DOOLITTLE Emily, Bobolink (extract for Close Up)

A bubbly, chirpy piece that sounds like a bird singing in a meadow! Emily Doolittle is a modern composer writing music today who loves nature, and her music often brings the outdoors to life.  Lots of composers have been inspired by birds: some have created musical pictures of them flying or getting up to adventues, others have tried to write down their beautiful song as if it were human music and get the instruments to do their best bird impressions. What sort of bird music do you think Emily Doolittle is writing here?

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