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Cultural Entomology
by Dr. Charles Hogue,
Reproduced, with permission, from the Annual Review of Entomology,
Vol 32, copyright; 1987 by Annual Reviews Inc.:
Insects have invaded the world of music to a considerable degree, with composers seizing on various attributes to convey a mood or message. The rapid vibrato of "The Flight of the Bumblebee" (Rimsky-Korsakov) imitates the buzz of the bee; the light of the firefly shines as a beacon to love in "Glow-worm;" and butterflies impart airiness, transience, and frivolity in "Poor Butterfly." The inspiration is less obvious in familiar songs such as "La Cucaracha," "The Boll Weevil," and "The Blue-tailed Fly" and unsung ditties like "Grasshopper Rock" and "Stompin the Bug."
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Insects abound in pictorial arts. They provided motifs for Neolithic artists etching on bone and rendering on rock: numerous insects are depicted in prehistoric petroglyphs and pictographs in Europe, South Africa, and North America. One of the enormous figures laid out on the desert plains of southern Peru by the Nazca Culture (300BC-900AD) is a spider.
И т.д. Пауки кругом. Доктор не в курсе, что пауки - не насекомые.
by Dr. Charles Hogue,
Reproduced, with permission, from the Annual Review of Entomology,
Vol 32, copyright; 1987 by Annual Reviews Inc.:
Insects have invaded the world of music to a considerable degree, with composers seizing on various attributes to convey a mood or message. The rapid vibrato of "The Flight of the Bumblebee" (Rimsky-Korsakov) imitates the buzz of the bee; the light of the firefly shines as a beacon to love in "Glow-worm;" and butterflies impart airiness, transience, and frivolity in "Poor Butterfly." The inspiration is less obvious in familiar songs such as "La Cucaracha," "The Boll Weevil," and "The Blue-tailed Fly" and unsung ditties like "Grasshopper Rock" and "Stompin the Bug."
...
Insects abound in pictorial arts. They provided motifs for Neolithic artists etching on bone and rendering on rock: numerous insects are depicted in prehistoric petroglyphs and pictographs in Europe, South Africa, and North America. One of the enormous figures laid out on the desert plains of southern Peru by the Nazca Culture (300BC-900AD) is a spider.
И т.д. Пауки кругом. Доктор не в курсе, что пауки - не насекомые.
