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Is birdsong music? : outback encounters with an Australian songbird / Hollis Taylor ; with a foreword by Philip Kitcher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Hollis, author.
- Series:
- Music, nature, place.
- Music, Nature, Place
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Birdsongs--Australia.
- Birdsongs.
- Butcherbirds--Behavior--Australia.
- Butcherbirds.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (364 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indianapolis, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Equal parts nature essay, memoir, and scholarship, Is Birdsong Music? offers vivid portraits of the extreme locations where these avian choristers are found, quirky stories from the field, and an in-depth exploration of the vocalizations of the pied butcherbird.
- Contents:
- An outback epiphany
- Songbird studies
- The nature of transcription and the transcription of nature
- Notes and calls: a taste for diversity
- Song development: a taste for complexity
- Musicality and the art of song: a taste for beauty
- Border conflicts at music's definition
- Facts to suit theories
- Too many theories and not enough birdsong
- Songbirds as colleagues and contemporaries.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780253026484
- 0253026482
- OCLC:
- 968151938
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