Bird Song Classification Based on Improved Bi-LSTM-DenseNet Network

Topoi in der Musik Béla Bartóks

Studia Musicologica ◽

10.1556/smus.54.2013.3.3 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 54 (3) ◽

pp. 289-299

Author(s):

Jürgen Hunkemöller

Keyword(s):

Bird Song ◽

Musical Analysis ◽

Piano Concerto ◽

The Third ◽

Different Types ◽

Important Means

The recognition of topoi, i.e. traditional formulae, is an important means of musical analysis. To illustrate this, the paper discusses the types of the battaglia and the pastoral in Bach’s Cantata Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ, and briefly enumerates different types of allusions to jazz in 20th-century compositions by Stravinsky, Milhaud, Blacher, Tippet, and Zimmermann. Then it raises the possibility of an analysis of topoi in Bartók’s music in four main categories. It considers Bartók’s musical quotations from Bach to Shostakovich; the chorale as special topos appearing in Mikrokosmos, in the Concerto for Orchestra, in the Adagio religioso of the Third Piano Concerto; the topos-like employment of the tritone; and finally the idea of a Bartókian Arcadia in the Finale of Music for Strings, and the integration of bird song in the Adagio religioso.

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Bird sounds in nature writing: Human perspective on animal communication

Sign Systems Studies ◽

10.12697/sss.2009.37.3-4.11 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 37 (3/4) ◽

pp. 580-613 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Kadri Tüür

Keyword(s):

Present Article ◽

Nature Writing ◽

Animal Communication ◽

Bird Song ◽

Literary Analysis ◽

Human Language ◽

Different Types ◽

Human Interpretation ◽

Object Of Study

The object of study in the present article is birds, more precisely the sounds of birds as they are represented in Estonian nature writing. The evolutionary and structural parallels of bird song with human language are reviewed. Human interpretation of bird sounds raises the question, whether it is possible to transmit or “translate” signals between the Umwelts of different species. The intentions of the sender of the signal may remain unknown, but the signification process within human Umwelt can still be traced and analysed. By approaching the excerpts of nature writing using semiotic methodology, I attempt to demonstrate how bird sounds can function as different types of signs, as outlined by Thomas A. Sebeok. It is argued that the zoosemiotic treatment of nature writing opens up a number of interesting perspectives that would otherwise remain beyond the scope of traditional literary analysis.

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Bird song variations along an urban gradient: The case of the European blackbird (Turdus merula)

Landscape and Urban Planning ◽

10.1016/j.landurbplan.2010.08.013 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 99 (1) ◽

pp. 51-57 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

Solange Mendes ◽

Víctor J. Colino-Rabanal ◽

Salvador J. Peris

Keyword(s):

Bird Song ◽

Urban Gradient ◽

Turdus Merula

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The effect of climate on acoustic signals: Does atmospheric sound absorption matter for bird song and bat echolocation?

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America ◽

10.1121/1.3672695 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 131 (2) ◽

pp. 1650-1658 ◽

Cited By ~ 36

Author(s):

Emilie C. Snell-Rood

Keyword(s):

Sound Absorption ◽

Acoustic Signals ◽

Bird Song ◽

Absorption Matter

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Building a social agenda for the study of bird song

Social Influences on Vocal Development ◽

10.1017/cbo9780511758843.004 ◽

1997 ◽

pp. 41-56 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Meredith J. West ◽

Andrew P. King ◽

Todd M. Freeberg

Keyword(s):

Bird Song ◽

Social Agenda

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The effects of unrelated offspring whistle calls on capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)

Brazilian Journal of Biology ◽

10.1590/1519-6984.25212 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 74 (3 suppl 1) ◽

pp. S171-S176

Author(s):

E Dos Santos ◽

RS Tokumaru ◽

SLG Nogueira Filho ◽

SSC Nogueira

Keyword(s):

Sound Source ◽

Vocal Communication ◽

Bird Song ◽

Playback Experiment ◽

Parental Responsiveness ◽

Hydrochoerus Hydrochaeris ◽

Males And Females ◽

Gender Influences

Parent-offspring vocal communication, such as the isolation call, is one of the essential adaptations in mammals that adjust parental responsiveness. Thus, our aim was to test the hypothesis that the function of the capybara infants' whistle is to attract conspecifics. We designed a playback experiment to investigate the reaction of 20 adult capybaras (seven males and 13 females) to pups' whistle calls – recorded from unrelated offspring – or to bird song, as control. The adult capybaras promptly responded to playback of unrelated pup whistles, while ignoring the bird vocalisation. The adult capybaras took, on average, 2.6 ± 2.5 seconds (s) to show a response to the whistles, with no differences between males and females. However, females look longer (17.0 ± 12.9 s) than males (3.0 ± 7.2 s) toward the sound source when playing the pups' whistle playback. The females also tended to approach the playback source, while males showed just a momentary interruption of ongoing behaviour (feeding). Our results suggest that capybara pups' whistles function as the isolation call in this species, but gender influences the intensity of the response.

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