The piece is based principally on the song of the Garden Warbler, the French name of which is the title of the composition, but features eighteen other birds.
Syringophilosis borini (Bochkoz & Mironov,1999, is a mite that parasitizes the Garden Warbler, Sylvia borin, from which it derives its name.
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The first movement (Entrée) is bipartite and juxtaposes several musical ideas: a theme inspired by Susanna's aria Venite inginocchiatevi in Act 2 of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, birdsong transcriptions (Garden Warbler as well as birds of New Zealand like the Blue-Wattled Crow, the Bush Canary and the Kakapo), a call and response of short melodic cells, a section for wind machine, strings and cymbal and two conclusive chords.