Provides an introduction to classical music, describing how birds have inspired composers throughout history, and includes a musical glossary and short biograph

Presents the songs and calls of more than seventy North American birds. Includes audio compact disc featuring songbird concerts and solos.

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 us

The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination. Nature's Music brings together some of the world's experts on birdsong, to review the advances tha

Describes the bird calls and songs of North American birds, including a sonagram that give a visual representation of the sounds, and provides recorded examples