six avian vignettes seeks to explore various textural ideas from a birds-eye point of view. The six scenes are musical depictions of several birds based on their environments as well as how they move and sound. Each scene moves from one to the next, occasionally connected but oftentimes separate. The night, which is heard in the nachtmusik of the first and sixth vignettes, serves to open and close the piece—just as each day of birdsong has, as its precursor and finale, a calm darkness with the quiet hooting of owls.

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