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Author : Lang Elliott
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0618006974
Presents the songs and calls of more than seventy North American birds. Includes audio compact disc featuring songbird concerts and solos.
Author : Ana Gerhard,Cecilia Varela
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 2923163893
Provides an introduction to classical music, describing how birds have inspired composers throughout history, and includes a musical glossary and short biographies of the composers.
Author : Lang Elliott,Marie Read
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0395912385
Presents the songs and calls of fifty North American birds that are common to residential settings, city parks, and urban areas.
Author : Elizabeth Eva Leach
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501727573
Is birdsong music? The most frequent answer to this question in the Middle Ages was resoundingly "no." In Sung Birds, Elizabeth Eva Leach traces postmedieval uses of birdsong within Western musical culture. She first explains why such melodious sound was not music for medieval thinkers and then goes on to consider the ontology of music, the significance of comparisons between singers and birds, and the relationship between art and nature as enacted by the musical performance of late-medieval poetry. If birdsong was not music, how should we interpret the musical depiction of birdsong in human music-making? What does it tell us about the singers, their listeners, and the moral status of secular polyphony? Why was it the fourteenth century that saw the beginnings of this practice, continued to this day in the music of Messiaen and others?Leach explores medieval arguments about song, language, and rationality whose basic terms survive undiminished into the present. She considers not only lyrics that have their singers voice the songs or speech of birds but also those that represent other natural, nonmusical, sounds such as human cries or the barks of dogs. The dangerous sweetness of birdsong was invoked in discussions of musical ethics, which, because of the potential slippage between irrational beast and less rational woman in comparisons with rational human masculinity, depict women's singing as less than fully human. Leach's argument comes full circle with the advent of sound recording. This technological revolution-like its medieval equivalent, the invention of the music book-once again made the relationship between music and nature an acute preoccupation of Western culture.
Author : Peter R. Marler,Hans Slabbekoorn
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0080473555
The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination. Nature’s Music brings together some of the world’s experts on birdsong, to review the advances that have taken place in our understanding of how and why birds sing, what their songs and calls mean, and how they have evolved. All contributors have strived to speak, not only to fellow experts, but also to the general reader. The result is a book of readable science, richly illustrated with recordings and pictures of the sounds of birds. Bird song is much more than just one behaviour of a single, particular group of organisms. It is a model for the study of a wide variety of animal behaviour systems, ecological, evolutionary and neurobiological. Bird song sits at the intersection of breeding, social and cognitive behaviour and ecology. As such interest in this book will extend far beyond the purely ornithological - to behavioural ecologists psychologists and neurobiologists of all kinds. * The scoop on local dialects in birdsong * How birdsongs are used for fighting and flirting * The writers are all international authorities on their subject
Author : David Rothenberg
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0465071368
The astonishing richness of birdsong is both an aesthetic and a scientific mystery. Evolutionists have never been able to completely explain why birdsong is so inventive and why many species devote so many hours to singing. The standard explanations of defending territories and attracting mates don't begin to account for the variety and energy that the commonest birds exhibit. Is it possible that birds sing because they like to? This seemingly naive explanation is starting to look more and more like the truth. Why Birds Sing is a lyric exploration of birdsong that blends the latest scientific research with a deep understanding of musical beauty and form. Drawing on conversations with neuroscientists, ecologists, and composers, it is the first book to investigate the elusive question of why birds sing and what their song means to both avian and human ears. Whether playing his clarinet with the whitecrested laughing thrush in Pittsburgh, or jamming in the Australian winter breeding grounds of the Albert's lyrebird, Rothenberg immerses himself in the heart and soul of birdsong. He approaches the subject as a naturalist, philosopher, musician, and investigator. An intimate look at the mostlovely of natural phenomena, Why Birds Sing is a beautifully written exploration of a phenomenon that's at once familiar and profoundly alien.
Author : Lang Elliott
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0618663983
Describes the bird calls and songs of North American birds, including a sonagram that give a visual representation of the sounds, and provides recorded examples of the songs mentioned.
