| 单词 | birdcall |
| 例句 | I hold up one finger to say Wait, I’ll show you, and whistle a birdcall. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Did the ghosts of Levantine girls haunt those cursory checkups, suggested by the fragility of my collarbone, or the birdcall of my small, congested lungs? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z For a short while the trees beside him grew denser as he walked, and only birdcalls and squirrel rustlings broke the silence. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Inej cupped her hand to her mouth and gave a low, soft birdcall. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z There was a moment, after the birdcall, but before the hovercraft, where the girl had seen us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He also said that Barling stayed up all hours of the night, usually in the kitchen, flipping through books, listening to audio recordings of birdcalls, and speaking his notes into a handheld tape recorder. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The birdcalls grow more frenzied as twilight approaches. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The rhythm of his speech was something between a chant and a birdcall. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The monkey shrieks and birdcalls, the insect scrapings and frog croakings, and the incessant drip-drip of condensing moisture sounded very loud to Will, outside it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z This is especially true when the tune is heard at a fast music-box clip, complete with imitation birdcalls, as dawn breaks in Act II after Butterfly’s long night anticipating Pinkerton’s return. Classical: Puccini Opera Echoes a Music Box at the Morris Museum 2012-06-17T01:03:03Z Its was an artificial jungle, a plastic landscape with oscillators for birdcalls and woofers for roars, and a place for inscrutable ritual. Music Review: The Trippy ?60s in a Guggenheim Time Machine 2010-03-06T08:06:00Z “Amen of the Angels, the Saints and Bird Song” demonstrates Messiaen’s interest in transcribing birdcalls and evoking them with brilliant pianistic effects. CD Review: OLIVIER MESSIAEN: ?Visions de l?Amen? 2010-07-16T15:02:00Z The idiosyncratic colors of individual woodwinds vividly brought to life some of the birdcalls Beethoven wrote into the first movement. Review: American Classical Orchestra Takes on Friedrich Witt 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z As the meditations progress, assertive statements of the mingling motifs are sometimes enshrouded in celestial harmonies and regularly interrupted by skittish birdcalls. Music Review: Jon Gillock Plays Messiaen - Review 2011-11-16T22:40:23Z Under ironed sheets, he taught me rare birdcalls I’d hear later, in real life, on Ulva Island. Modern Love: Diving Deep to Reach the Surface 2010-09-17T20:18:00Z “I just knew it was the birdcall I’d been hearing all my life, at the end of the day, since I was a little child,” she said. With ‘Divers,’ Joanna Newsom Is Clinging to Her Every Word 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z “If I’m out walking in the woods and I hear a birdcall, I try to mimic it,” she said, lamenting that the chats are a little one-sided: “I’ve probably got a terrible accent in ‘bird.’” Whistling as an Art Almost Died Off. Can Molly Lewis Keep It Alive? 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z The concert began with a brief performance by the dancer Johanna Constantine in a costume with pointed, winglike arms, backed by birdcalls and an electronic pulse. Music Review: Antony and the Johnsons at Radio City Music Hall 2012-01-28T01:02:07Z The solution hit him when he was listening to a Prince song while driving, and heard Prince make a wild birdcall sound: ah-oh-wah. Questlove Has a New Creative Pursuit: Publishing 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Though I still wasn’t hearing any truly Alpine echoes, the hoots, bleats and squawks conjured a pleasantly confusing world of birdcalls in which sea gulls seemed to be especially well represented. In Make Music Winter, Critics Find Their Inner Yodelers and Pilgrims 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z The music flows in episodic waves, with sustained brassy harmonies that are like cosmic chorales, bursts of fitful instrumental writing, spans of jagged counterpoint, and — a Messiaen trademark — skittish birdcalls. Music Review: Hamburg Symphony Orchestra at Roulette 2012-01-25T00:10:49Z In others, like the second one played, I heard delicate piano flourishes suggestive of Messiaen birdcalls intriguingly contrasted with elegiac stirrings on the violin. Review: John Zorn Brings Avant-Garde Style to the Stone 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z More interesting were his wave oscillator works: the lilting Still Lives with composer Frank Denyer at the piano, or Bird and Person Dyning with Lucier hooked up to electronic birdcalls and carefully pacing the stalls. Tectonics – review 2013-05-14T18:27:54Z A birdcall is sort of an improvisation, though. The Pianist Taka Kigawa on Playing Messiaen’s Bird Marathon 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Adams was influenced by Minimalism, and individual players in “songbirdsongs” often have a small riff, or cell — a birdcall, a rustle of leaves — that they repeat throughout a movement. Music Review: John Luther Adams ?songbirdsongs? by Le Train Bleu - Review 2011-11-27T22:40:08Z Mr. Gil, 67, whistled, whooped in falsetto phrases, screeched jungle birdcalls, scat-sang like a trombone and plummeted down to sustained, buzzing notes that were both wry and resolute. Music Review | Gilberto Gil: At the Nokia Theater, Complex Colors in Simple Settings 2010-03-13T01:40:00Z The birdcall clacks through the canopy in the Tanzanian bush not far from Lake Eyasi. What’s for Dinner? Probably Not London Porker. 