The Music Of Wild Birds

Author : Lang Elliott
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618663989
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Songs of Wild Birds written by Lang Elliott and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Judy Pelikan
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 9781565122710
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Music of Wild Birds written by Judy Pelikan and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years ago, F. Schuyler Mathews, an erudite naturalist and birder, theorized that birds sing first for love of music, and second for love of the lady. To expand on his theory, he actually scored the songs of birds in the wild. His charming text and bird-by-bird annotations were compiled into a guide called Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music. This extraordinary work has now been lavishly illustrated and adapted for a new audience. Each bird is meticulously rendered by artist Judy Pelikan in full-color illustrations that feature not only the birds, but also their nests, eggs, and feathers. And every song is represented by its written musical score, which Mathews expertly explains in a way that both musicians and non-musicians can enjoy. As Mathews points out, the music of wild birds is everywhere--in poems, children's nursery songs, as well as in the works of the great composers: the Black-billed Cuckoo's call appears near the close of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony; the Nashville Warbler's song is found in the opening bars of Rossini's Carovale, and the Meadowlark's song is remarkably like the first two bars of Alfredo's song in La Traviata. He reveals how a bird's character is reflected in its song: the Baltimore Oriole is a sharp-billed, sharp-witted character, and his remarks are as incisive and crisp as the toots of a steam whistle. And he reminds us of the words of our great poets--Wordsworth, Emerson, Sir Walter Scott--and their descriptions of the very same birds and their music. This classic, useful, and completely original guide will put a song into the heart of novice and experienced birder alike.

Author : Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music written by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : F. Mathews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781557095183
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music written by F. Mathews and published by . This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music written by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A description of the character and music of birds, intended to assist in the identification of species common in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains.

Author : Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music written by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music written by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : F. Schuyler Mathews
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330318119
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music written by F. Schuyler Mathews and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music: A Description of the Character and Music of Birds, Intended to Assist in the Identification of Species Common in the United States East of the Rocky Mountains Hast thou a charm to stay the morning star In his steep course? So long he seems to pause On thy bald awful head, O sovran Blanc! The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, ... Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! .... ... sing ye meadow streams with gladsome voice! Ye pine groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! Samuel Taylor Coleridge. When in the lapse of a number of years an accumulation of knowledge and experience has enlarged or modified one's mental vision, it is well if the advance goes on record. Now, although my estimate of the character and significance of bird music has undergone little material change during a period of seventeen years, it has grown proportionately with those years, and I have added in this new edition the results of my latest study. It is not necessary to apologize for the insistence upon the value of musical notation expressed in my Introduction to Bird Music, there is no avoiding the facts stated therein, nor any cause to enlarge on them; but there is something to be added in relation to the musical scales of the birds, and in appreciation of the musical record and its popular as well as scientific usefulness. When one attains the commanding summit of a high mountain the horizon is greatly enlarged. If one remains in the valley and mountain walls shut one in on every side, the world indeed seems small. Coleridge soared upward like the lark when he wrote the lines quoted above. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music written by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music written by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: