The Songs of Trees

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143111302
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Book Synopsis The Songs of Trees by : David George Haskell

Download or read book The Songs of Trees written by David George Haskell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2018 JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR OUTSTANDING NATURAL HISTORY WRITING “Both a love song to trees, an exploration of their biology, and a wonderfully philosophical analysis of their role they play in human history and in modern culture.” —Science Friday The author of Sounds Wild and Broken and the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature’s most magnificent networkers — trees David Haskell has won acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world. Now, he brings his powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans. Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees, exploring connections with people, microbes, fungi, and other plants and animals. He takes us to trees in cities (from Manhattan to Jerusalem), forests (Amazonian, North American, and boreal) and areas on the front lines of environmental change (eroding coastlines, burned mountainsides, and war zones.) In each place he shows how human history, ecology, and well-being are intimately intertwined with the lives of trees. Scientific, lyrical, and contemplative, Haskell reveals the biological connections that underpin all life. In a world beset by barriers, he reminds us that life’s substance and beauty emerge from relationship and interdependence.

Earth & Nature Songs

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Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1609749650
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (97 download)

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Book Synopsis Earth & Nature Songs by : Jerry Silverman

Download or read book Earth & Nature Songs written by Jerry Silverman and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for Earth Day celebrations, this is the book for any nature lover! Many of the songs can be used for camp-outs, hiking or just pure fun. Includes I Love the Mountains, Land and Sea, Morning Song, America the Beautiful, Down the River, Earth Day Is Every Day (a children's musical) and many more. Written for voice and piano with guitar chords.

Nature's Music

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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080473555
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Nature's Music by : Peter R. Marler

Download or read book Nature's Music written by Peter R. Marler and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2004-10-05 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 that have taken place in our understanding of how and why birds sing, what their songs and calls mean, and how they have evolved. All contributors have strived to speak, not only to fellow experts, but also to the general reader. The result is a book of readable science, richly illustrated with recordings and pictures of the sounds of birds. Bird song is much more than just one behaviour of a single, particular group of organisms. It is a model for the study of a wide variety of animal behaviour systems, ecological, evolutionary and neurobiological. Bird song sits at the intersection of breeding, social and cognitive behaviour and ecology. As such interest in this book will extend far beyond the purely ornithological - to behavioural ecologists psychologists and neurobiologists of all kinds.* The scoop on local dialects in birdsong* How birdsongs are used for fighting and flirting* The writers are all international authorities on their subject

Sing a Song of Seasons

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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1536202479
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Book Synopsis Sing a Song of Seasons by : Nosy Crow

Download or read book Sing a Song of Seasons written by Nosy Crow and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sing a Song of Seasons is a lavishly illustrated collection of 366 nature poems — one for every day of the year. Filled with familiar favorites and new discoveries written by a wide variety of poets, including William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, John Updike, Langston Hughes, N. M. Bodecker, Okamoto Kanoko, and many more, this is the perfect book for children (and grown-ups!) to share at the beginning or the end of the day.

The Book of Music and Nature

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Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819574961
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Book Synopsis The Book of Music and Nature by : David Rothenberg

Download or read book The Book of Music and Nature written by David Rothenberg and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book, assembled by the editors of the renowned periodical Terra Nova, is the first anthology published on the subject of music and nature. Lush and evocative, yoking together the simplicities and complexities of the world of natural sound and the music inspired by it, this collection includes essays, illustrations, and plenty of sounds and music. The Book of Music and Nature celebrates our relationship with natural soundscapes while posing stimulating questions about that very relationship. The book ranges widely, with the interplay of the texts and sounds creating a conversation that readers from all walks of life will find provocative and accessible. The anthology includes classic texts on music and nature by 20th century masters including John Cage, Hazrat Inrayat Khan, Pierre Schaeffer, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Toru Takemitsu. Innovative essays by Brian Eno, Pauline Oliveros, David Toop, Hildegard Westerkamp and Evan Eisenberg also appear. Interspersed throughout are short fictional excerpts by authors Rafi Zabor, Alejo Carpentier, and Junichiro Tanazaki. The audio material for the book, available online at http://www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/musicandnaturecd/, includes fifteen tracks of music made out of, or reflective of, natural sounds, ranging from Babenzele Pygmy music to Australian butcherbirds, and from Pauline Oliveros to Brian Eno.

