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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In Darwinian terms an individual bird’s song an expression of intraspecific competition for territory and mating b the enquiries set out here enter different terrain. Do birds have a sere themselves as individuals through their song: has each species develop its own culture; and can we say that birdsong is music? As natural history sound recordist Geoff Sample says the question is birdsong music? … is almost impossible to answer-but what is staring- in-the-face remarkable is that so many musical figures are shared between our music in a traditional sense fle not including what might be more accurately described as sound art) and birdsong. For instance consider how many birdsongs and calls use note intervals that strike us as melodic particularly the major and minor third and the slides between (blue notes). Many of these essays explore what Sample says ‘might be called the qu symphonic aspects of a dawn chorus an extraordinary natural phenomenar when in the thin air of early spring mornings birds sing together The book also serves as a corrective of sorts. In Silent Springval Rachel Carson talked presciently about how early mornings were becoming …strangely silent where they were once filled with the beauty of birdsong. This sudden silencing of the song of birds this obliteration of the colour and beauty and interest they lend to our world have come about swiftly insidiously and unnoticed by those whose communities are as yet unaffected. (OS)