How Birdsong Has Long Inspired Classical Music

For centuries, composers have drawn inspiration from the oldest melody-makers in the world: birds. Take, for instance, the piece "Summer Has Arrived" from the mid-1200s. It features musical references to the cuckoo bird, a species that would continue to inspire Handel, Beethoven and Mahler hundreds of years later. Nashville Public Radio's Kara McLeland has more on the history.