Yes, I must admit I got a bit confused,
my post may have been off topic,
The Paradise flycatcher is no relation to other Bulbul's
from what I can see.
As you noted, my Bulbul is a Nightingale, renowned for their beautiful
song.
Other Bulbuls are noted for having the worse sound in the bird kingdom,
obviously, they have not heard an Australian Crow.
Just a yarn about the Bulbul / nightingale...
Despite the reverence their culture shows for nightingale song, Afghan musicians have not made much specific use
of bird song in their melodies or forms. John Baily, one of Europe's greatest authorities on the musical culture of
Afghanistan, brought a recording of English nightingale song and played it to some Afghan refugee musicians
living in Pakistan. They were immediately excited. First they responded to the taped bird song using the 'drum
language' of spoken bhols in which players speak the patterns they later play on the tabla. Although no one had
noticed it before, the bird's phrases fit right into the sixteen beat recurring tintal cycle that is the most popular of
rhythms in that part of the world. Dha Ti Ta Dha | Ti Ta Dha Ti | Dha Dha Ti Ta | Dha Dha Tu Na. Then they got
out their tabla drums and rebab violin to jam along with the tape. To the drummers the nightingale's phrase was a
fully stuctured tabla solo, easy to assimilate and respond to. But their tradition had not explicitly made use of
nightingale rhythms before.2 The end result sounds like a new kind of interspecies music, part nightingale—with
the relentless call-and-response not trying to go anywhere or conclude—and the musicians caught in the web of the
challenge, trying to play exactly what is heard and to take it to some other, human level.
Nightingale song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTkZRO-FYTM
Posted 11/22/2012 03:09 am
