Birds and books

The history of birds has never ceased to intersect with our own and to generate pages and pages of fabulous stories. Discover with La Rêveuse how the bird enriches our own history through music, but also the history of our societies. Birds are present in the culture of many civilizations. They announce the change of seasons and in particular the spring, are good or bad omens, symbolize qualities or often human defects: bird brain, linnet head, silly like a turkey, a goose or a woodcock, talkative like a magpie, etc... For a long time confined to the "little story" and to fables, their history has never ceased to cross ours and to generate pages and pages of fabulous stories, from Pliny the Elder to Buffon and Andersen. Discover how the bird enriches our own history, through music, but also the history of our societies; why were treatises written for the education of young birds in the 18th century, why do we try to teach the animal our music? What is a birdman? A musical conference in images and music that approaches birds through books and music. Florence Bolton, viola da gamba and commentary Benjamin Perrot, theorbo