Born to sing: an interpretation and world survey of bird song /

Born to Sing is a monumental undertaking, one of the most comprehensive, totally entertaining studies of bird vocalizations ever available. It offers a global survey of modes of singing, encompassing more than 5,000 species of singing birds, with special analyses of nearly 200 species with highly de...

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Main Author: Hartshorne, Charles, 1897-2000
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana University Press [1973]
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505 0 |a The aesthetic analogy as scientific hypothesis -- Animal music in general -- Bird song compared to human music -- Imitative singing and chatter -- Describing songs -- Measuring songs -- The monotony-threshold and the correlation of continuity with immediate variety -- Song-development and amount of singing -- The well-equipped singers (Oscines) -- Highly developed or "superior" songs -- The less well-equipped singers -- Some conclusions and unsolved problems -- Appendix A: Quality and quantity in 63 British songbirds -- Appendix B: Worldwide statistical sample of quality and quantity -- Appendix C: Some staff notations of songs -- Appendix D: Some spectrograms -- Glossary -- References -- Index of birds -- Index of persons -- Index of topics. 
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