western music

Garth and Rose Bibby were a ranching couple admired for their creative cowboy poetry and their devotion to each other and ranch life.  Garth rode across the great divide in January and this week you’ll hear highlights from some of their visits on the SPIRIT OF THE WEST. Their captivating stories and poems will keep you listening closely. There’s some great new songs of the west, as well as the classics the round out this nostalgic ride.

A fine cowboy, roper, guide outfitter and legendary bush pilot Bob Kjos (Joes) rode over the great divide in 2021.  He left us with a terrific book about his life called “Horse shoes in My Hip Pocket, and this week you’ll hear some of his amazing adventures with horses, cattle and airplanes.  A song that influenced a young farm boy to follow cowboy life along with some great poetry will keep your attention along with horse training help and the Rangeland News

This ride covers a lot of ground. The Voice of the Chuckwagons Les McInyre is back with more stories from the behind the chutes.  An Arizona cowboy recalls a fateful morning on a green horse riding through the thorns, and Wylie Gustaffson has the story of how he had to buy an old pick up to get to an important show with his band, and this week you'll hear the latest on the 2025 Spirit of the West Cruise.

Fletcher Jowers shares a lot of his experiences with some of the state's biggest outfits. out with the wagon, sleeping under the stars and singing his own unique cowboy songs around the  Campfire.  The Rangeland News has good news for cow calf operators, and the Irvine Saddles and Western Wear Horse Training File explains how some riders have gotten into a dangerous situation by doing something most working cowboys will avoid.

The beloved Oklahoma Balladeer Les Gilliam passed away in November. This week Hugh brings back some of the great stories he told about growing up next to Gene Autry's ranch in Oklahoma and many stars and celebrities he performed with over the years. You'll hear some of the memorable western songs he wrote and sung.  There's practical horse training advice, rangeland News, and some hints about the 2025 Spirit of the West cruise.

This month on Humanities Matter, we talk about Music! 

We wonder why apocalyptic soundtracks have captivated people since Medieval times, we re-discover the beauty and cultural significance of court music, and we explore the ways in which music brings stories to life in Western radio drama.

All this featuring the co-editors of Brill’s Music in the Apocalyptic Mode and Word, Sound and Music in Radio Drama, and author of Mutʿat al-asmāʿ fīʿilm al-samāʿ, The Ears’ Pleasure and the Science of Listening to Music by Aḥmad b. Yūsuf al-Tīfāshī al-Qafṣī. 

Liked this podcast? Have thoughts on the topic? Want us to address a specific theme in the future? Write to us at podcast@brill.com.

Host: Ramzi Nasir
Guests: Colin McAllister, George Dimitri Sawa, Jarmila Mildorf

It seems we’re back in that strange space in time where there are days that can 70 degrees and sunny and beautiful. The birds are singing and the blossoms on trees are beginning to light up the branches like a holy and natural Christmas lights… and then the next day we’re right back into the holds of a winter that every year seems to overstay its welcome. You get a taste of that warmth in your bones, and it’s just enough to whet your appetite for all the things that feel so far away… long walks outside, swimming, afternoons on restaurant patios with friends… and the sun not setting at 4:30 pm. 

It's like a brief kind of nostalgia. We know that these things were within our grasp just few months ago but a few months darkness is enough to make it feel like it’s been that much longer. And it’s in this liminal space, it’s nice to reflect on some of the things that reminds of these warmer points in time.

Its in the sunshine and humid air of the summer of 2022 that we sat down with John R. Miller and Chloe Edmonstone. John is a singer-songwriter and West Virginia native, orginally from the Shenandoah Valley. A long-time songsmith, Miller has been running in the Appalachian circuit for a few years before settling in Nashville. His first studio album “Depreciated” was released in July of 2021. Miller’s songwriting style is as natural as flowing river and and is backed by voice that has a crackling warmth to it. It is friendly and picturesque, even in his darker moments across the album. Backed by harmonies and almost familial sounding fiddle playing by Chloe Edmonstone (who was a founding member of the group Locust honey)- the album is all parts familiar and strange. 

