Similarly many species of birds and whales learn their songs by imitating other members of their species.

Darwin proposes sexual selection, driven by competition between males for mates, to explain sexually dimorphic features such as lion manes, deer antlers, peacock tails, bird songs, and the bright plumage of some male birds.

" Pfingsten, das liebliche Fest ", speaks of Pentecost as a time of greening and blooming in fields, woods, hills, mountains, bushes and hedges, of birds singing new songs, meadows sprouting fragrant flowers, and of festive sunshine gleaming from the skies and coloring the earth-iconic lines idealizing the Pentecost holidays in the German speaking lands.

Oscines have the best control of their syrinx muscles among birds, producing a wide range of songs and other vocalizations ( though some of them, such as the crows, do not sound musical to human beings ); some such as the lyrebird are accomplished imitators.

Lyrebirds render with great fidelity the individual songs of other birds and the chatter of flocks of birds, and also mimic other animals such as koalas and dingos.

The Sirens of Greek mythology are often confused with the GorgonsGorgonsportrayed in later folklore as half women-half birds, ( birds sing beautiful, enchanting songs, like the sirens are portrayed to do ); the fact that in Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Portuguese the word for mermaid is respectively Sirena, Sirène, Sirena, Syrena, Sirenă and Sereia, and that in biology the Sirenia comprise an order of fully aquatic mammals that includes the dugong and manatee, add to the visual confusion, so that Sirens are even represented as mermaids.

This style of poetry seems to be attached to early troubadours from Gascony and was characterised by references to nature: leaves, flowers, birds, and their songs.

While almost all living birds give calls of some sort, well-developed songs are only given by a few lineages outside the songbirds.

Other birds ( especially non-passeriforms ) sometimes have songs to attract mates or hold territory, but these are usually simple and repetitive, lacking the variety of many oscine songs.

How he obtained his information varied: sometimes, like the oracles, he would receive visions ; other times he would listen for the songs of birds, or ask for a description of visions and pictures appearing within the smoke of burnt offerings, and so interpret them.

Editor's Recommendation also includes the lyrics " the serpent often hisses where the sweet birds do sing " and " my hands are stained with thistle milk " in the songs " On Passing Lilac Urine " and " Lark Descending ", respectively.

He taught birds their songs.

Sagan and his associates assembled 116 images and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind, thunder and animals ( including the songs of birds and whales ).

He began to travel widely, to attend musical events and to seek out and transcribe the songs of more exotic birds in the wild.

** From Me To You ( 2008 ) ( with birds songs )

They have more elaborate calls than most birds, and often extravagant songs given in display flight ( Kikkawa 2003 ).

Simillary to a couple of songs from A Farewell to Kings, the birds heard on the track " The Trees " were recorded outside near Rockfield Studios.

The birds are the opposite to Time ; they are our desire for light, for stars, for rainbows, and for jubilant songs.

They are best known for the habit of some species mimicking the songs of other birds and the sounds of insects and amphibians, often loudly and in rapid succession.

Thus, one of Bridger's stories involved a " petrified forest " in which there were " petrified birds " singing " petrified songs " ( though he may have seen the petrified trees in the Tower Junction area of what is now Yellowstone National Park ).

" The chorus describes how " the mountain's got a way of its own, and no flatlander can go it alone, where petrified birds sing petrified songs and the rattlesnakes lie over 10-feet long, and it's a hard life of toil in a dangerous world, and it ain't always peaches and pearls.

The appearance of these birds is very varied, but they mostly have weak songs and harsh calls.

These songs ( practically all Persian music, for that matter ) are limited to a range of two octaves.

There are times when one suspects that the songs that are dropped from musical shows before they reach Broadway may really be better than many of those that are left in.

Altogether fifteen virtually unknown Rodgers and Hart songs are sung by a quintet of able vocalists.

For this story of an American couple who meet and fall in love in Israel, Mr. Herman has written songs that are warmly melodious and dance music that sparkles.

Almost all songs on the band's albums are credited to " Woolfson / Parsons ".

Containing a message that forgiveness and redemption are possible regardless of sins committed and that the soul can be delivered from despair through the mercy of God, " Amazing Grace " is one of the most recognizable songs in the English-speaking world.

Primitive Baptists in the Appalachian region often used " New Britain " with other hymns, and sometimes sing the words of " Amazing Grace " to other folk songs, including titles such as " In the Pines ", " Pisgah ", " Primrose ", and " Evan ", as all are able to be sung in common meter, of which the majority of their repertoire consists.

These praise songs are probably the same performed at Matilda's coronation, but might have been used at other court ceremonies before Ealdred's death.

Many American folk songs are identical to British songs in arrangements, but with new lyrics, often as parodies of the original material.

Work songs sung by sailors between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries are known as sea shanties.

Shakers today are most known for their cultural contributions ( especially style of music and furniture ). The Shakers composed thousands of songs, and also created many dances ; both were an important part of the Shaker worship services.

Notable among a number of songs commonly played and sung at various events such as commencement, convocation, and athletic games are: Stand Up and Cheer, the Acadia University fight song.

Notable among a number of fight songs commonly played and sung at various events such as commencement, convocation, and athletic games are: the Acadia University alma mater set to the tune of " Annie Lisle ".

Only two songs are in circulation from these recordings: " Steal Away " and " Operator ".

He composed also a number of different works including many art songs in different languages and a number of important piano pieces, like the five " Doloras " ( 1914 ), which he later orchestrated and are normally played in concerts in Chile and Latinamerica.

Settings of aphoristic poetic utterances, the songs are accompanied by a very large orchestra.

An alternate viewpoint is that limiting praise to the unaccompanied chant of the early church is not commanded in scripture, and that the churches in any age are free to offer their songs with or without musical instruments.

Although they are generally classified as a cappella metal, the band also includes a drummer, and use amplifiers on some songs to distort the voice to sound more like a real guitar.

Many pop songs are used as anthems, such as Queen's " We Are the Champions ", which is commonly used as a sports anthem.

Many songs have been written to teach phonemic awareness and they are usually referred to as alphabet songs.

There are also songs that go through the alphabet, making each letter stand for something in the process.