Songs Of The Earth

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Publisher : Running Press Miniature Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781561385232
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)

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Book Synopsis Songs Of The Earth by : Perseus

Download or read book Songs Of The Earth written by Perseus and published by Running Press Miniature Editions. This book was released on 1995-03-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Miniature Editions TM collection continues to grow! Since 1989, when our first minis appeared, Running Press has offered an astonishing range of subjects, sure to find a place in any booklover's library!

The Nature of Nordic Music

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315462834
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Book Synopsis The Nature of Nordic Music by : Tim Howell

Download or read book The Nature of Nordic Music written by Tim Howell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nature of Nordic Music explores two distinctive yet complementary understandings of the term ‘nature’: the inherent features, characters and qualities of contemporary Nordic music, and how the elemental forces of nature, the phenomena of the physical world (landscape, climate, environment), inspire and condition creativity here. Within a broader debate about the meaning of ‘Nordicness’, 12 case studies challenge our assumptions about a ‘Nordic tone’ to reveal a creative energy that is diverse and cosmopolitan in outlook. Each of the three parts of the book – ‘Identities’, ‘Images’ and ‘Environments’ – accommodates an eclectic array of musical genres (classical, popular, jazz, folk, electronic). This book will appeal to anyone interested in Nordic music and culture, especially students and researchers.

The World in Six Songs

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101043458
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis The World in Six Songs by : Daniel J. Levitin

Download or read book The World in Six Songs written by Daniel J. Levitin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-08-19 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the New York Times bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music reveals music’s role in the evolution of human culture in this thought-provoking book that “will leave you awestruck” (The New York Times). Daniel J. Levitin's astounding debut bestseller, This Is Your Brain on Music, enthralled and delighted readers as it transformed our understanding of how music gets in our heads and stays there. Now in his second New York Times bestseller, his genius for combining science and art reveals how music shaped humanity across cultures and throughout history. Here he identifies six fundamental song functions or types—friendship, joy, comfort, religion, knowledge, and love—then shows how each in its own way has enabled the social bonding necessary for human culture and society to evolve. He shows, in effect, how these “six songs” work in our brains to preserve the emotional history of our lives and species. Dr. Levitin combines cutting-edge scientific research from his music cognition lab at McGill University and work in an array of related fields; his own sometimes hilarious experiences in the music business; and illuminating interviews with musicians such as Sting and David Byrne, as well as conductors, anthropologists, and evolutionary biologists. The World in Six Songs is, ultimately, a revolution in our understanding of how human nature evolved—right up to the iPod.

Nature Songs for Children

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature Songs for Children written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sung Birds

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501727575
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Sung Birds by : Elizabeth Eva Leach

Download or read book Sung Birds written by Elizabeth Eva Leach and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 uses of birdsong within Western musical culture. She first explains why such melodious sound was not music for medieval thinkers and then goes on to consider the ontology of music, the significance of comparisons between singers and birds, and the relationship between art and nature as enacted by the musical performance of late-medieval poetry. If birdsong was not music, how should we interpret the musical depiction of birdsong in human music-making? What does it tell us about the singers, their listeners, and the moral status of secular polyphony? Why was it the fourteenth century that saw the beginnings of this practice, continued to this day in the music of Messiaen and others?Leach explores medieval arguments about song, language, and rationality whose basic terms survive undiminished into the present. She considers not only lyrics that have their singers voice the songs or speech of birds but also those that represent other natural, nonmusical, sounds such as human cries or the barks of dogs. The dangerous sweetness of birdsong was invoked in discussions of musical ethics, which, because of the potential slippage between irrational beast and less rational woman in comparisons with rational human masculinity, depict women's singing as less than fully human. Leach's argument comes full circle with the advent of sound recording. This technological revolution-like its medieval equivalent, the invention of the music book-once again made the relationship between music and nature an acute preoccupation of Western culture.

