Abschnittsübersicht

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    General Information

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    Introduction and Overview (Oct 14th, 21st)

    • Brainstorming – Animals in Music history, Role of Animals in Music Datei
    • Animals in Music Encyclopedias Verzeichnis
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        Further Reading

        • A good overview on the topic, drawing some historical lines:

          Doolittle, Emily Leonore. „Crickets in the Concert Hall: A History of Animals in Western Music“. In: Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música 12 (2008). http://www.sibetrans.com/trans/articulo/94/crickets-in-the-concert-hall-a-history-of-animals-in-western-music

          We won't cover the ethnomusicological perspective in the course. But as Harley briefly touched upon it, I recommend the book based on this influential book, originally a PhD thesis published in 1982: 

          Feld, Steven. Sound and sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression. 3rd ed. Duke University Press, 2012.

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    (1) Representation of Bird Song in Human Music

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        Oct 28th. Modern era (before 1900)

        • Each student prepares one example (from Harley or else): Present to the group a piece of music, elaborating on the degree of adaptation you find in rendering the bird song into human music. Optional: find some supplementing literature.

          15 mins for each presentation (including discussion): We won’t have time to listen to all pieces. Please choose a suitable excerpt and keep focus in your analysis as well. 

        • Reading Datei

          For a discussion of programing such pieces please prepare at least p. 273–277 or this text:

          Herrmann-Fertig, Lisa: „Multispecies Ethnomusicology – zur Relevanz sorgsamen Zuhörens in Vielfachkrisen“. In Hingehört! Der Sound des Anthropozäns / Listen! The Sound of the Anthropocene, herausgegeben von Lisa Herrmann-Fertig und Michaela Fenske, 271–293.

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        Nov 4th. Bird Song in medieval music

        • Leach2007 Datei
          Leach, Elizabeth Eva. Sung Birds: music, nature, and poetry in the later Middle Ages. Cornell University Press, 2007.
           
          Please prepare the introduction (p. 1–9) and the musical example p. 84–90.
          Feel free to preparte another example from the book of your own choice.
           

        • Further Reading:

          I have written about the exclusion of animal sounds from musicology in the first half of the 20th century in Chapter II.3.a of my book Von Admiral bis Zebrafink, p. 256–274; specifically 259–266; about the talk by Friedrich Blume in the 1950s in the introduction to Part. II.1, p. 166–169.

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        Nov 11th. 20th century: Messiaen - a milestone?

        • Please prepare: Verzeichnis

          Messiaen, Olivier: Technik meiner musikalischen Sprache. Text und Musikbeispiele, übers. v. Sieglinde Ahrens, Paris o.D. [Vorwort dat. 1941]

          Hill, Peter: From Réveil des oiseaux to Catalogue d’oiseaux. Messiaen’s Cahiers de notations des chants d’oiseaux, 1952–59, in: Messiaen perspectives 1: Sources and Influences, ed. by Christopher Dingle and Robert Fallon, Farnham/Burlington 2013, S. 143–174.

        • Further Reading Verzeichnis

          Messiaen, Olivier. Olivier Messiaen. Texte, Analysen, Zeugnisse. Ed. by Wolfgang Rathert, Herbert Schneider et al. Bd. 1. Hildesheim, 2012.

          Hill, Peter and Nigel Simeone: Olivier Messiaen. Oiseaux exotiques, Aldershot 2007. [You'll find some excerpts and the tracks of the accompanying CD in the Nextcloud-Folder.]

          Messiaen, Olivier. Traité de rythme, de couleur et d’ornithologie. 7 vols. Leduc, 1994. Excerpt from Vol. 5,1
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        Nov 18th. Aspects of representation

        • Please prepare: Verzeichnis
          1. Either (a, in German) or (b, in English):
           
          (a) Voigt, Alwin. Exkursionsbuch zum Studium der Vogelstimmen. Praktische Anleitung zum Bestimmen der Vögel nach ihrem Gesange. 4. Aufl. Hans Schultze Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1906. p. 18—25
          (b) Saunders, Aretas A. „Suggestions for Better Methods of Recording and Studying Bird Song“. Auk 32 (1915): p. 173–183.
           
          2. Either (a) or (b): 
           
          (a) Fallon, Robert. „The record of realism in Messiaen’s bird style“. In Olivier Messiaen. Music, Art and Literature, ed. by Christopher Dingle and Nigel Simeone. Ashgate, 2007. p. 116–136.
          (b) Taylor, Hollis. „Whose Bird Is It? Messiaen’s Transcriptions of Australian Songbirds“. Twentieth-Century Music 11, Nr. 01 (2014): 63–100.

        • Further reading: 

          Heiter, Susanne (2021). Von Admiral bis Zebrafink. Tiere und Tierlaute in der Musik nach 1950. Forum Musikwissenschaft, Band 13. Edition Argus, 2021. https://doi.org/10.25366/2023.229, p. 125–149. A short survey over historical notation of bird song, as well as trancriptions of Olivier Messiaen and Hollis Taylor.

          Ullrich, Martin. „‚Singen die Vögel überhaupt?‘“ In: Zwischen Komposition und Hermeneutik. Festschrift für Harmut Fladt, herausgegeben von Ariane Jeßulat, Andreas Ickstadt, und Martin Ullrich. Würzburg, 2005.
        • Ullrich2005 Datei
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    (2) Recordings of Animal Sounds in Human Music

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        Dec 9th. History of Sound Recording, Sound archives (field recordings)

        Reading:

        Chpt. 3: Staging Sterile Sound: Producing and Reproducing Natural Field Recordings, in: Bruyninckx, Joeri: Listening in the Field. Recording and the Science of Birdsong (Inside technology), Cambridge/MA 2018, p. 57-92. 

