[Award-winning int'l famous 1997 essay -- full text on-line -- "Neanderthal
flute -- Oldest Known Instrument," plus on-going full verbatim debate
& correspondence from leading academics.]
Plus
5 webpages of correspondence & debate on Neanderthal Flute:
Fink published his now-famous essay in Spring, 1997, showing the notes
of the oldest musical instrument known (43,ooo years old) were capable
of matching part of the do, re, mi scale: See Neanderthal Flute: http://www.greenwych.ca/fl-compl.htm.
This website has won awards, including as one of the "most educational
sites on the Internet," and gets from 6,ooo-8,ooo visits/month.
THE ORIGIN OF MUSIC -- (3 editions)
This work was recognized as very useful by Dr. Anne Draffkorn Kilmer,
chair of Assyriology at the University of Calfornia at Berkeley, and who
deciphered the oldest song known in the world (4,ooo years old). Kilmer
visited Fink some years back and they continue to correspond regularly
on ethnomusicological issues. Fink's book on music's origins remains the
only full-length and conclusive work on the subject (to our best knowledge),
receiving consistently excellent reviews. (For libraries only) -- NOTE:
There is a shorter version [The
Origin of Music -- An Essay] fully outlining the same material
and analyses, available to the public.)
ON THE ORIGINS OF MUSIC -- Essays &
Readings (2003-4)
This work combines in one book
the main essays and archaeological material sinmce 1950 that turns the
theories into clear and likely conclusions on the stages of the evolution
of music.
SOME NEW 'OLDE-MUSICKE' --
(New compositions in baroque/classical styles)
Sheetmusic & MIDIs
-- Well-reviewed. Fink was also among the first to write a computer
program that could compose melodies by itself (nominated by the editorial
board of Discover magazine for its 1996 awards competition).
LYSISTRATA & THE WAR -- (An
opera in the style of
Mozart).
Written, as a protest to the Vietnam war, was to be performed at Wayne
State University in 1968 (from which Fink has his degree in musicology
and the sciences [incl. anthropology]). Fink has also been a lifetime leading
activist in the causes of peace and human rights, initial chairman and
an organizer in the student anti-war takeover of Wayne State University
in 1970 (following news of the murders of 4 Kent State University students
by the National Guard); He has won a number of landmark free-speech cases
(one cited in the recent (1993)
Canadian Supreme Court ruling upholding the issue of postering rights).
He was a columnist for years in his city's daily and weekly newspapers
on social issues (poverty, ecology, minorities, discrimination and the
arts). More at Wikipedia: Bob
Fink wiki bio
.
ALSO: Numerous articles
on musicology, including in the scholarly journal Archeologia Musicalis
published from West Germany in 3 languages, and in the 2003-4 Book from
the "Archaeology of Sound " conference in Germany in September,
2000: Studies in Music
Archaeology III,and is cited in the 2000 book-anthology, Origins
of Music, published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Fink has served as a juror regarding ancient music for the Journal
Nature.
Fink has also given several concerts of his music in Detroit, New York,
and elsewhere. His music has been broadcast on TV and radio and by his
local University and some was re-published in a local anthology of composers.
Many of his compositions have been published by Greenwich
Publishing. His lecture on music's origins was sponsored by his
City's Public Library and his writings have been used in some university
courses.