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सुनिए रियो फर्नांडीस के जीवन की प्रेरक कहानी। ये एक म्यूजिशियन, टीचर, कंपोजर और म्यूजिक के प्रोड्यूसर हैं। आपको बतादें रियो का जन्म और पालन-पोषण दक्षिण गोवा के रिया में हुआ था। और बहुत छोटी उम्र से म्यूजिक में अपनी दिलचस्पी दिखाने लगे थे। इन्होंने दो साल वायलिन सीखा। अपनी शिक्षा के साथ-साथ संगीत को भी अपनाया और ट्रिनिटी कॉलेज ऑफ म्यूजिक, लंदन से ग्रेजुएशन की। इन्होंने म्यूजिक में बैचलर डिग्री ली और इस तरह म्यूजिक में अपने सफर को जारी रखते हुए इसी में अपना करियर बना लिया। वर्तमान में ये भोपाल में अपना सोलफेगियो म्यूजिक इंस्टीट्यूट चला रहे है। ये इंडियन और वेस्टर्न क्लासिकल म्यूजिक सिखाते हैं और स्टीरियो प्रोडक्शंस के बैनर तले म्यूजिक प्रोड्यूस भी करते हैं। ये मानते है कि हर कोई यदि अपने लक्ष्य को हासिल करने के लिए कड़ी मेहनत करें। तो उसे सफलता अवश्य मिलती है। इन्होंने भी कड़ी मेहनत करते हुए अपनी प्रतिभा के दम आज संगीत के क्षेत्र में एक सफल मुकाम पाया है और कई युवाओं के प्रेरणा स्त्रोत बने है। पूरी कहानी पढ़ें https://stories.workmob.com/rio-fernandes-music-dance-academies 

वर्कमोब द्वारा #मेरीकहानी कार्यक्रम के माध्यम से एक नयी पहल शुरू की गयी है जिसके ज़रिये हर कोई छोटे बड़े बिज़नेस ओनर्स अपनी प्रेरक कहानियों को यहाँ सभी के साथ साझा कर सकते है। क्योंकि हर शख्स की कहानी में है वो बात जो जीवन को बदलकर एक नयी दिशा दिखाएगी, और ज़िन्दगी में ले आएगी आशा की एक नयी चमकती किरण। #बनाओअपनीपहचान #प्रेरककहानियाँ #रियोफर्नांडीस #म्यूजिशियन #टीचर #कंपोजर #म्यूजिक #वायलिन #संगीत #सोलफेगियोम्यूजिकइंस्टीट्यूट #क्लासिकलम्यूजिक 

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Math and music share their mystery and magic. Three notes, played together, make a chord whose properties could not be predicted from those of the separate notes. In the West, music theory and mathematics have common origins and a rich history of shaping and informing one another’s field of inquiry. And, curiously, Western composition has evolved over several hundred years in much the same way economies and agents in long-running simulations have: becoming measurably more complex; encoding more and more environmental structure. (But then, sometimes collapses happen, and everything gets simpler.) Music theorists, like the alchemists that came before them, are engaged in a centuries-long project of deciphering the invisible geometry of these relationships. What is the hidden grammar that connects The Beatles to Johann Sebastian Bach — and how similar is it to the hidden order disclosed by complex systems science? In other words, what makes for “good” music, and what does it have to do with the coherence of the natural world?

Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we’ll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.

This week on the show, we speak with mathematician and composer Dmitri Tymozcko at Princeton University, whose work provides a new rigor to the study of the Western canon and illuminates “the shape of music” — a hyperspatial object from which all works of baroque, classical, romantic, modern, jazz, and pop are all low-dimensional projections. In the first conversation for this podcast with MIDI keyboard accompaniment, we follow upon Gottfried Leibniz’s assertion that music is “the unconscious exercise of our mathematical powers.” We explore how melodies and harmonies move through mathematical space in ways quite like the metamorphoses of living systems as they traverse evolutionary fitness landscapes. We examine the application of information theory to chord categorization and functional harmony. And we ask about the nature of randomness, the roles of parsimony and consilience in both art and life.

