. Field book of wild birds and their music; a description of the character and music of birds, intended to assist in the identification of species common in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains . to sayto himself, after a short pause, See here, my fine fel-low, this will never do, that portamento was out ofplace, and the high note sounded like the whetting of ascythe! Try a lower key and silence that Swainsonover yonder mouthing his zigzag notes as though hewere trying to make them creep upstairs! Shucks!Show him how to soar! And the bird is at it againentirely oblivious of the fact t
. Field book of wild birds and their music; a description of the character and music of birds, intended to assist in the identification of species common in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains . to sayto himself, after a short pause, See here, my fine fel-low, this will never do, that portamento was out ofplace, and the high note sounded like the whetting of ascythe! Try a lower key and silence that Swainsonover yonder mouthing his zigzag notes as though hewere trying to make them creep upstairs! Shucks!Show him how to soar! And the bird is at it againentirely oblivious of the fact that he steadily climbs inkeys until he goes to pieces again somewhere around Gsharp, whole octaves higher than the limit of the piano!Such is the character of the singer and bis song. Butwhat a consummate tone artist he is ! Not content witha single key, he deliberately chooses several in major andminor relationship, and elaborates these with perfectlycharming arpeggios and wonderful ventriloquous triads,executed with all the technical skill of a master what a wealth of melody there is in his varied themes!Note the suggestive motives of the following record: 262 HERMIT THRUSH. Wagner himself, in the Ring of the Nibelung, hasscarcely given a better song to the bird that addressesSiegfried, than this which a Hermit Thrush gave meone afternoon on a ferny hill of Campton. -A & O ! tcheel-y-will-y-will-y-il. And how close it is to the last passage here in Wagnersmusic, which one will recognize at once as the Tarnhelmmotive. The little bird sang this strain, together withthe Rhine daughters motive, to Siegfried. 263 FAMILY Turdidae. Jfoderato. A -h-F-h Vhis was the Rhine daughters mo-> tive which the little Warbler Jang.
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