Thirty Birds

A recording of Kitty Mazarine’s fuging-tune ‘Thirty Birds’ performed by Crossrow’s New Dawn Chorus.

I’m Reading…

The story says Kitty Mazarine composed this from an unknown melody she learned after dreaming of mirrors. A more obscure retelling claims the mirrors were made of black glass, that she saw not her reflection, but a night-feathered being who stared back with her very own eyes.

I’ve Read…

Four voice lines harmonize before diverging into a complex, almost dissonant, series of countermelodies. Gradually, they drop out until only a single soloist remains. The choir suddenly rejoins to echo her words of reflections and reunion, of dreams dreamt by no one, of worlds beyond the bounds. **Effect: **Wistful Air **Mastery: **Lesson: Sky Stories

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