From the Dawn Chorus to the Canary Choir

Birdsong is familiar but enigmatic: to some nothing but mechanical “instinct,” but so excessively exuberant that enthusiasts have linked the songs of birds to the development of the aesthetic sense. Where medieval scholars once saw the origins of music in the imitation of nature, by the Enlightenme...

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Main Authors: Olga Petri, Philip Howell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Humanimalia 2020-03-01
Series:Humanimalia
Online Access:https://humanimalia.org/article/view/9457