Bird Music

[Hugo9000]

Harrumph!  A thread about bird music, and no coloratura sopranos?! ?

  

A nightingale from Saint-Saëns:

 

 

A "sweet" bird from Handel:

 

 

A lark from Bishop:

 

 

There used to be a much better quality upload of this on youtube, but Roberta Peters is spectacular here:

 

 

[Hugo9000]

So, I was checking out a recording of Verdi's string quartet on Spotify, and what do I hear in the quiet passages?  Gorgeous birdsong!  Apparently, it was a live recording in some hydroelectric plant in Germany.  Sadly, I can't find it on youtube to share here.  The violinist on the Verdi quartet is the acclaimed Christian Tetzlaff.  I don't know what kind of bird is singing--a lark?  It's very beautiful, actually!  The human audience is amazingly quiet haha!

 

This is the CD:

 

 

 

 

P.S.  In the Graffman/Bernstein/NY Phil recording of the Rachmaninov 2nd piano concerto, there is a bird.  I don't recall which movement it appears in, but it's a welcome distraction from the noisy musicians shuffling their sheet music and scraping their chairs and whatever other odd things they were doing.  That recording is the reason I hate that orchestra haha!  The only orchestra I know of where a live audience isn't needed to provide coughing--the musicians provide it themselves in the studio.  No discipline whatsoever!

[Hugo9000]

On 11/7/2018 at 2:06 AM, AudioDoctor said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/11/04/turns-out-these-birds-create-songs-with-the-same-rules-humans-do-but-does-that-mean-theyre-musical/?utm_term=.a7fe0a16288b

 

Turns out I saw an article about Birds making music the other day, and have been reading about it.

So, did you read the study?  One of the authors is Emily Doolittle hahaha!  Dr. Doolittle is trying to talk to the animals!  (Do you imagine she's annoyed at people saying that by now?  Surely I'm not the only one making that lame amazing joke lol)  Pity that co-researcher Tecumseh Fitch's surname isn't Finch, however.  Well, perhaps the editor made a typo?

 

http://www.pnas.org/content/111/46/16616

[Hugo9000]

On 11/6/2018 at 10:41 PM, wgscott said:

 

I got this in 1982 from LL Bean when in college in Maine, on thick vinyl that easily scratches.

 

I finally broke down and got a digital copy as well.

 

Listening now, it's on Spotify!  Many thanks!

[Hugo9000]

Bird music begins around the 0:44 mark haha!  I'd forgotten this, it's been a long time since I last listened to this symphony!

 

 

[Hugo9000]

The reconnaissance mission of the parrot flock is potentially alarming.  They have noted that this thread makes repeated references to "bird song," while most examples are wordless, and thus not "song"--they may feel that this is discriminatory against them as the most famous group of birds actually capable of using human language and thus "song" in a human sense.  Now that they have found the originator of this thread, their next mission may well involve 'bombing' runs, so be alert.  On the other hand, ravens may be recruited as ninjas, so you'd never see them coming.  If you hear a cry of "nevermore," I'd suggest taking the warning seriously.