Is Birdsong Music? : Outback Encounters with an Australian Songbird /

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How and when does music become possible' Is it a matter of biology, or culture, or an interaction between the two' Revolutionizing the way we think about the core values of music and human exceptionalism, Hollis Taylor takes us on an outback road trip to meet the Australian pied butcherbir...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Taylor, Hollis (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Oiseaux > Chant > Australie.
Birdsongs.
MUSIC > General.
Butcherbirds > Behavior > Australia.
Birdsongs > Australia.
Australia.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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