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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Humanimalia
2020-03-01
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Series: | Humanimalia |
Online Access: | https://humanimalia.org/article/view/9457 |