Birdsong: A Musical Field Guide

by Alexander Liebermann, Austin Kleon (Foreword by), Anna Schiller (Illustrator)

Overview

Birdsong: A Musical Field Guide is a source of inspiration for curious and creative people, regardless of their background or expertise in music or birds! It features ten hyper-accurate musical transcriptions of birdsong, each accompanied by a brief description of the species, a custom illustration, and a QR code directing the reader to videos of the original birdsong. In transcribing everything from nightingales and warblers to cuckoos and penguins, author Alexander Liebermann encourages us all to open our ears and listen to the world around us.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798985438604
Publisher:	Just a Theory Press
Publication date:	01/15/2022
Pages:	74
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.20(d)

Editorial Reviews

"Alexander Liebermann's transcriptions of birdsongs is a fascinating study and should be of great interest not only to composers but lay people who are nature lovers. It shows the complexity of these songs realized by a very acute musical ear. A herculean job!" - Samuel Adler, author of The Study of Orchestration

"Alexander Liebermann takes down the music of the usual virtuoso birds, like musician wrens and nightingales. But then he dares to transcribe the songs of penguins and cuckoos, thereby revealing an attention to his subjects more exact than anyone since Olivier Messiaen. Any musician who wants to play what birds sing should begin with this fabulous book." - David Rothenberg, author of Why Birds Sing and Nightingales in Berlin

"This book shares the joy of birdsong in a way the world needs. By interpreting the wonders of evolution through music, Alexander Liebermann is making nature accessible to a broader audience and inviting us all to be as creative as he is." - Ben Mirin, PhD Candidate, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

"I'm charmed by this lovely little book. The transcriptions of birdsongs that scroll across its pages sing of complexity, evolving beauty, and the miracle of life ongoing. In a time of extinction, when the world has already lost a third of its songbirds, Birdsong awakens joy, wonder, and the moral resolve to protect Earth's marvelous music." - Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Earth's Wild Music

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