Composing with BIRDSONG @themusicprofessor
Composing with BIRDSONG  @themusicprofessor
Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Matthew King discusses how music can represent the natural environment, and explains the origins of his Pastoral Sonata I in a piano miniature (which he plays) called 'When Birds do Sing, Hey Ding a Ding Ding', composed during Lockdown in 2020.

Matthew King: 'When Birds do Sing, Hey Ding a Ding Ding' (also the opening of Pastoral Sonata I)

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