The Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos), also known as Rufous and Common Nightingale, is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae. It belongs to a group of more terrestrial species, often called chats.
Culture
-The Nightingale is the national bird of Iran.
-The love of the nightingale to the rose is also widely used, often metaphorically, in Turkish literature (especially in poems of the Ottoman period) as well as in Persian literature.
-John Keats' poem "Ode to a Nightingale" responds to the beauty of the nightingale's song.
-"Know Why the Nightingale Sings" is a song by Nightwish.
-"The Nightingale" is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
-"The Frog and the Nightingale" is a poem by Vikram Seth.
-"The Nightingale" is a story by Hans Christian Andersen
-Le rossignol is an opera by Igor Stravinsky based on the Andersen tale.
-The Nightingale is the national bird of Iran.
-The love of the nightingale to the rose is also widely used, often metaphorically, in Turkish literature (especially in poems of the Ottoman period) as well as in Persian literature.
-John Keats' poem "Ode to a Nightingale" responds to the beauty of the nightingale's song.
-"Know Why the Nightingale Sings" is a song by Nightwish.
-"The Nightingale" is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
-"The Frog and the Nightingale" is a poem by Vikram Seth.
-"The Nightingale" is a story by Hans Christian Andersen
-Le rossignol is an opera by Igor Stravinsky based on the Andersen tale.
-Stravinsky then adapted the opera into a symphonic poem called Le Chant du rossignol.
-The soprano Jenny Lind was nicknamed the Swedish Nightingale.
-In Oscar Wilde's short story "The Nightingale and the Rose", a Nightingale sacrifices itself to create a red rose for a student.
-Ottorino Respighi included a recording of the nightingale's song in the third movement of his symphonic poem The Pines of Rome.
-A Provençal folk song, "The Nightingale Which Flies", inspired Tchaikovsky when composing his Humoresque opus 10-2.
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square is the name of a popular song and film.
"Bianca Among the Nightingales" is a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"The Three Nightingales" was a vaudeville singing trio with the Groucho and Gummo Marx and Mabel O'Donnell.
"Sweet Nightingale" is a Cornish folk song which probably dates from the Seventeenth Century, and is said to be a translation from the ancient Cornish language.
"Persephone" has a song named "the Nightingale's Lament" .
"Sarojini Devi Naidu" was referred to as "the Nightingale of India" for her melliflous voice.
-The soprano Jenny Lind was nicknamed the Swedish Nightingale.
-In Oscar Wilde's short story "The Nightingale and the Rose", a Nightingale sacrifices itself to create a red rose for a student.
-Ottorino Respighi included a recording of the nightingale's song in the third movement of his symphonic poem The Pines of Rome.
-A Provençal folk song, "The Nightingale Which Flies", inspired Tchaikovsky when composing his Humoresque opus 10-2.
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square is the name of a popular song and film.
"Bianca Among the Nightingales" is a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"The Three Nightingales" was a vaudeville singing trio with the Groucho and Gummo Marx and Mabel O'Donnell.
"Sweet Nightingale" is a Cornish folk song which probably dates from the Seventeenth Century, and is said to be a translation from the ancient Cornish language.
"Persephone" has a song named "the Nightingale's Lament" .
"Sarojini Devi Naidu" was referred to as "the Nightingale of India" for her melliflous voice.
