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Author: Publisher: Gaia Project ISBN: 9780993219290 Category : Animals and civilization Languages : en Pages : 0
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There is an established understanding that birdsong is rooted on the premise that each singing bird is only, or predominantly, concerned with intra-specific communication. Yet, on listening to the mass of birds singing at dawn we have intuitively described the phenomenon as a 'chorus'. A close analysis of the whole auditory scene suggests inter-specific structure as well as intra-specific relationships, giving rise to the 'chorus' impression, rather than random cacophony. This publication explores how the arts can represent bird song in general and the dawn chorus in particular through ways that underline each chorus' specific nature of space and place, whilst avoiding the trap of projecting human phenomena onto the more-than-human world.
Author: Publisher: Gaia Project ISBN: 9780993219290 Category : Animals and civilization Languages : en Pages : 0
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There is an established understanding that birdsong is rooted on the premise that each singing bird is only, or predominantly, concerned with intra-specific communication. Yet, on listening to the mass of birds singing at dawn we have intuitively described the phenomenon as a 'chorus'. A close analysis of the whole auditory scene suggests inter-specific structure as well as intra-specific relationships, giving rise to the 'chorus' impression, rather than random cacophony. This publication explores how the arts can represent bird song in general and the dawn chorus in particular through ways that underline each chorus' specific nature of space and place, whilst avoiding the trap of projecting human phenomena onto the more-than-human world.
Author: Mary McGarry Morris Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101199474 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 772
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It's the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont. Maria Fermoyle is a strong but vulnerable divorced woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for dangerous con man Omar Duvall. Marie's children are Alice, seventeen—involved with a young priest; Norm, sixteen—hotheaded and idealistic; and Benny, twelve—isolated and misunderstood, and so desperate for his mother's happiness that he hides the deadly truth he knows about Duvall. We also meet Sam Fermoyle, the children's alcoholic father; Sam's brother-in-law, who makes anonymous "love" calls from the bathroom of his failing appliance store; and the Klubock family, who—in contrast to the Fermoyles—live an orderly life in the house next door. Songs in Ordinary Time is a masterful epic of the everyday, illuminating the kaleidoscope of lives that tell the compelling story of this unforgettably family.
Author: Publisher: Rolland Press ISBN: 144372663X Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 456
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Our Singing Country A Second Volume of American Ballads and Folk Songs COLLECTED AND COMPILED BY JOHN A. LOMAX Honorary Consultant and Curator of the Archive of American Folk Song of the Library of Congress AND ALAN LOMAX Assistant in Charge of the Archive of American Folk Song of the Library of Congress RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER Music Editor New York The Macmillan Company 19 49 TO WILL C. HOGG Classmate and Friend Whose life was a ballad INTRODUCTION In any country it Is the people who make the differences. The landscapes with the thumb-mark and the heel-mark of the people on them are the land scapes you remember. In Chile it is not the mountains which make the unbelievable loveliness of that country but the rows of poplars standing under the stone of the Andes, leaf against granite. It is the same way in other countries. France with the fields so and the roads so and the villages square to them. England with the roofs set this way not in any other way. Persia with the water courses in the wild gardens and the peach boughs over the mud walls. Japan where the pines on the ridge-poles of the moun tains are warped by the wind but not by the wind only. It is the mark of the people on any country which gives it the feel it leaves in a mans mind. Even the sense of time in a country is the sense of the people in it now and before now. But it is not only the heel-marks on the hill-sides and the way the roads run that show the traces of the people. There are other marks in other mate rials and not least in the substance of words and the substance of music. Music and words will wear under the use of a people as easily as the earth will wear and the marks will last longer. Devoted writers write