If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us — at santafe.edu/engage. You can find the complete show notes for every episode, with transcripts and links to cited works, at complexity.simplecast.com.

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Mentions and additional resources:

All of Tymoczko’s writings mentioned in this conversation can be found on his Princeton.edu website

You can explore his interactive music software at MadMusicalScience.com

The Geometry of Musical Chords
by Dmitri Tymoczko

An Information Theoretic Approach to Chord Categorization and Functional Harmony
by Nori Jacoby, Naftali Tishby and Dmitri Tymoczko

This Mathematical Song of the Emotions
by Dmitri Tymoczko

The Sound of Philosophy
by Dmitri Tymoczko

Select Tymoczko Video Lectures:
Spacious Spatiality (SEMF) 2022
The Quadruple Hierarchy
The Shape of Music (2014)

On the 2020 SFI Music & Complexity Working Group (with a link to the entire video playlist of public presentations).

On the 2022 SFI Music & Complexity Working Group

Foundations and Applications of Humanities Analytics Institute at SFI

Short explainer animation on SFI Professor Sidney Redner’s work on “Sleeping Beauties of Science”

The evolution of syntactic communication
by Martin Nowak, Joshua Plotkin, Vincent Jansen

The Majesty of Music and Math (PBS special with SFI’s Cris Moore)

The physical limits of communication
by Michael Lachmann, Mark Newman, Cristopher Moore

Supertheories and Consilience from Alchemy to Electromagnetism
SFI Seminar by Simon DeDeo

Will brains or algorithms rule the kingdom of science?
by David Krakauer at Aeon Magazine

Scaling, Mirror Symmetries and Musical Consonances Among the Distances of the Planets of the Solar System
by Michael Bank and Nicola Scafetta

“The reward system for people who do a really wonderful job of extracting knowledge and understanding and wisdom…is skewed in the wrong way. If left to the so-called free market, it’s mainly skewed toward entertainment or something that’s narrowly utilitarian for some business firm or set of business firms.”
– Murray Gell-Mann, A Crude Look at The Whole Part 180/200 (1997)

Related Episodes:

Complexity 81 - C. Brandon Ogbunu on Epistasis & The Primacy of Context in Complex Systems
Complexity 72 - Simon DeDeo on Good Explanations & Diseases of Epistemology
Complexity 70 - Lauren F. Klein on Data Feminism: Surfacing Invisible Labor
Complexity 67 - Tyler Marghetis on Breakdowns & Breakthroughs: Critical Transitions in Jazz & Mathematics
Complexity 46 - Helena Miton on Cultural Evolution in Music and Writing Systems
Complexity 29 - On Coronavirus, Crisis, and Creative Opportunity with David Krakauer

Description
Flutes come in all shapes and sizes. But each one was created with a specific purpose in mind and marks a period in musical history. In Western music history, certain well-known composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, and Stravinsky utilized different flutes in their pieces, thus paving the way for future works. Join me, as we take a minute to get the scoop!

Fun Fact
There are several means by which flautists breathe to blow air through the instrument and produce sound. They include diaphragmatic breathing and circular breathing. Circular breathing is quite difficult and can take performers years to master. It is a technique where players produce a continuous tone without interruption. It is accomplished by breathing in through the nose while simultaneously pushing air out through the mouth using air stored in the cheeks.

About Steven
Steven is a Canadian composer living in Toronto. He creates a range of works, with an emphasis on the short-form genre—his muse being to offer the listener both the darker and more satiric shades of human existence. If you're interested, please check out his website for more.

A Note To Music Students et al.
All recordings and sheet music are available on my site. I encourage you to take a look and play through some. Give me a shout if you have any questions.