The Book of Music and Nature

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Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819573906
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Book Synopsis The Book of Music and Nature by : David Rothenberg

Download or read book The Book of Music and Nature written by David Rothenberg and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book and soundscapes, assembled by the editors of the renowned periodical Terra Nova, is the first anthology published on the subject of music and nature. Lush and evocative, yoking together the simplicities and complexities of the world of natural sound and the music inspired by it, this collection includes essays, illustrations, and plenty of sounds and music. The Book of Music and Nature celebrates our relationship with natural soundscapes while posing stimulating questions about that very relationship. The book ranges widely, with the interplay of the texts and sounds creating a conversation that readers from all walks of life will find provocative and accessible. The anthology includes classic texts on music and nature by twentieth century masters including John Cage, Hazrat Inrayat Khan, Pierre Schaeffer, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Toru Takemitsu. Innovative essays by Brian Eno, Pauline Oliveros, David Toop, Hildegard Westerkamp and Evan Eisenberg also appear. Interspersed throughout are short fictional excerpts by authors Rafi Zabor, Alejo Carpentier, and Junichiro Tanazaki. The audio includes fifteen tracks of music made out of, or reflective of, natural sounds, ranging from Babenzele Pygmy music to Australian butcherbirds, and from Pauline Oliveros to Brian Eno.

Caring for Nature: Listen to Nature's Song (The Save Silent Valley Campaign)

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Publisher : The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
ISBN 13 : 8179933636
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (799 download)

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Download or read book Caring for Nature: Listen to Nature's Song (The Save Silent Valley Campaign) written by Subhadra Sen Gupta and published by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early one morning Raghu and Dhani find an unusual bustle at school. Someone important is to speak in the morning assembly. Mr C. K. Nair of Kerala Sashtra Sahitya Parishad informs them about the Silent Valley Movement and how ecology of the Silent Valley, natural rainforests of Kerala, would get destroyed because the government wants to clear a part of the forest to create a reservoir. Is this a bigger trouble than anyone could ever have imagined! Does development justify destroying an entire ecosystem? Is this sacrifice worthwhile? Raghu and Dhani are left wondering. On a school trip soon, a thin, stooping man with binoculars around his neck uncovers the magic of the silent valley for Raghu and Dhani. In the forest, they spot a lion-tailed macaque, Nilgiri wood pigeon, Malabar parakeet, the great Indian hornbill and marvel at the sparkling waters of Kunthipuzha river and the many shades of green. Who is this mysterious old man? Will this paradise get destroyed? Will Raghu and Dhani join the Silent Valley movement? Other titles in the series: • Bapu and the Missing Blue Pencil • Rao Jodha and the Curse of the Hermit • Tagore and the Song of the Crazy Wind • King Ashoka and the Garden of Herbs • The Forests belong to us • The River of Life About the series: Caring for Nature series focuses on some important unforgettable stories of people’s movements, such as Chipko Andolan and Silent Valley Movement, among others to save their forests, rivers, or land from greedy interests.

the music of nature

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book the music of nature written by william gardiner and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mother Earth's Lullaby: A Song for Endangered Animals (Tilbury House Nature Book)

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Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0884485595
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (844 download)

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Book Synopsis Mother Earth's Lullaby: A Song for Endangered Animals (Tilbury House Nature Book) by : Terry Pierce

Download or read book Mother Earth's Lullaby: A Song for Endangered Animals (Tilbury House Nature Book) written by Terry Pierce and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bedtime book about endangered species When Mother Earth bids goodnight, / the world is bathed in silver light. / She says, “Goodnight, my precious ones.” / Nature’s song has just begun. Mother Earth’s Lullaby is a gentle bedtime call to some of the world’s most endangered animals. Rhythm, rhyme, and repetition create a quiet moment for children burrowing down in their own beds for the night, imparting a sense that even the most endangered animals feel safe at this peaceful time of day. In successive spreads, a baby giant panda, yellow-footed rock wallaby, California condor, Ariel toucan, American red wolf, Sumatran tiger, polar bear, Javan rhinoceros, Vaquita dolphin, Northern spotted owl, Hawaiian goose, and Key deer are snuggled to sleep by attentive parents in their dens and nests under the moon and stars. Brief descriptions of each animal appear in the back of the book.

Songs of Nature

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Book Synopsis Songs of Nature by : John Burroughs

Download or read book Songs of Nature written by John Burroughs and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rustic Songs of Nature

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
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Book Synopsis Rustic Songs of Nature by : Robert Tait

Download or read book Rustic Songs of Nature written by Robert Tait and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nature

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
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Book Synopsis Nature by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

Download or read book Nature written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: