The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Main Museum Menu ~ Educational Programs ~ Curriculum Materials ~ Teaching the Arts Catalog
Curriculum Materials:World Mythology
World Mythology Audio Files
The following are links to audio recordings of world mythology stories. These
recordings are also available on the audio cassette tape that accompanies the
World Mythology in Art slide set.
Story of Osiris, 4:35 minute duration (1.0 MB AIFF)
told by Solveig Beckmen. Music from Passion Sources, Track #3: Shankar and the Epidemics, "Sankarabanam Pancha Nadai Pallavi", Real World Records (with permission).
Story of Isis, 5:45 minute duration (1.2 MB AIFF)
told by Solveig Beckmen. Music from Passion Sources, Track #14: Antranik Askarian and Khatchadour Khatchaturian, "Song of Complaint", Real World Records (with permission).
Story of Ezomo Ehenua and Iyase n'Ode, 3:30 minute duration (764K AIFF)
told by Mattie Clark. Music from Passion Sources, Track #11: Fatala, "Yoky", Real World Records (with permission).
Story of Phaeton, 8:00 minute duration (1.8 MB AIFF)
told by Carol McCormick. Music from Henry Purcell, Airs & Instrumental Music, Track #4: "Three parts upon a ground", BMG Music (with permission).
Story of Orpheus and Eurydice, 10:21 minute duration (2.4 MB AIFF)
told by Maren Hinderlie. Music from Dawn to Dusk, David Whetstone and Marcus Wise, Side A: "Rag Ahir Bhairav/Rag Yamani", Ally Press and Nineties Press (with permission).
Story of Nebuchadnezzar, 2:45 minute duration (592K AIFF)
told by Julie Kahlo. Music from Memory of the Peoples, Track #1: Jean Blanchard and Eric Montbel, "Briolage" Ó(France), UNESCO Collection (with permission).
Lakota story of the re-creation of the
earth, 5:00 minute duration (1.1 MB AIFF)
told by Nan Montgomery.Music from Music from Spirit Journey, Cornel Pewewardy, Track #6: "Spirit Journey", Tom Bee
Production, The Soar Corporation (with permission).
Story of Tsenabonpil and Luana the wild
pig, 4:50 minute duration (1.1 MB AIFF)
told by Nan Montgomery. Music from Gabon, Musique des Pygmées Bibayak, Chantres de l'epopée, Track #4: "Sequence
polyphoniques", Corcora, Radio France (with permission).
Shoki, the demon queller, 4:00 minute duration (872K AIFF)
told by Sarah Meybaum. Music from Japanese Shakuhacki Music, Track #2: "Distant Cry of Deer", Fortune CD #17067-2(with permission).
World Mythology Slide Set and Slide Player
Following are links to the QuickSlide set containing all of the World Mythology in Art images and to a Beta version of the QuickSlide B2.0 Slide Player application you can use to organize and present a full-screen "slide" presentation.
World Mythology in Art QuickSlide Set and QuickSlide Player B2.0, (1,380K Macintosh version)
QuickSlide B2.0 Slide Player Only (470K Macintosh version)
Contact Scott Sayre for more information on custom slide set development and operation of the shareware QuickSlide Player. Documentation and Player/Recorder version to be published soon.
Main Museum Menu ~ Educational Programs ~ Curriculum Materials ~ Teaching the Arts Catalog