Curriculum Materials: World Mythology


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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 (Quicktime 3.0 or newer required)
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 (Quicktime 3.0 or newer required)
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 (Quicktime 3.0 or newer required)
told by Mattie Clark. Music from Passion Sources, Track #11: Fatala, "Yoky", Real World Records (with permission).

Story of Phaeton, 8:00 minute duration (Quicktime 3.0 or newer required)
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 (Quicktime 3.0 or newer required)
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 (Quicktime 3.0 or newer required)
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 (Quicktime 3.0 or newer required)
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 (Quicktime 3.0 or newer required)
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 (Quicktime 3.0 or newer required)
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)


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