asthough the body of the people of a country made songs for themselves and poems for themselves the folk songs and the folk music. But to speak prosaically the people do not make songs and poems for themselves. The folk songs and the folk poems come from far back and like any song or any poem they have had beginnings in a single mind. What the people of a country do with the music they take over for themselves and the poems they take over for themselves is to pass them along from hand to hand, from mouth to mouth, from one generation to the next, until they wear smooth in the shape the people this particular people is obliged to give them. The people make their songs and poems the way the people make a stone stair in an old building of this republic where the treads are worn down and shaped up the way their users have to have them. The folk songs and the folk poems show the mark of a people on them the way the old silver dollars show the mark of shoving thumbs but with far more meaning. They show the peoples mark more even than the line of the roads in a country or the shape of the houses hopeful or not so hopeful and they last longer. The people or the poets either who can leave their mark on the words or on the music of a country, leave it for a long time and in an honorable place. This second volume of American ballads and folk songs collected by vii Introduction John Lomax of Texas and his son Alan, the two men who created, under the brilliant direction of Herbert Putnam and Dr. Harold Spivacke, the Archive of American Folk Song in the Library of Congress, is a body of words and of music which tells more about the American people than all the miles of their quadruple-lane expresshighways and all the acres of their bill-board plastered cities a body of words and of music which tells almost as much about the American people as the marks they have made upon the earth itself. It is a book which many Americans will delight to open, and not once but many times. But behind this book is another body of material also a product of the work of Mr. Putnam and the Lomaxes which reveals with even greater precision the character and the distinction of the mark left upon their music and their words by the people of this country...
Author: James Lewis Milligan Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781331722755 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 70
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Excerpt from Songs in Time's Despite With two exceptions, all the following Poems have appeared in "The Daily Chronicle" or "The Graphic," and the Author's thanks are due to the Editors for their kind permission to reprint them. The Poem appearing on page 38 has this year gained the Liverpool University "Hemans Prize" for lyrical poetry. 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: Source Wikipedia Publisher: Booksllc.Net ISBN: 9781230787848 Category : Languages : en Pages : 40
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 38. Chapters: 'Til a Tear Becomes a Rose, Another Place, Another Time, Baby Girl (Sugarland song), Back in My Younger Days, Believe Me Baby (I Lied), Brotherly Love (Moe Bandy song), Desperately (Don Williams song), Dirty Girl (Terri Clark song), Don't Close Your Eyes (song), Down in Mississippi (Up to No Good), Down on My Knees, Everybody Knows (Trisha Yearwood song), Falling Again, Georgia Rain, Give Me One More Shot, Good Ole Boys Like Me, Heartbeat in the Darkness, Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love (song), Hello L.O.V.E., Home to You (song), How Do I Live, I'll Never Be in Love Again, I'm No Stranger to the Rain, I'm Over You (Keith Whitley song), I've Been Loved by the Best, If Hollywood Don't Need You (Honey I Still Do), In My Next Life, In This Life (Collin Raye song), It's Time for Love (Don Williams song), It Ain't Nothin', I Believe in You (Don Williams song), I Wanna Go Too Far, I Want You Bad (And That Ain't Good), I Wonder Do You Think of Me (song), I Wouldn't Be a Man, Just as Long as I Have You, Just Might (Make Me Believe), Lay Down Beside Me, Like We Never Had a Broken Heart, Listen to the Radio, Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good, Lord Have Mercy on a Country Boy, Love Is on a Roll, Love Me Over Again, Maggie's Dream (song), Miracles (Don Williams song), Mistakes (Don Williams song), Nobody but You, Now I Know, Old Coyote Town, One Good Well, Real Live Woman (song), Senorita (Don Williams song), She's in Love with the Boy, Should've Asked Her Faster, Somebody's Doin' Me Right, Somebody Else's Moon, Something More (Sugarland song), Stay Young (Gallagher & Lyle song), That's How You Know (When You're in Love), That's My Baby (song), That's What I Like About You, That Was a River, Then It's Love, The Song Remembers When (song), The Woman Before Me, Thinkin' About You...
