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  • Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our Rob's found this hand-cranked, programmable Japanese bird-song organ -- you create your own birdsongs by punching paper tapes.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • From Dvo ř á k ' s " New World " Symphony, with its construct of Indian and African-American folk idioms, to Messiaen ' s bird-song transcriptions of Bryce Canyon, composers have responded to it most often with collages, drawing on different musical and even extramusical references.

    Turning the City Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2010

  • It was bird-song that woke me, and sunlight through the tipi flap catching the corner of my eye, which was drowsily pleasant for a moment, until a harsh voice jarred me back to my plight.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • It was early and there was no sound except for bird-song.

    Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009

  • It was early and there was no sound except for bird-song.

    Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009

  • Hearing them, Gurney writes, “How could I think such beautiful … it was only bird-song.”

    A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

  • And yet the sun was as bright and glorious as ever, the sky full of bird-song.

    Claim to Fame Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009

  • And yet the sun was as bright and glorious as ever, the sky full of bird-song.

    Claim to Fame Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009

  • And yet the sun was as bright and glorious as ever, the sky full of bird-song.

    Claim to Fame Margaret Peterson Haddix 2009

  • It was early and there was no sound except for bird-song.

    Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009

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