Got a topic? Pop me off an email at: TCMMPodcast@Gmail.com 

सुनिए शिल्पा अनंत की प्रेरणादायक कहानी। दोस्तों ये एक गायिका, गीतकार, संगीत कलाकार और शिक्षिका हैं। केरल में जन्मी और दुबई में पली-बढ़ीशिल्पा ने हाई स्कूल की पढ़ाई पूरी करने के बाद अपनी कॉलेज की शिक्षा बैंगलोर से की और मीडिया कम्युनिकेशन और साइकोलॉजी में डिग्री ली। शिल्पा की संगीत की अपनी अनूठी शैली है जो भारतीय और पश्चिमी संगीत का मिश्रण है। उनका सगीतमयी सफर काफी अच्छा रहा है। 2011 में ये एक प्रतिष्ठित बर्कले कॉलेज ऑफ़ म्यूज़िक में संगीत सीखने के लिए अमेरिका चली गईं जहाँ से इन्होने स्नातक किया। पिछले छह सालो से ये न्यूयॉर्क सिटी में रह रही है। इन्होंने अभी कई लाइव परफॉरमेंस दी है। ए.आर. रहमान के साथ भी परफॉर्म कर चुकी है। संगीत के क्षेत्र में अपनी एक अनूठी पहचान बनाने के लक्ष्य के साथ ये निरन्तर आगे बढ़ रही है। पूरी कहानी पढ़ें: https://stories.workmob.com/shilpa-ananth-arts-entertainment

वर्कमोब द्वारा #मेरीकहानी कार्यक्रम के माध्यम से एक नयी पहल शुरू की गयी है जिसके ज़रिये हर कोई छोटे बड़े बिज़नेस ओनर्स अपनी प्रेरक कहानियों को यहाँ सभी के साथ साझा कर सकते है। क्योंकि हर शख्स की कहानी में है वो बात जो जीवन को बदलकर एक नयी दिशा दिखाएगी, और ज़िन्दगी में ले आएगी आशा की एक नयी चमकती किरण। #प्रेरककहानियाँ #गायिका #गीतकार #संगीतकलाकार #शिक्षिका #भारतीयसंगीत #पश्चिमीसंगीत #बर्कलेकॉलेजऑफ़म्यूज़िक

जानिए वर्कमोब के बारे में: जुड़िये वर्कमोब पर - ये है भारत का अपना एक प्रोफेशनल सोशल नेटवर्क। जोश और जुनून से भरी प्रेरणादायक कहानियां देखिये। मजेदार प्रतियोगिताएं खेलिए, उनका हिस्सा बने, लाइव जुड़िये, और भी बहुत कुछ पाए वर्कमोब पर । यह सौ प्रतिशत बिलकुल मुफ्त है। जाइये इस लिंक पर - https://stories.workmob.com और देखें ढेर सारी प्रेरक कहानियाँ। 

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दोस्तों सुनिए राघव सच्चर की कहानी। जो आज अपने हुनर और अपने टैलेंट से ना सिर्फ इंडिया बल्कि विदेशों में भी अपनी एक पहचान कायम कर चुके है। दोस्तों आपको बतादें कोलकाता में संगीत प्रेमियों के परिवार में जन्मे राघव की बचपन से ही संगीत में रुचि थी। सिर्फ 4 साल की उम्र में अपना पहला इंस्ट्रूमेंट हारमोनिका बजाना शुरू कर दिया था। तब से हर साल इनके माता-पिता इन्हें इनके जन्मदिन पर म्यूजिकल इंस्ट्रूमेंट ही गिफ्ट करते थे। राघव ने बर्कली कॉलेज ऑफ म्यूजिक, बोस्टन और ट्रिनिटी कॉलेज ऑफ लंदन से भी एफिलिएटेड कोर्स किया वही मोनाश युनिवर्सिटी ऑस्ट्रेलिया से म्यूजिक में बैचलर डिग्री पूरी की। और फिर म्यूजिक इंडस्ट्री में इनका सफर आगे बढ़ता रहा और इनका करियर ऊंचाइयों को छूता गया। इन्होने ए.आर रहमान, विशाल शेखर, शंकर एहसान लॉय, सलीम सुलैमान, अनु मालिक एंड प्रीतम जैसे कई बड़े म्यूजिक डायरेक्टर के साथ काम किया है। वही अपने लेबल "राघव सच्चर म्यूजिक" के साथ इन्होने कई सारी म्यूजिक एल्बम भी रिलीज़ की है। दोस्तों आज ये एक फेमस सिंगर, सांग राइटर, म्यूजिक कंपोजर, इंस्ट्रूमेंटलिस्ट एंड म्यूजिशियन है।

