Listening Pack (Birds)
Date: 5th Sep 2018 @ 9:54am
Listening Pack (Birds)
This term's listening pack is based on Birds, because of our book "Lizzie and the Birds".
Do you have any other ideas of good music that we could listen to based on this??? Please comment below.
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=8007
They might be giants - BirdHouse in your Soul 1990 Alternative Rock
http://www.songfacts.com/facts-bob_marley.php
Bob Marley- Three little birds 1977 Reggae
The source of Marley's inspiration for the lyrics of "Three Little Birds" remains disputed. They are partly inspired by birds that Marley was fond of, that used to fly and sit next to his home. Tony Gilbert, a long time friend of Marley, was present at the time he was writing the song and elaborated, "Bob got inspired by a lot of things around him, he observed life. I remember the three little birds. They were pretty birds, canaries, who would come by the windowsill at Hope Road." However, three female singers from the reggae group I Threes who did shows with Marley claim it is a reference to them. I Threes member Marcia Griffiths remarked, "After the song was written, Bob would always refer to us as the Three Little Birds. After a show, there would be an encore, sometimes people even wanted us to go back onstage four times. Bob would still want to go back and he would say, 'What is my Three Little Birds saying?'
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?lyrics=38843
Coldplay - Birds 2015
Listen to the Mockingbird 1855
https://www.bluegrassnet.com/lyrics/listen-to-the-mockingbird#.W41Gf85KjIU (Lyrics)
It relates the story of a singer dreaming of his sweetheart, now dead and buried, and a mockingbird, whose song the couple once enjoyed, now singing over her grave. Yet the melody is moderately lively. This song is a ballad
Messiaen: La merle noir (1952) The blackbird
Le Merle noir ("The Blackbird") is a chamber work by the French composer Olivier Messiaen for flute and piano. It was written and first performed in 1952[1] and is the composer's shortest independently published work, lasting just over five minutes. This work has become a staple of the French flute and piano repertoire.[citation needed]The composition originated in a commission for a test piece for flute for the Paris Conservatoire, at which Messiaen was a professor.[2] The winners of the premier prix in the Concours de flûte that year were Daniel Morlier, Jean Pierre Eustache, Jean Ornetti, Régis Calle and the British flute player Alexander Murray.[3] Messiaen had a consuming, lifelong interest in ornithology and particularly bird songs. While not his first work to incorporate stylised birdsong, Le Merle noir was the earliest of his pieces to be based mainly on birdsong,[4] and it foreshadows Messiaen's later, more extended birdsong-inspired pieces.
He recorded the sound of the blackbird, slowed it down on a record player an recreated it using musical notes.
The Lark Ascending (Vaughan Williams)