Yesterday, I just started reading in earnest the titanic, 5-volume, 3,856-page Oxford History of Western Music by Richard Taruskin. One tidbit I’m particularly tickled by was this account of the origin of the idiom “a little bird told me

Yesterday, I just started reading in earnest the titanic, 5-volume, 3,856-page Oxford History of Western Music by Richard Taruskin. One tidbit I’m particularly tickled by was this account of the origin of the idiom “a little bird told me