वर्कमोब द्वारा #मेरीकहानी कार्यक्रम के माध्यम से एक नयी पहल शुरू की गयी है जिसके ज़रिये हर कोई छोटे बड़े बिज़नेस ओनर्स अपनी प्रेरक कहानियों को यहाँ सभी के साथ साझा कर सकते है। क्योंकि हर शख्स की कहानी में है वो बात जो जीवन को बदलकर एक नयी दिशा दिखाएगी, और ज़िन्दगी में ले आएगी आशा की एक नयी चमकती किरण। #प्रेरककहानियाँ #टैलेंट #बर्कलीकॉलेजऑफम्यूजिक #म्यूजिकडायरेक्टर #राघवसच्चरम्यूजिक #म्यूजिककंपोजर #इंस्ट्रूमेंटलिस्ट #म्यूजिशियन #फेमससिंगर #सांगराइटर 

जानिए वर्कमोब के बारे में: जुड़िये वर्कमोब पर - ये है भारत का अपना एक प्रोफेशनल सोशल नेटवर्क। जोश और जुनून से भरी प्रेरणादायक कहानियां देखिये। मजेदार प्रतियोगिताएं खेलिए, उनका हिस्सा बने, लाइव जुड़िये, और भी बहुत कुछ पाए वर्कमोब पर । यह सौ प्रतिशत बिलकुल मुफ्त है। जाइये इस लिंक पर - https://stories.workmob.com और देखें ढेर सारी प्रेरक कहानियाँ। 

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Description
In this minute of classical music history, I’ll delve into the life of Hildegard of Bingen who was, among other things, one of the first identifiable composers—dating back over 800 years to the early medieval period.

Fun Fact
A character of the same name, Hildegard, was created for the Netflix series “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”. Although Hildegard is mentioned in a long list of witches throughout history, there's no evidence she actually had any magical powers.

About Steven
Steven is a Canadian composer living in Toronto. He creates a range of works, with an emphasis on the short-form genre—his muse being to offer the listener both the darker and more satiric shades of human existence. If you're interested, please check out his website for more.

A Note To Music Students et al.
All recordings and sheet music are available on my site. I encourage you to take a look and play through some. Give me a shout if you have any questions.

Got a topic? Pop me off an email at: TCMMPodcast@Gmail.com 

Dan Canyon and The Plainsmen, a cowboy-western band is featured on Mule Talk! Dan Canyon is a musician, songwriter, and producer from the state of Washington.

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Cowboy recording artist Joe Walus from Wisconson updates us on his travels, his recordings and his cowboy humor. This episode of Mule Talk has been brought to you by WarPony Productions. www.thewarpony.com 

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Cowboy recording artist, Joe Walus has written several cowboy songs and performs western music. He is known as Bunkhouse Joe on YouTube; he has several CDs out. To order his CD's - email Joe Walus at horsey3@bayland.net  Joe is also found on Facebook. 

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Host Luanne Hunt interviews Roy "Dusty" Rogers Jr., lead singer of the Sons of the Pioneers, the western singing group co-founded by his father Roy Rogers 84 years ago.