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Alexander Liebermann's transcriptions of birdsongs is a fascinating study and should be of great interest not only to composers but lay people who are nature lovers. It shows the complexity of these songs realized by a very acute musical ear. A herculean job! - Samuel Adler, author of The Study of Orchestration Alexander Liebermann takes down the music of the usual virtuoso birds, like musician wrens and nightingales. But then he dares to transcribe the songs of penguins and cuckoos, thereby revealing an attention to his subjects more exact than anyone since Olivier Messiaen. Any musician who wants to play what birds sing should begin with this fabulous book. - David Rothenberg, author of Why Birds Sing and Nightingales in Berlin This book shares the joy of birdsong in a way the world needs. By interpreting the wonders of evolution through music, Alexander Liebermann is making nature accessible to a broader audience and inviting us all to be as creative as he is. - Ben Mirin, PhD Candidate, Cornell Lab of Ornithology I'm charmed by this lovely little book. The transcriptions of birdsongs that scroll across its pages sing of complexity, evolving beauty, and the miracle of life ongoing. In a time of extinction, when the world has already lost a third of its songbirds, Birdsong awakens joy, wonder, and the moral resolve to protect Earth's marvelous music. - Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Earth's Wild Music

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