Author: Philip Furia Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135471924 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 359
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America's Songs tells the stories behind the most beloved popular songs of the last century. We all have songs that have a special meaning in our lives; hearing them evokes a special time or place. Little wonder that these special songs have become enduring classics. Nothing brings the roarin '20s to life like Tea for Two or I'm just Wild About Harry; the Great Depression is evoked in all of its pain and misery in songs like Brother Can You Spare a Dime?; God Bless America revives the powerful hope that American democracy promised to the world during the dark days of World War II; Young at Heart evokes the postwar optimism of the '50s. And then there are the countless songs of love, new romance, and heartbreak: As Time Goes By, Always, Am I Blue...the list is endless. Along with telling the stories behind these songs, America's Songs suggests, simply and succinctly, what makes a song great. The book illuminates the way each great song melds words and music - sentiment and melody - into a seamless whole. America's Songs also traces the fascinating but mysterious process of collaboration, the give-and-take between two craftsmen, a composer and a lyricist, as they combined their talents to create a song. For anyone interested in the history of the songs that America loves, America'sSongs will make for fascinating reading.
Author: Christopher Morley Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781722476472 Category : Languages : en Pages : 64
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Songs for a Little House By Christopher Morley BAYBERRY CANDLES Dear sweet, when dusk comes up the hill, The fire leaps high with golden prongs;I place along the chimneysill The tiny candles of my songs.And though unsteadily they burn, As evening shades from grey to blueLike candles they will surely learn To shine more clear, for love of you. SECRET LAUGHTER "I had a secret laughter." -Walter de la Mare. There is a secret laughterThat often comes to me, And though I go about my workAs humble as can be, There is no prince or prelate I envy-no, not one.No evil can befall me- By God, I have a son! A CHARM For Our New Fireplace, To Stop Its Smoking O wood, burn bright; O flame, be quick;O smoke, draw cleanly up the flue-My lady chose your every brickAnd sets her dearest hopes on you!Logs cannot burn, nor tea be sweet, Nor white bread turn to crispy toast, Until the charm be made completeBy love, to lay the sooty ghost.And then, dear books, dear waiting chairs, Dear china and mahogany, Draw close, for on the happy stairsMy brown-eyed girl comes down for tea! SIX WEEKS OLD He is so small, he does not knowThe summer sun, the winter snow;The spring that ebbs and comes again, All this is far beyond his ken.A little world he feels and sees: His mother's arms, his mother's knees;He hides his face against her breast, And does not care to learn the rest. THE YOUNG MOTHER Of what concern are wars to her, Or treaties broken on the seas?Or all the cruelties of men? She has her baby on her knees.In blessed singleness of heart, What heed has she for nations' wrath?She sings a little peaceful hymn As she prepares the baby's bath.As in a dream, she hears the talk Of mine, torpedo, bomb and gun-She shudders, but her thoughts are all Encradled with her little son. PETER PAN "The boy for whom Barrie wrote Peter Pan-theoriginal of Peter Pan-has died in battle." -New York Times. And Peter Pan is dead? not so!When mothers turn the lights down lowAnd tuck their little sons in bed, They know that Peter is not dead....That little rounded blanket-hill;Those prayer-time eyes, so deep and still-However wise and great a manHe grows, he still is Peter Pan.And mothers' ways are often queer: They pause in doorways, just to hearA tiny breathing; think a prayer;And then go tiptoe down the stair. THE 5:42 Lilac, violet, and roseArdently the city glows;Sunset glory, purely sweet, Gilds the dreaming byway-street, And, above the Avenue, Winter dusk is deepening blue.(Then, across Long Island meadows, Darker, darker, grow the shadows: Patience, little waiting lass!Laggard minutes slowly pass;Patience, laughs the yellow fire: Homeward bound is heart's desire!)Hark, adown the canyon streetFlows the merry tide of feet;High the golden buildings loomBlazing in the purple gloom;All the town is set with stars, Homeward chant the Broadway cars...! We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
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