Bird Music

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This is the bird-bomb!

 

Olivier Messiaen: Catalogue d'Oiseaux

Pierre-Laurent Aimard

 

 

 

More? OK:

 

 

You can sample it on Spotify as well. Lots of positive reviews.

 

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8404435--messiaen-catalogue-doiseaux-books-1-7-complete

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Just found this playlist on Spotify: "Birdsong in Classical Music". Hope it is of some use:

 

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX13IHBurI057

 

Also found this much more selective list:

 

http://www.classical-music.com/article/six-best-pieces-music-inspired-birdsong

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1 hour ago, sphinxsix said:

Is it possible to upvote a post twice? BTW who are the Trashmen.?! Gotta google those guys!

 

"The Rivingtons followed up their 1962 Billboard Hot 100 hit "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" with the similar "The Bird's the Word" in 1963. The Trashmen had not heard this version but saw a band called the Sorensen Brothers playing it.[2] They decided to play the song that night at their own gig. During this first performance, drummer and vocalist Steve Wahrer stopped playing and ad-libbed the "Surfin' Bird" middle section.[2] Despite not knowing "The Bird's the Word" was a Rivingtons song, the similarity to "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" was obvious and the Trashmen added the chorus to the end of their new track.

A local disc jockey, Bill Diehl, was at the gig and convinced the band to record the track.[2] It was recorded at Kay Bank Studios in Minneapolis. Diehl entered it into a local battle of the bands competition and it won. It was then sent to a battle of the bands competition in Chicago where it also won.[2] This led to the group being signed to Garrett Records with the single being quickly released. It reportedly sold 30,000 copies in its first weekend[2] before going on to national success, reaching No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. Wahrer was originally credited as the song's writer, but that was changed to the Rivingtons (Al Frazier, Carl White, Sonny Harris, and Turner Wilson Jr.) after the group successfully sued the Trashmen for plagiarism."

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfin'_Bird

 

???

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17 hours ago, christopher3393 said:

 

 

 

14 hours ago, AudioDoctor said:

I am surprised this isn't here yet...

 

 

...it was hidden...so it became a blind test and you aced it.

 

 

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1 hour ago, sphinxsix said:

 

      Speaking of a blackbird. Strangely enough, the song comes from so-called 'White' album.

 

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"White Bird", It's a Beautiful Day

 

 

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Le chant des oiseaux - Clément Janequin (renaissance)

 

 

Bryd one brere ( Bird on a Bryre)· anon. (medieval English)

 

 

 

 

Bryd one brere, brid, brid one brere,
Kynd is come of love, love to crave
Blythful biryd, on me thu rewe
Or greyth, lef, greith thu me my grave.

Hic am so blithe, so bryhit, brid on brere,
Quan I se that hende in halle:
Yhe is whit of lime, loveli, trewe
Yhe is fayr and flur of alle.

Mikte ic hire at wille haven,
Stedefast of love, loveli, trewe,
Of mi sorwe yhe may me saven
Ioye and blisse were were me newe.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/mar/25/poem-of-the-week-bird-on-a-briar

 

https://earlymusicmuse.com/birdonabriar/

 

 

 

"La Rossignol" anon. instrumental (renaissance)

 

 

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A Guide to the Birdsong of South America

by Rhythm and Roots, various artists

 

 

https://rhythmandroots.bandcamp.com/album/a-guide-to-the-birdsong-of-south-america

 

 

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" Have you ever heard two turtle doves

  Bill and coo, when they love?"

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...low...hanging...fruit:

 

 

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Cuckoo time:

 

"Sumer Is Icumen In" (also called the Summer Canon and the Cuckoo Song) is a medieval English round or rota of the mid-13th century.

 

Svmer is icumen in
Lhude sing cuccu
Groweþ sed
and bloweþ med
and springþ þe wde nu
Sing cuccu

Awe bleteþ after lomb
lhouþ after calue cu
Bulluc sterteþ
bucke uerteþ
murie sing cuccu

Cuccu cuccu
Wel singes þu cuccu
ne swik þu nauer nu

Sing cuccu nu • Sing cuccu.
Sing cuccu • Sing cuccu nu

 

 

 

Cucú, cucú, cucúcu, cancionero (from Cancionero de Palacio)

Juan del Encina (1468 - 1529):

 

 

Pretty song? Here are the lyrics in English:

 

Coo-coo, coo-coo!
Make sure it's not you.

