La Souris Couine for voice and piano by Bushra El-Turk published on 2015-11-11T14:51:34Z LA SOURIS COUINE (lack of words by composer) This piece was inspired by a newspaper article I read on October 31st, 2005 about scientists' findings that the utterances of the male mice are actually songs. Here is an excerpt from the article: "In the literature, there's a hierarchy of different definitions for what qualifies as a song, but there are usually two main properties," says lead author Timothy E. Holy, Ph.D., assistant professor of neurobiology and anatomy. "One is that there should be some syllabic diversity—recognizably distinct categories of sound, instead of just one sound repeated over and over. And there should be some temporal regularity—motifs and themes that recur from time to time, like the melodic hook in a catchy tune." The new study shows that mouse song has both qualities, although Holy notes that the ability of lab mice to craft motifs and themes isn't quite on a par with that of master songsmiths like birds. So, I based this piece is based on just the three words, 'La Souris Couine' and play on these words over a repeating Hungarian-like folk tune in the piano. Genre Contemporary Classical
