Birds and the Great Composers: How birdsong inspired the Great Composers and how they still inspire us today
Birds and the Great Composers: How birdsong inspired the Great Composers and how they still inspire us today
What bird inspired Beethoven’s 5th Symphony Da da da dum! ?
Which Benjamin Britten masterpiece required singers to sing like birds?
Discover The 14th century musical instrument invented to imitate birdsong
Listen to the tribe in Asia that can sing like birds.
And so much more…
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Mozart
Sextet for Strings & 2 Horns
Sparrow Mass “Spatzenmesse”, Kyrie
Horn Quintet E-flat major K.407 Cadence of a Starling
Beethoven
Sixth Symphony, “Pastoral”
Bach
Organ Trio Sonata, No.5 BWV 529, First Movement
Britten
Spring Symphony
Haydn
String Quartet in C Major “The Birds”
YouTube
Mongolian Throat Singers
Birdsong Opera
Forest Birdsong
Schubert’s Birds, Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Beatrice Harrison Feature Story, BBC
Mozart’s Starling, Lynda Lynn Haupt, Little, Brown Spark, New York, 2023