Mate you must know,
that the best of women,
is always crazy to screw,
tire out yours well.

Mate you must take care,
to never be cuckolded,
if your wife goes out to pee,
go out with her.

 

Here's a different rendition from Jordi Savall et al:

 

 

A little Shakespeare?

 

The Song

VER, THE SPRING

When daisies pied, and violets blue,

And lady-smocks all silver-white,

And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue

Do paint the meadows with delight,

The cuckoo then on every tree

Mocks married men; for thus sings he, “Cuckoo;

Cuckoo, cuckoo”—O word of fear,

Unpleasing to a married ear!

When shepherds pipe on oaten straws,

And merry larks are ploughmen’s clocks;

When turtles tread, and rooks and daws,

And maidens bleach their summer smocks,

The cuckoo then on every tree

Mocks married men; for thus sings he, “Cuckoo;

Cuckoo, cuckoo”—O word of fear,

Unpleasing to a married ear!

 

from Love's Labour Lost, Act5, Scene 2. Often sung in performance to a variety of melodies. Stravinsky made a song of it. It's awful.

 

So instead here is a modern piece you may recognize:

 

The Cuckoo Song - Dance of the Cuckoos - Al Bowlly and the Arthur Lally Orchestra

 

 

 

 

 

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An old song with a colorful history:

 

 

 

 

 

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Takemitsu: A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden

 

 

"This beautifully titled composition for orchestra was inspired by a dream in which the composer saw a flock of white birds, led by a single blackbird swirling around and then descending into a pentagonal or star-shaped garden. The garden, however, turned out to be the star on the back of artist Marcel Duchamp's head in the famous photograph by Man Ray."

 

https://www.allmusic.com/composition/a-flock-descends-into-the-pentagonal-garden-for-orchestra-mc0002372010

 

https://rhagye.com/2013/11/03/analysis-of-takemitsus-a-flock-descends-into-the-pentagonal-garden/

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36 minutes ago, sphinxsix said:

but this might be real fake news

 

Yes. I think you can count on it having more imagination than authenticity. Birdism is another matter  ?

 

accwai introduced me to Takemitsu, but it was the bird theme that sparked the interest.

 

Another bird piece by Takemitsu:

 

A Bird Came Down the Walk - Viola on Stage

Nobuko Imai (viola), Roland Pöntinen (piano)

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7922376--a-bird-came-down-the-walk-viola-on-stage

 

no youtube video of this particular performance, but available on Spotify

 

It is inspired by an Emily Dickinson poem of the same name:

 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56593/a-bird-came-down-the-walk-359

 

Nice article on this piece: https://juliemichael.weebly.com/uploads/9/0/1/4/90148655/zen_in_the_art_of_viola_playing_published_pdf.pdf

 

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The same piece with erhu substituted for violin. Not as polished, but interesting:

 

 

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Unfortunately, ALL of those Hotel Cal. videos read: 

"Video unavailable:

This video contains content from UMPG Publishing, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds"

 

So here are a couple of songs about eagles with a similar countryfolkrockbluegrass feeeel plus pedal steeel:

 

 

 

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Birds in Baroque Music

Dorothee Mields (soprano), Stefan Temmingh (recorder)

The Gentleman's Band, La Folia Barockorchester

 

 

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8084619--birds-in-baroque-music#reviews

 

 

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On 11/16/2018 at 5:14 PM, sphinxsix said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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uh-oh

"When it comes to chiding,

Cows go into hiding!"

 

 

Bye-Bye Birdie!

 

 

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13 hours ago, sphinxsix said:

 

It reminded me of the fact that Bird loved birds, chickens precisely. This was Charlie Parker's favorite food. Here is a story which seems to be an ultimate image of be bop hedonism described by Miles Davis in his autobiography:

 

Parker with Chan Robertson Parker and daughter Kim (ca. 1953).

 

 

 

hmmm... how to digest this conversational lubricant?

The modern migration of orgiastic ritual?

"Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken." (Isabelle Allende) ?

A meditation on aesthetics and disgust? https://www.academia.edu/9757376/Disgust_Oxford_Encyclopedia_of_Aesthetics_2nd_ed._

 

or...MORE CHICKEN!

 

 

 

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BIRDS OF A FEATHER | Official Music Video | Theme From “Chicken Girls”

 

 

RAINED ON ROOSTER from Slim Bawb and the Stumpgrinders