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BirdTalk: Conversations with Birds von Alan…
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BirdTalk: Conversations with Birds (Original 2003; 2002. Auflage)

von Alan Powers (Autor), Richard C. Wheeler (Autor), Susan Mohl Powers (Autor)

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For the last 20 years, Alan Powers, who lives near Cape Cod, has experimented with birdcalls--mimicking and answering the calls he hears around his country home, in cities, and abroad in France and Italy. In BirdTalk, he celebrates this connection with entertaining allusions to history, literature, travel, linguistics, and other fields. The result is a charming and erudite stroll through an area of interest sometimes lost in the urban din. Powers reveals "birdtalk" by mapping the history of ornithological studies, quoting such bird fanciers as Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson and discussing specific techniques. In one of the most amusing chapters, he describes his attempts to teach the birds new symphonic riffs on their own calls. This illustrated literary inquiry into birdcalls is a nature book with a gift-book look.… (mehr)
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Titel:BirdTalk: Conversations with Birds
Autoren:Alan Powers (Autor)
Weitere Autoren:Richard C. Wheeler (Autor), Susan Mohl Powers (Autor)
Info:Frog Books (2002), Edition: 1st, 216 pages
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It is currently in worldwide libraries, and at least one zoo. It grew from 25 years of learning one bird's many vocalizations each summer. First summer, the Robin; second, the Oriole, etc. Powers gave over seventy Birdtalk-talks at bookstores, churches, and on radio--as well as one TV show, in Milan, Italy, RAI Tre. One was at the Dickinson Manse in Amherst, MA, in the garden where he recited several of ED's bird poems from memory--and one Frost poem on the Wood Thrush, "Come In." He ended other talks with "Come In," to which he adds my the pentatonic/bluesy Wood Thrush song, "Far in the pillared dark / Thrush music went / Almost like a call / To come into the dark and lament/ But No, I was out for stars/ I would not come in / I meant, not even if asked/ And I hadn't been."; the poem plays and concludes here with the Pathetic Fallacy."
Highly recommend a new international website,
www.zoomusicology.com Click on the R, "Zoomusicologists," and scroll down past the name Powers to T, Hollis Taylor, an Australian composer and bird expert. Click on Pied Butcherbird MP3. Eight seconds of sheer artistry by a bird from Alice Springs, 2000 kilometers from Taylor's home in Eastern Australia. ( )
  AlanWPowers | Oct 22, 2020 |
Powers had to learn the composition program Finale to write this book. Not all books on bird vocalization feature the author's renditions of microtonal birdtalk; Powers must compete with Leonard Bernstein, who began in publishing by notating jazz solos etc. Bernstein wins. Still, this book's ideal reader knows a bit of music; otherwise, the numerous discussions of diatonic scales and intervals will take getting used to. Powers keeps the intro simple, defining intervals through the expedient of the National Anthem.
Powers' best paragraphs may be on what birds do NOT talk about--sports, investments, most all of TV. What they DO talk about I leave to readers of the book.
Birdtalk received some reviews and notices--the Leonard Lopate Show (WNYC), Radio Uno (Milano), Birding magazine, Amherst magazine, a couple others; and whistling lectures were delivered, largely readings from the book, with some spiced additional poem recitations. Dickinson's various bird poems, The Blue Jay, the Oriole, and the Robin were recited in the garden of the Dickinson home 10 July 2005.
Schuyler Matthews century-old book notates birdtalk as does Powers, but Matthews often remarks the birds' failure to use the diatonic scale. Absolutely true. They glissando and slide around pitch, very meaningfully. Powers, as a trombonist, understands glissandos.
One of his best points compares the Dawn Chorus of birds to Giovanni Capurro's Neapolitan song, "O Sole Mio." In the 1920's, after Capurro had died, the Italians won a gold medal at the Olympics in the Netherlands (maybe). The band did not know the (newish) Italian national anthem, so they played "O Sole Mio," and the whole stadium erupted in song. ( )
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  AlanWPowers | Jan 5, 2013 |
The strength of Powers's own connection to the world of the natural is never in doubt, and the wild birds he sees and hears inspire him not only as a writer but also as a critic and a musician. His discussions of poetic and dramatic text by Keats, Shakespeare, and especially Dickinson are freah and enlightening, written with the same easy good humor as the rest of the book, and so appealing as to make even the most critical reviewer overlook the infrequent ornithological lapses.
Powers's interest in the wild music of birds is matched by his enthusiasm for human compositions, and among the most fascinating episodes in the book is his attempt to introduce Baltimore Orioles to the masters of Viennese classicism. But influence flows in both directions, and Powers follows his evocative account of listening to European Blackbirds with an excerpt from the original jazz composition the experience inspired.
As varied, even as startling, as much of this book is, a coherent and convincing message does gradually emerge. What the essays, anecdotes, musical citations, and literary musings all share is the conviction that "bird talk"--the habit of conscious observation and reflection on the connection between the human and the natural worlds--can save us from the frenzies of life in the age of technology. There is no sentiment, no pathos in the lesson, which Powers does not urge on us but rather offers here for us to take to heart if we choose; but I cannot imagine the reader of this heterodox and delightful book who turns from it unmoved.
hinzugefügt von AlanWPowers | bearbeitenBirding, Rick Wright (Oct 1, 2004)
 

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Powers, AlanHauptautoralle Ausgabenbestätigt
Powers, Susan MohlIllustratorCo-Autoralle Ausgabenbestätigt
Wheeler, RichardEinführungCo-Autoralle Ausgabenbestätigt
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I am no saint, but I do talk to birds. They respond, most of them, depending on time of day and time of year. I am not sure I should tell you what they tell me. It is privileged communication, "For ears only," as government security might put it. It is a secret, an open secret.
One thing I am at liberty to reveal. They want in to sports competition…I've met Hummingbirds who would win all the Olympic dash events…and the hurdles.
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For the last 20 years, Alan Powers, who lives near Cape Cod, has experimented with birdcalls--mimicking and answering the calls he hears around his country home, in cities, and abroad in France and Italy. In BirdTalk, he celebrates this connection with entertaining allusions to history, literature, travel, linguistics, and other fields. The result is a charming and erudite stroll through an area of interest sometimes lost in the urban din. Powers reveals "birdtalk" by mapping the history of ornithological studies, quoting such bird fanciers as Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson and discussing specific techniques. In one of the most amusing chapters, he describes his attempts to teach the birds new symphonic riffs on their own calls. This illustrated literary inquiry into birdcalls is a nature book with a gift-book look.

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