Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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List of the Specimens of Birds in the Collection of the British Museum: sec. I. Ramphastidæ. 1855. sec. II. Psittacidæ. 1859. sec. III-IV. Capitomidæ and Picidæ. 1868
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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The Museum
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 1526
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 1526
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Birdsong Under the Wisdom Tree
Author: Megan Chaskey
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1504338634
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In Birdsong Under the Wisdom Tree, Megan Chaskey follows the archetypal poets journey, interweaving a lifetime of poems, journal entries, and memoir. Through her deep intimacy with both the inner landscape of imagination and the eloquent worlds of nature and relationship, Megans musical voice evolves from her younger years in an artistic family through loss and renewal as a poet, woman, mother, and the beloved wife of fellow poet Scott Chaskey. Megan unites all the elements of her sensibility into a lyrical and profoundly spiritual mosaic. In a world that may try to draw us away from a heart-centered life, Birdsong Under the Wisdom Tree stands as a reminder to live our lives from a place of love.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1504338634
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In Birdsong Under the Wisdom Tree, Megan Chaskey follows the archetypal poets journey, interweaving a lifetime of poems, journal entries, and memoir. Through her deep intimacy with both the inner landscape of imagination and the eloquent worlds of nature and relationship, Megans musical voice evolves from her younger years in an artistic family through loss and renewal as a poet, woman, mother, and the beloved wife of fellow poet Scott Chaskey. Megan unites all the elements of her sensibility into a lyrical and profoundly spiritual mosaic. In a world that may try to draw us away from a heart-centered life, Birdsong Under the Wisdom Tree stands as a reminder to live our lives from a place of love.
Sung Birds
Author: Elizabeth Eva Leach
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501727575
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Is birdsong music? The most frequent answer to this question in the Middle Ages was resoundingly "no." In Sung Birds, Elizabeth Eva Leach traces postmedieval uses of birdsong within Western musical culture. She first explains why such melodious sound was not music for medieval thinkers and then goes on to consider the ontology of music, the significance of comparisons between singers and birds, and the relationship between art and nature as enacted by the musical performance of late-medieval poetry. If birdsong was not music, how should we interpret the musical depiction of birdsong in human music-making? What does it tell us about the singers, their listeners, and the moral status of secular polyphony? Why was it the fourteenth century that saw the beginnings of this practice, continued to this day in the music of Messiaen and others?Leach explores medieval arguments about song, language, and rationality whose basic terms survive undiminished into the present. She considers not only lyrics that have their singers voice the songs or speech of birds but also those that represent other natural, nonmusical, sounds such as human cries or the barks of dogs. The dangerous sweetness of birdsong was invoked in discussions of musical ethics, which, because of the potential slippage between irrational beast and less rational woman in comparisons with rational human masculinity, depict women's singing as less than fully human. Leach's argument comes full circle with the advent of sound recording. This technological revolution-like its medieval equivalent, the invention of the music book-once again made the relationship between music and nature an acute preoccupation of Western culture.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501727575
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Is birdsong music? The most frequent answer to this question in the Middle Ages was resoundingly "no." In Sung Birds, Elizabeth Eva Leach traces postmedieval uses of birdsong within Western musical culture. She first explains why such melodious sound was not music for medieval thinkers and then goes on to consider the ontology of music, the significance of comparisons between singers and birds, and the relationship between art and nature as enacted by the musical performance of late-medieval poetry. If birdsong was not music, how should we interpret the musical depiction of birdsong in human music-making? What does it tell us about the singers, their listeners, and the moral status of secular polyphony? Why was it the fourteenth century that saw the beginnings of this practice, continued to this day in the music of Messiaen and others?Leach explores medieval arguments about song, language, and rationality whose basic terms survive undiminished into the present. She considers not only lyrics that have their singers voice the songs or speech of birds but also those that represent other natural, nonmusical, sounds such as human cries or the barks of dogs. The dangerous sweetness of birdsong was invoked in discussions of musical ethics, which, because of the potential slippage between irrational beast and less rational woman in comparisons with rational human masculinity, depict women's singing as less than fully human. Leach's argument comes full circle with the advent of sound recording. This technological revolution-like its medieval equivalent, the invention of the music book-once again made the relationship between music and nature an acute preoccupation of Western culture.
The Children's Buyer's Guide
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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The Smell of Chocolate and Pog's Alzheimer Fact File
Author: Barbara McGuire
Publisher: R.I.C. Publications
ISBN: 9781741260106
Category : Alzheimer's disease
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
This delightful, full colour, hardcover storybook helps explain Alzheimer's disease in a humorous yet touching way. $1.
Publisher: R.I.C. Publications
ISBN: 9781741260106
Category : Alzheimer's disease
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
This delightful, full colour, hardcover storybook helps explain Alzheimer's disease in a humorous yet touching way. $1.
Directory to the Birds of Eastern North America
Author: Charles Johnson Maynard
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Publisher:
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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The School Librarian
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Category : School libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Category : School libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Wrangell Outfitter and Guide Management Plan
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Category : Environmental impact analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Category : Environmental impact analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Birds and Birding on the Mississippi Coast
Author: Judith A. Toups
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617033551
Category : Bird watching
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617033551
Category : Bird watching
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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