[Desktop]
Desktop		 ........ [Peter Greenaway]
Peter Greenaway		 ...... [The Falls]
The Falls		...... [Bird List]
The Bird List Song
Recently, John L***** - a librarian - found an unidentified manuscript containing a list of bird names in a UK public library. I knew Casternarm Fallast had compiled a list of 92 bird names which he hoped would one day serve as the libretto for an opera, and that Vassian Falluger had planned to donate a handwritten copy of these 92 bird names to every public library in the UK. I was also aware the 'Bird-List Song', which was recorded on the second anniversary of the VUE, was based on Fallast's libretto. Intrigued by John's find I spoke to him last week and, for the benefit of the ornithologists, music lovers and admirers of Greenaway's work, I have decided to deposit the transcript of our conversation in the VFI's archives. There are two documents:

Transcript of the interview - this explains the notation used in the next document

John L*****'s Bird List Song List



Eleven other works about birds
  1. Telemann's Canary Cantata
  2. Vivaldi's Cuckoo Concerto
  3. Haydn's Hen Symphony
  4. Vaughan Williams's Lark Ascending
  5. Delius's On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
  6. Sibelius's Swan of Tuonela
  7. Respighi's The Birds
  8. Granados's The Nightingale
  9. Saint-Saens's The Swan
  10. Rossini's Thieving Magpie
  11. Harry von Tilzer's A Bird in a Gilded Cage.