Four calling birds
By Christopher J Fripp, on 7 December 2018
Four calling birds: and their song in musical notation (‘to to toto to to!’), from Athanasius Kircher’s Musurgia universalis (1650). The parrot, imitating human speech, is saying hello in Greek instead . . .
STRONG ROOM OGDEN A QUARTO 449
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