[Tweeters] Bird Choreography (was: Great Blue Herons defending their feeding grounds

[Michael Price]

Hi Tweets

Pachelbel's Canon is maybe the most covered/adapted piece of music in
history. It's become the musical equivalent of duct tape, adaptable to
almost anything short of stomach flu. (don't think so? Check out Coolio's
'C U When You Get There', coming two cuts after 'Stick 'em!', one of the
nastiest prison raps ever, and at any given time right now, there's between
four and five contemporary pop songs piggybacking on that oh-so-familiar
chord-sequence). But this thread is about bird  choreography, so here's a
couple more suggestions.


I'd submit that any violin solo by Stefan Grappelli would perfectly
describe the flight of a Barn Swallow over a pond, pure
dancing-on-the-clouds delight.


To musically describe the frisbee forever-glide of a shearwater or jaeger
over calm water, what better than Boston's high-note sustain of 'More Than
a Feeling'? which just goes on foreverrrrrrrrr....


Just a couple of suggestions. But I'd also suggest there is no bird
behavior that can't be analogized to some piece of music of whatever genre.

best, m
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