        Look up one of these databases:
        who is the host – history – what does it contain – special features

        Macaulay Library (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) – Tatjana
        Raymond M. Schaefer: World Soundscape Project – Mehves
        (Bernie Krause: Wild Sanctuary)
        xeno-canto – Daniel
        Frog-ID – Nils
        Tierstimmenarchiv, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin – Sophie 

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        Dec 17th + 23rd. Whale Song

        • Whale Song – Study Material Verzeichnis

          Payne, Roger S./McVay, Scott: „Songs of Humpback Whales“, in: Science 173/3997 (1971): p. 585–597.

          Rothenberg, David: Thousand Mile Song. Whale Music in a Sea of Sound, New York 2010, p. 25–49.

          Payne, Roger: Songs of the Humpback Whale [LP-Booklet], CRM Records swr 11 (1970).

          Bill Haney: A Life Among Whales, Uncommon Productions llc 2005. [You find the film in nextcloud.]

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    (3) Interaction with Living Animals

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    Nov 25th. Public Climate School: Animals in climate-related music

    Why does animal music or music with animals or animal sounds matter in the context of climate debate?

    Preliminary program:

    Daniel: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
    Mehves: Analysis of an extinct bird song 
    Sophie: extinction in Pop Music (e.g. Bejoncée)
    Nils: Bernie Krause 

    each presentation about 10-15 min + 5-10 min discussion 
    Introduction and Wrap-Up by Susanne

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    You find the whole program of the Public Climate School at: https://publicclimateschool.de/veranstaltungen-2/

    You are heartly invited to join the other two sessions that our University has opened up for the Public Climate School:

    Prof. Dr. Martin Ullrich, 25.11.2025, 09:00 – 10:30 

    Feels Like Summer: Musik und Klimawandel

    https://kunsthochschule-bayern.zoom-x.de/j/64108066575?pwd=wxX2BtfLkNy5itgZaQSx2a86GaeNsv.1

    Meeting-ID: 641 0806 6575

    Kenncode: 832331

    Prof. Jeremias Schwarzer, 26.11.2025, 11:00 – 11:45 

    Creative Ecology: Wie lassen sich Kreativität und Ökologie verbinden?

    https://kunsthochschule-bayern.zoom-x.de/j/84298827090?pwd=YXhyemlGS1hzdVdMcEk0ZC94MzlyQT09

    Meeting-ID: 842 9882 7090
    Kenncode: 765431

    • Info Monas Collective Pleinair March 2026 Datei
    • Proposed works and literature about animal sounds and climate crisis: Verzeichnis

      Marcus Coates: Apology to the Great Auk (2017), www.workplacegallery.co.uk/artists/9-marcus-coates/works/10309/  
      Sally McIntyre: Huia Transcriptions 
      Bowerbirdcollective: Songs of Disappearance, https://songsofdisappearance.com/
      Robert Coleman: Ecological Sound Walks, https://www.robertcolemancomposer.com/
      Daivd Monacchi: Eco-acoustic theatre
      Bernie Krause: Niche hypothesis

      Further Reading (and possibilities to find more works):

      (Click on the top line to find pdfs that are not directly linked below.)

      • Gilmurray, Jonathan. „Ecological Sound Art“. In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies, ed. by Michael Bull and Marcel Cobussen. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501338786.
      • Gilmurray, Jonathan. „Ecology and Environmentalism in Contemporary Sound Art“. PhD Thesis, London University of the Arts, 2018. https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/13705/. (Chpt. 1.4.5: Extinct and endangered species, p. 50–52)
      • Nauck, Gisela. „Climate Music im Anthropozän. Von der Notwendigkeit neuer Erzählungen“. Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Nr. 1 (2023): 16–21.
      • Bianchi, Frederick W., and V. J. Manzo (Eds.). Environmental Sound Artists. In Their Own Words. Oxford University Press, 2016.
      • Beimdieke, Sara, and Julian Caskel, (Eds.) Musik und Klimawandel. Künstlerisches Handeln in Krisenzeiten. Musik und Klangkultur, Band 67. Transcript, 2025.
      • Nauck, Gisela, Raphael Börger, Martina Brandorff, Gina Emerson, Manuel Rivera, and Christian Thorau (Eds.). Klima – Klang – Transformation. Neue Diskurs- und Erfahrungsräume zwischen Musik und Wissenschaft. Musik und Klangkultur 77. Transcript, 2025. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/08/07/2f/oa9783839400678FkOnBVcctwxZC.pdf.
    • Beimdieke/Caskel: Musik und Klimawandel Datei
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    Final Discussion, Student Papers

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    Tierstudien: Tiere in der Klimakatastrophe

    Call for Papers: „Tiere in der Klimakatastrophe“

    You are invited to co-author an article. Definite commitment is expected with abstract submission.

    Preliminary Schedule:
    December: brainstorming
    January: writing the abstract (submission: Feb 1st, 2.000 characters)
    Feb/March 15th: writing of individual parts
    March 15th/April: merging a coherent text
    May: corrections, finalization (submission: June 1st, 25.000 ch.)