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- noun Plural form of
birdcall .
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Examples
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Sounds such as birdcalls or the ringing of an axe also become sharper prior to stormy weather, as low-lying dense air causes sound waves to bend back toward the earth.
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But out of doors, the "random" sounds of Edgard Varese, Morton Subotnick, and Pauline Oliveros were as normal and therefore accepted as birdcalls, traffic noise, audience chatter, or wine bottles dropped carelessly on cement.
Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010
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But out of doors, the "random" sounds of Edgard Varese, Morton Subotnick, and Pauline Oliveros were as normal and therefore accepted as birdcalls, traffic noise, audience chatter, or wine bottles dropped carelessly on cement.
Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010
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"Turangalila" is overrun with influences and musical symbolism, including the Tristan legend, birdcalls (a life-long preoccupation of the composer), Catholicism (another one), some of the more gruesome imagery of Poe, Indonesian gamelan music, love, exoticism, synaesthesia (the association of particular colors with particular tones or chords) and other sounds of nature.
NSO Review: 'Turangalila's' majestic sweep soars above the flaws 2011
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But out of doors, the "random" sounds of Edgard Varese, Morton Subotnick, and Pauline Oliveros were as normal and therefore accepted as birdcalls, traffic noise, audience chatter, or wine bottles dropped carelessly on cement.
Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010
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But out of doors, the "random" sounds of Edgard Varese, Morton Subotnick, and Pauline Oliveros were as normal and therefore accepted as birdcalls, traffic noise, audience chatter, or wine bottles dropped carelessly on cement.
Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010
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We found Big League Chew, birdcalls and colored bootlaces.
Cator Sparks: J. Crew Conquers The Upper East Side (PHOTOS) Cator Sparks 2010
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But out of doors, the "random" sounds of Edgard Varese, Morton Subotnick, and Pauline Oliveros were as normal and therefore accepted as birdcalls, traffic noise, audience chatter, or wine bottles dropped carelessly on cement.
Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010
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We found Big League Chew, birdcalls and colored bootlaces.
Cator Sparks: J. Crew Conquers The Upper East Side (PHOTOS) Cator Sparks 2010
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But out of doors, the "random" sounds of Edgard Varese, Morton Subotnick, and Pauline Oliveros were as normal and therefore accepted as birdcalls, traffic noise, audience chatter, or wine bottles dropped carelessly on cement.
Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde Rodney Punt 2010
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