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unusual facts about Bird vocalization


Lottie Kimbrough

Holmes supplied a series of yodels, and vocalised bird calls and train whistles on both "Lost Lover Blues" and "Wayward Girl Blues" (1928).


Cantus Arcticus

Subtitled Concerto for Birds and Orchestra it incorporates tape recordings of birdsong recorded near the Arctic Circle and on the bogs of Liminka in northern Finland.

Gerald Levinson

He was inspired by Messiaen's use of birdsong and his unique harmonic ideas, as well as the musics of Bali and India.


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