Singing Like Larks: A Celebration of Birds in Folk Songs Millham Andrew
Singing Like Larks: A Celebration of Birds in Folk Songs Millham Andrew Birds are beloved for their song and have featured in our own music for centuries. Ornithological folk songs are themselves…
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Singing Like Larks: A Celebration of Birds in Folk Songs Millham Andrew
Birds are beloved for their song and have featured in our own music for centuries. Ornithological folk songs are themselves something of a threatened species. Singing Like Larks opens a rare window onto birdlife, folklore, traditional verse, and song writing, especially in the British Isles.In this charming volume, folklore, verse, and nature writing combine to explore why birds appear in so many folk songs, with song lyrics, history, and anecdotes drawing on a rich heritage.
Lifetimes of wisdom are etched into these songs, preserving the natural rhythms of times past and our connection to feathered friends.A treasury of bird-related folk songs, this is also an account of one young nature Melodies lost in the passage of time, their lyrics tucked in archives, our awareness of birds, their song and our own traditions must be passed down from one generation to the next.
Songs of the Birds