Many musical works have paid homage to bird songs, including The Goldfinch by Vivaldi, The Hen by Rameau , The Cuckoo and the Nightingale by Handel, and Cirrus Minor by Pink Floyd. It was, of course, Father Kircher who pioneered the musical transcription of bird vocalizations in his Musurgia Universalis. But nobody, to our knowledge, went to greater lengths to notate avian music than the early 20th-century naturalist F. Schuyler Mathews. More.
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
The music of birds
Many musical works have paid homage to bird songs, including The Goldfinch by Vivaldi, The Hen by Rameau , The Cuckoo and the Nightingale by Handel, and Cirrus Minor by Pink Floyd. It was, of course, Father Kircher who pioneered the musical transcription of bird vocalizations in his Musurgia Universalis. But nobody, to our knowledge, went to greater lengths to notate avian music than the early 20th-century naturalist F. Schuyler Mathews. More.
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