Author : Les Beletsky
Publisher : becker&mayer! Books
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780760363263
In Bird Songs, ornithologist Les Beletsky profiles 250 birds alongside colorful illustrations, and includes a digital audio player that provides the corresponding song for each of the 250 birds. Drawing from the collection of the world-renowned Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Bird Songs presents the most notable North American birds—including the rediscovered ivory-billed woodpecker—in a stunning format. Renowned ornithologist Les Beletsky provides a succinct description of each of the 250 birds profiled, with an emphasis on their distinctive songs. Lavish full-color illustrations accompany each account, while a sleek, built-in digital audio player holds 250 corresponding songs and calls. In his foreword, North American bird expert and distinguished natural historian Jon L. Dunn shares insights gained from a lifetime of passionate study. Complete with the most up-to-date and scientifically accurate information, Bird Songs is the first book to capture the enchantment of these beautiful birds in words, pictures, and song.
Author : Rachel Mundy
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780819578082
Over the past century and a half, the voices and bodies of animals have been used by scientists and music experts as a benchmark for measures of natural difference. Animal Musicalities traces music’s taxonomies from Darwin to digital bird guides to show how animal song has become the starting point for enduring evaluations of species, races, and cultures. By examining the influential efforts made by a small group of men and women to define human diversity in relation to animal voices, this book raises profound questions about the creation of modern human identity, and the foundations of modern humanism.
Author : Bob Marley,Cedella Marley
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781452119830
Bob Marley's songs are known the world over for their powerful message of love, peace, and harmony. Now a whole new generation can discover one of his most joyous songs in this reassuring picture book adaptation written by his daughter Cedella and exuberantly illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton. This upbeat story reminds children that the sun will always come out after the rain and mistakes are easily forgiven with a hug. Every family will relate to this universal story of one boy who won't let anything get him down, as long as he has the help of three very special little birds. Including all the lyrics of the original song plus new verses, this cheerful book will bring a smile to faces of all ages—because every little thing's gonna be all right!
Author : F. Mathews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1557095183
In this beautifully written and well-illustrated guide to birds' songs from 1904, Mathews describes 127 bird species, mostly of Eastern United States, and their songs. This fieldbook contains descriptions of the physical characteristics and habits of each, as well as detailed comments on their songs and calls. He includes musical scores of at least two songs for each species.
Author : Tim Low
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780300226805
An authoritative and entertaining exploration of Australia’s distinctive birds and their unheralded role in global evolution Renowned for its gallery of unusual mammals, Australia is also a land of extraordinary birds. But unlike the mammals, the birds of Australia flew beyond the continent’s boundaries and around the globe many millions of years ago. This eye-opening book tells the dynamic but little-known story of how Australia provided the world with songbirds and parrots, among other bird groups, why Australian birds wield surprising ecological power, how Australia became a major evolutionary center, and why scientific biases have hindered recognition of these discoveries. From violent, swooping magpies to tool-making cockatoos, Australia’s birds are strikingly different from birds of other lands—often more intelligent and aggressive, often larger and longer-lived. Tim Low, a renowned biologist with a rare storytelling gift, here presents the amazing evolutionary history of Australia’s birds. The story of the birds, it turns out, is inseparable from the story of the continent itself and also the people who inhabit it.
Author : Andrea Pinnington,Caz Buckingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0228100313
"A delightful board book introducing 12 of the most common woodland birds complete with high-quality sound bar, which conforms to regional safety standards. There are general introductions to the birds plus data profiles, fascinating facts and beautiful photographs. Its sturdy board book format makes it suitable for children aged 3 and upwards but it is actually something for the whole family to treasure and enjoy."--
Author : David Evans,Winnie Holzman
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Actors
ISBN : 9780573681899
The Harbour Island Players is an amateur theatre group whose lives are turned upside down when Lawrence Wood (a down-on-his-luck professional actor) come home for a visit. Homer, a young writer/composer has written a bizarre musical adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, and Wood offers to direct and star.
Author : Donald Kroodsma
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781328919113
Birdsong made easy to understand, lavishly illustrated with color photos, and accompanied by more than 700 online recordings From a leading expert, Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist is a basic, how-to guide that teaches anyone--from beginner to advanced birder--how to listen. In understandable and appealing language, Kroodsma explains why and how birds sing, what various calls mean, and what to listen for from the birds around us. The descriptions are accompanied by color photos of the birds, as well as QR codes that link to an online collection of more than 700 recordings. With these resources, readers are prepared to recognize bird sounds and the birds that make them. Kroodsma encourages readers to find the joy of birdsong and curiosity--to observe, listen intently, be curious, ask questions, and realize that many unanswered questions about birdsong don't have to rely on scientists for answers but can be answered by any curious naturalist.