes — in dining […]
That’s a little from the opening of the award-winning CD — Mr. Bach Comes to Call from “Classical Kids.”
You’re hearing a little from a recent and the first recording of a piano composition called the “Oliver Galop” that was written in 1861 by Thomas Wiggins when he was about twelve years old.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jazz.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/15/2001 Jazz Transcript Jazz is in the air this winter — on Ken Burns’ monumental PBS documentary, and in numerous new recordings that introduce this uniquely African-American and quintessentially American art form to children and young people. One place that your budding Ellington or […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Ella-Jenkins.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/5/2001 Ella Jenkins Transcript That’s the Chicago-based singer, Ella Jenkins with an African chant from her new CD from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. It’s called “Songs, Rhythms, and Chants for the Dance,” and on it, Ms. Jenkins blends a score of musical genres, from spirituals […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Black-History-Month.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/1/2001 Black History Month Transcript That’s Medicine Man Ya-Ya reciting the last part of Maulana Karenga’s Libation Statement that opens the CD, “Teach The Children,” a collection of songs and prose poems, that celebrates famous African American figures in our history. There’s Harriet Tubman, […]
You’re hearing one of the most maligned of instruments — the kazoo — being featured in that excerpt from Jim Queskin’s classic “Jug Band Music.”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/From-the-Top.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 1/18/2001 “From the Top” Transcript “From the Top” is a year old this month, and we should all be singing the praises of this amazing weekly radio program, heard on many public radio stations, that features the performances of young […]
That’s the late Bill Crofut, performing part of his wonderful alphabet song, “Alligator Hedgehog,” from this new CD that he finished just before he died, called “Dance on a Moonbeam.”
Does that song strike any familiar chords from your childhood? If you are of a certain age The Monkees were the rock band of your adolescence.