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What can we learn from the singing of Nightingales and Blackbirds for melodies composition?
Listened recordings of many hours with the singing of nightingales , Blackbirds and some other singing birds. E.g.
NIGHTINGALES:
etc
BLACKBIRDS:
etc
What I learned is I believe very valuable and interesting. When I was listening to their singing, I tried to become aware of order-topological pitch patterns (as words or phrases in the Dolphin language. See post 101).
Very often, the emotional message of their melodic themes was very relevant or even copying the feelings and shapes of their flying patterns, as flying is their best ability, and they are proud of it. And most probably with their singing they describe it.
Here is what else I remarked
NIGHTINGALES:
1) The order-topological pitch shapes oft heir melodic themes (or Dolphin language words see post 101, and 107) are mainly expanding rather than contracting. Therefore more joyful than sad. Most of the time they end their melodic phrases at high pitch (as folk Irish and other countries folk music often does) , and not as in classical music in a low final note.
2) From time to time they start with a very high pitch note, which is hold for long, then they move to a low pitch note and trill and finally the end with an up pitch note again.
3) They trills maybe of very high pitch too, and the pitch distance between them is large. Could be more than 2 octaves!
4) Very often, the emotional message of their melodic themes was very relevant or even copying the feelings and shapes of their flying patterns. E.g. "I fly Up, I go down close to the dangerous ground , I escape death and I fly up again" This is not so common pattern in the singing of Blackbirds.
5) Nightingales have larger intervals of silence between their melodies compared ti Blackbirds.
BLACKBIRDS:
1) Blackbirds have more complicated melodies compared to nightingales. Again as with the nightingales, most of the time they end their melodic phrases at high pitch (as folk Irish and other countries music often does) , and not as in classical music in a low final note.
2) Blackbirds utilize many layers of waving and trills in their melodies (see post 114).
3) Their melodic themes as order-topological patterns of pitch (see post 101) are more often expansive (joy freedom) than contracting (sadness ,immobility).
4) They have many sliding-up trills
5) They have very often the next pattern Contracting melodic theme-> Expansive melodic theme that goes up.
6) Very often they start with a low pitch waving melodic theme, and then they shift it fast upwards, where it ends.
7) Quite often the have a scattered expanding channel of separated trills, and then they end upwards with an upwards sliding trill.
As a conclusion, we observe that their melodic themes express mainly the emotions of joy, freedom, expansive flying and most of the times end their singing at the upper registers of pitch ranges rather than at their lower registers . etc Trills are very often melodic patterns.
