Twenty-Five Bird Songs for Children (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Twenty-Five Bird Songs for Children (Classic Reprint) written by William Benjamin Olds and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty-Five Bird Songs for Children The success with which Mr. Olds has secured and set a few of these gems of avian music should inspire others of the musical world to undertake a similar quest and to preserve some of the masterpieces of bird-music that apathy and neglect are now allowing to go to waste. Those who combine philosophy with music will find constant interest in study of the evident and very close relationship between bird-mhsic and human music. Not only is this relationship shown in the occasional coincidence of human and avian themes, but still more strikingly is it manifest in the identical rules of construction often governing rhythm, melody, and melodic and harmonic sequence in both. This fact so impressed my very good friend, k/irs. Amelia von Ende, the well-known musical and literary critic, that in a new course of lectures on the history of music, she has, as she recently informed me, ignored all precedent and started with bird-music as one of the sources. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.