Just two examples: the genius composition “Flight of the Bumblebee” by Rimsky-Korsakov. the instrumental “Baluchiterium” by Van Halen (now synonymized with Paraceratherium) NB: not environment-themed music, nor music/songs that have a reference to nature just in their title.

Vargsången is a Swedish (I think?) Lullaby about a wolf, this song was featured in the show Ronja the Robber’s Daughter

Ravel and Debussy did many nature themes and they really do sound like their names. Amazing piano songs too. Ravel’s Noctuelles (night moths) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_P44-Q_FXVY&feature=sharec Ravel’ oiseaux tristes (sad birds) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AL0qCOK573Y&feature=sharec Debu…

Eric The Half A Bee The more adventurous might also wish to google some folk metal, for another example.

I think that everything from bands like Wardruna, Heilung, or polish band Ols sounds like a wintery night under snowy mountains.

Lots of ideas in this thread If organisms had theme songs - Nature Talk - iNaturalist Community Forum I wonder if the present thread will go in a different direction.

I am a mole and I live in a hole. The ugly duckling. There was an old lady who swallowed a fly. Arthur Askey recorded a series of invertebrate-themed novelty songs, but this golden age of British popular music came to an end with the arrival of a four-piece Liverpool band in the early 1960s. Desp…

I think Camille Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of Animals is a great fit, the Donkey track is pretty accurate! I’m a bit unclear about what exactly enironmental-themed songs are, can you clarify? Is it excluding: Kids’ songs like: reduce, reuse, recycle Nature-inspired works like: Richard Strauss’ An Alpi…

You got to it before I did. I especially like Le Cygne, which translate to “the swan.” Another good piece is Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. A lot of classical pieces are about swans for some reason.

Sufjan Stevens’ “Lord God Bird” references the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Although it may violate your “not environment-related” criterion, because it mentions “the sewing machine,” alluding to the Singer Tract, where the last known population of Ivory-bills lived.

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Ah. In that case, They Might Be Giants has a few good ones. “Mammal” is one of them.

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