Some birds sing with rhythm like jazz masters

• Autores: Michael Le Page
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3134, 2017, pág. 11
• Idioma: inglés
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  • It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing, goes the Duke Ellington song. By that logic, some bird songs really do mean something. At least a few bird species can swing in the same way that human musicians do, New Scientist can reveal. This claim has been made on the basis of a mathematical analysis of the songs of the thrush nightingale. Not all the musicians New Scientist spoke to agreed what the thrush nightingale is doing can be called swing - but several said they have heard other birds that definitely do swing. In the narrowest sense, swing means delaying the offbeat, so pairs of notes are played long- short rather than being of equal duration. This kind of swing is typical of jazz and related styles of music.