Deprived of such experience, chaffinches and song sparrows produce an extremely impoverished version of the adult song; some finches may develop a song more characteristic of another species if that is what they heard during this period of their life.
He won a scattering of small, mostly uncredited roles and eventually developed a song and dance routine he performed in clubs in New York.
Once she arrived, she and Mabe developed a song about overcoming life's obstacles inspired by their personal struggles in the music industry.
If I like a melodic idea that Ryan [Merchant] has come up with I'll take it and maybe apply some different chords to it and change the melody up a little bit, so it's very much a fifty-fifty collaboration where we just riff off of each other's ideas and develop a song in that way.
As the band took a ten-day break in April, Grohl thought that the record needed another uptempo song, so he spent his time developing an unfinished song that became "The Pretender".
Moreover, among chaffinches and certain other species, even if a young bird hears no song at all it will still develop a crude song that has recognizable features of the full, species-typical one.
Three songs in and I found myself contemplating the impossible: was I developing a full-blown song-crush on Angus & Julia Stone?
In a somewhat gimmicky appropriation of Josephine Baker's life story, for example, Lizzie moves north, transforms herself into a Harlem chorine, then high-tails it to Paris, where she takes the music-hall scene by storm, develops a signature song "honoring her dual nations" and ends up spying for the French Resistance.
However, because differences in repertoire plasticity and learning programmes among populations have not been studied in detail, the possibility that different populations of the same species may develop a different song learning programme may have been overlooked.