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Ms. Lawler’s 1972-81 audio installation — a humorous fixture of the west garden at Dia:Beacon — features the names of famous male artists shouted in the style of birdcalls. From Aristophanes to Hitchcock, Celebrating Birds and Culture 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z The series explored the uses of birdcalls in music from the 20th and 21st centuries, anchored by the work of Messiaen, the king of birdsong. Music Review: International Contemporary Ensemble at Mostly Mozart 2012-08-13T22:44:48Z Before the last silence, with birdcalls in the woodwinds, there is a spell of absolute fulfillment, of all-embracing spiritual warmth. The Shimmering Magnificence of Jessye Norman 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z The album concludes with “Time, as a Symptom,” which opens with birdcalls and Ms. Newsom alone, singing to stark piano chords. With ‘Divers,’ Joanna Newsom Is Clinging to Her Every Word 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Its set was just as sprawling, touching on improvisational orchestral squall, dissonant chamber-jazz, a kind of parlor song and a musical jungle full of birdcalls. Big Ears Festival: 15 Performances That Soothed, Jolted and Intrigued 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Hunting horns are heard offstage before the “Entry Into the Woods,” in which the clarinet and flute sound birdcalls. Into the Music: Strauss?s ?Alpine Symphony? Played Twice in One Night 2012-04-13T22:20:54Z An Incessant Birdcall, Then Peaceful Fishing No composer has transcribed bird song with more dedication than Messiaen, an ornithological sampling artist whose obsession manifested itself in myriad colorful works evoking birdcalls. Music Review: Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2012-08-14T22:06:47Z He made a recording of birdcalls played on traditional Chinese instruments and formatted the file for cellphones. Review: National Youth Orchestra Impresses With ‘Symphonie Fantastique’ at Carnegie Hall 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z An hour and a half outside town, the main lodge greets you with absolute silence, apart from the occasional birdcall or the rustle of monkeys overhead. A trek to gorilla country in the Congo So she merged them, singing mournfully and then mimicking birdcalls. Music Review: Badi Assad Is a Headliner at New York Guitar Festival 2014-01-21T22:43:03Z Mr. Mirin will have electronic equipment enabling him to layer and repeat loops of sound, but his only real instruments will be recorded birdcalls and his own voice. For Children Listings for Nov. 6-12 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Beginning in the mid-1960s, he began writing pieces for brain waves, birdcalls, electronic devices, resonant bowls and, every so often, standard classical instruments mostly used in unconventional ways. Alvin Lucier, seminal avant-garde composer, dies at 90 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z The buzzer of the building had been rewired to blast native birdcalls; sidewalk passersby often glanced over their shoulders as a bald eagle clucked. Biohackers at the gate: The untold story of how DIY experimenters waged war on COVID-19 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z One morning I wandered off the court in the middle of a netball match to identify some nearby birdcalls and was bewildered by the rage this induced in my team. What Animals Taught Me About Being Human 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z BIG SUR, Calif. — The first thing you notice is the silence, punctured by birdcalls and the far-off roar of water moving through canyons. Big Sur usually can’t keep people away. Right now, it’s practically deserted. 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z He continued moving south, picking through gardens, and eventually reached a region with a familiar distribution of trees, along with a diversity of birdcalls and a temperature range he felt accustomed to. Into the woods: how one man survived alone in the wilderness for 27 years | Michael Finkel 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Against delicate birdcalls on the piano, the cello “sings” a song, from tender to passionate, heartwrenching to heartwarming. Vermont music masters celebrate 40 years 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z They rolled in great clouds of wing and birdcall. The last passenger pigeon : Nature : Nature Research 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z He was very good at identifying birdcalls, something he had learned at Boy Scout camp. Here's Why 'Birdbrain' Should Be a Compliment On Dutch TV last summer, he was shown making birdcalls from a cell in a twenty-foot-tall concrete honeycomb wall that West 8 designed—and then, like a naughty schoolboy, walking along the top. Rise of the Superpark 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Compton flashed a “birdcall” to his teammates — a new defense in reaction to a recognized offensive signal. A Solution for Awful N.F.L. Officiating? Simplify the Rules 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z He doesn't try to spot 700 birds a year or master every birdcall. Birder's Classic, Anew 2014-03-12T21:41:10Z It’s refreshing to see something recognizable as the English countryside, birdcalls, dry stone walls and all. 'Sir, You Are Being Hunted' Preview - Fear, Fens And Milky Tea 2013-08-27T16:35:00Z But the unusual birdcalls, clicks and other curious sounds—not to mention the supersize bugs—quickly dispelled that illusion. Tracking Mountain Gorillas in Uganda 2013-06-07T20:00:04Z Fish are not to be caught by a birdcall. Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words 2012-03-29T02:00:12.730Z An instrument of any kind, as a whistle, used in making the sound of a birdcall. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z As a boy, he went camping in Wisconsin’s Devil’s Lake State Park with his father, an amateur ornithologist who taught him the pleasures of lying in a sleeping bag listening to birdcalls. Is Silence Going Extinct? 2012-03-15T22:17:17Z In the surrounding forest, a homegrown militia toting rifles creeps through the underbrush, signaling the way forward with birdcalls, on daily patrols to protect the timber. In Mexico, forests fall prey to crime mafias 2011-07-06T10:50:00Z The various birdcalls he knew and because he did, he dismissed them as of little consequence. Swamp Cat 2011-03-06T03:00:20.453Z If he could not paint the spring in music, he could at least embroider the score of "Sniegourochka" delightfully with birdcalls and all manner of vernal fancies. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers To the constant sound of birdcalls Ross tramped heavily through small pools, beating a path through tangles of marsh grass. The Time Traders After a minute or two of this, my stomach told me that I wasn't falling, and I couldn't hear any rushing wind, any birdcalls, anything except Mama and Pa laughing, fit to bust. A Place so Foreign Hardly had she finished her work and seen everything nicely cooked before she heard the happy shoutings of her younger brothers, and the sweet birdcalls of her little sisters. Algonquin Indian Tales He manifested no more than this attention, for the birdcall was the signal he had been awaiting. The Spirit of the Border |
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