Sometimes I wonder if the melodies of composers, especially those before recorded music, were not in part influenced by natural sounds of the outdoors. The voices of familiar birds and frogs and buzzing bees find their way into human works of melodic art.
Whenever I'd hear the song of the Bewick's Wren, it brought to mind a bit of a Beethoven symphony. When I hear the piercing call of the chickadee (from which it got its name), I think of the outer space note pattern that is repeated throughout the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Perhaps some human composers are like mockingbirds, weaving beautiful music from soundbites of what they hear from day to day.
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