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While looking for some owl folk songs to sing with my music and nature group, I fell in love with this old song! I first read about it on Mama Lisa's website here. After transcribing it myself from the YouTube video , I found the wonderful Danny Rosevar had already transcribed and recorded it for all of us here ! She has an amazing folk song channel and is such a generous person! I encourage you to follow her videos! In the mean time, you can click my sheet music to download and use if you prefer!  I've included the solfa at the top of the melody!   Other owl songs: Wise Old Owl (echo song) One of these days I look up and see A wise old owl Sittin in a tree He'll look at you And he'll look at me Those two big eyes They don't scare me One of these nights When raindrops fall He'll give a hoot He'll give a call

  In my continuous research on composer study materials, I came across a wonderful article on developing the relationship between young students and the great composers. Franciska Schwimmer wrote the book "Great Musicians as Children" and reminisces in the introduction of the book about her experience as a young pianist. Her teacher, a student of Liszt, imparted a joy and passion for the character qualities of the composers she was studying in her piano repertoire. Her teacher would tell her personal stories about Liszt and other interesting anecdotes about many composers so that the music she played took on a personal quality directly attributed to the connection she felt to these great composers that had lived in the past. When Franciska came to the United States as a piano teacher, she noticed that the American students were very technically talented, but had developed none of the relational quality that she had grown up with as a student.  She writes: "...