Comments for stefan.seefeld.name http://stefan.seefeld.name Stefan's musings Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:41:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Le Chant Du Rossignol by stefan http://stefan.seefeld.name/2011/09/29/le-chant-du-rossignol/#comment-721 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:41:23 +0000 http://stefan.seefeld.name/?p=240#comment-721 Interesting, I’ll look for it. Speaking of idiosyncrasies, this reminds me of the work of a contemporary Québec guitarist – René Lussier, who quite famously (at least hear in Québec) recorded people on the street (and elsewhere) and then overdubbed the spoken (and in hindsight, one might add sung !) text with his own arrangements. Quite entertaining !
His work is called “Le Trésor De La Langue” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_tr%C3%A9sor_de_la_langue, e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ATBdtnjvw), and it was widely recognized and awarded.

]]> Comment on Le Chant Du Rossignol by Brooks http://stefan.seefeld.name/2011/09/29/le-chant-du-rossignol/#comment-720 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:37:39 +0000 http://stefan.seefeld.name/?p=240#comment-720 (For what it’s worth, it looks like Amazon has a reprint: http://www.amazon.com/Fieldbook-Wild-Birds-their-Music/dp/1557095183)

]]> Comment on Le Chant Du Rossignol by Brooks http://stefan.seefeld.name/2011/09/29/le-chant-du-rossignol/#comment-719 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:25:00 +0000 http://stefan.seefeld.name/?p=240#comment-719 I have a little book entitled “Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music”, by F. Schuyler Mathews, dated 1921 (reprint from 1904), which you might find entertaining — it’s very much idiosyncratic rather than very accurate representations, but one thing it has is musical-note transcriptions of the songs of a great many birds. Perhaps you could find a copy by inter-library loan, if I don’t think to show you next time I see you?

Sadly, for some reason it doesn’t seem to have a nightingale song, aside from mentioning a section of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony.

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