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Krause, Bernard L.,.
The great animal orchestra
[BOOK] :
finding the origins of music in the world's wild places /
Bernie Krause.
Finding the origins of music in the world's wild places.
First Back Bay paperback edition.
New York, NY :
Back Bay Books, Little Brown,
2013.
©2012.
277 pages, 12 pages :
illustrations ;
21 cm.
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Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company, 2012.
Includes reading group guide.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-265) and index.
1. Sound as my mentor -- 2. Voices from the land -- 3. The organized sound of life itself -- 4. Biophony: the proto-orchestra -- 5. First notes -- 6. Different croaks for different folks -- 7. The fog of noise -- 8. Noise and biophony / Oil and water -- 9. The coda of hope.
A musician and naturalist describes how the noise of humans is drowning out the sounds of nature and paints a picture of the relationship and connection between natural sounds and music that is becoming increasingly difficult to hear.
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Krause, Bernard L
Travel.
Animal sounds.
Nature
Effects of human beings on.
Sound
Psychological aspects.
Noise
Psychological aspects.
Aural history.
Musicians
Travel
United States.
Nature sounds.
Field recordings.