Music for a Bird (1968) consists of seven short music sessions for recorder exploring the bird-like sonorities of the instrument. It represents the 20th century recorder players efforts to provide the instrument with a larger repertoire than it was given in the Classic and Romantic periods, elucidating upon its uses in contemporary, as well as Medieval and Baroque music.

Composer, HANS MARTIN-LINDE is a Swiss recorder player, flutist, and composer of German birth. He studied the flute with Gustav Scheck and conducting with Konrad Lechner at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik, Freiburg (1947-1951), then became solo flutist of the Cappella Coloniensis of West German radio at Cologne. A chance meeting with August Wenzinger in Cologne led to his appointment to the Schola Cantorum at Basle in 1957 and his joinini the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. He directs the vocal ensemble and in 1971 became joint director of the concert group. His high international reputation as a recorder player and flutist (he plays modern and Baroque flutes), is founded on an impeccable virtuoso technique and a scholarly sense of style. He tours widely and his extensive and important recordings include flute concertos by Leclair, Mozart, Stamitz and Dittersdorf, and recorder concertos by Sammartini, Vivaldi and Naudot. He has recorded early English consort music and Italian chamber music from 1600 with his own Linde-Consort. He and Frans Brueggen make an effective partnership. His compositions are primarily for recorder and flute, and take advantage of his experience as a virtuoso player and his knowledge of extended techniques.