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  2. Le chant du rossignol - Wikipedia

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    The first scene shows the Nightingale singing (or in this case, dancing) for the Emperor of China, who is pleased. In the music, the song of the nightingale is chromatic and swooping, it sounds free and natural, like the song of a bird. The second scene introduces the gift of the mechanical nightingale from the Emperor of Japan. All are ...

  3. Common nightingale - Wikipedia

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    The common nightingale, rufous nightingale or simply nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos), is a small passerine bird which is best known for its powerful and beautiful song. It was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae , but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher , Muscicapidae . [ 2 ]

  4. File:Nightingale Recording - Pines of Rome.flac - Wikipedia

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    English: Copy of the original nightingale recording used in Pines of Rome by Ottorino Respighi. Español: Copia de la grabación original del ruiseñor utilizada en Pinos de Roma de Ottorino Respighi.

  5. Birdsong in music - Wikipedia

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    Musicologists such as Matthew Head and Suzannah Clark believe that birdsong has had a large though admittedly unquantifiable influence on the development of music. [2] [3] Birdsong has influenced composers in several ways: they can be inspired by birdsong; [4] they can intentionally imitate bird song in a composition; [4] they can incorporate recordings of birds into their works; [5] or they ...

  6. Bird vocalization - Wikipedia

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    It is generally agreed upon in birding and ornithology which sounds are songs and which are calls, and a good field guide will differentiate between the two. Wing feathers of a male club-winged manakin, with the modifications noted by P. L. Sclater in 1860 [4] and discussed by Charles Darwin in 1871. [5] The bird produces sound with its wings.

  7. One Morning in May (folk song) - Wikipedia

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    The narrator sees a beautiful young woman walking with a soldier, often a grenadier. They walk on together to the side of a stream, and sit down to hear the nightingale sing. The grenadier puts his arm around the young woman's waist and takes a fiddle out of his knapsack. He plays the young woman a tune, and she remarks on the nightingale's song:

  8. Ode to a Nightingale - Wikipedia

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    The nightingale's song within the poem is connected to the art of music in a way that the urn in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is connected to the art of sculpture. As such, the nightingale would represent an enchanting presence and, unlike the urn, is directly connected to nature. As natural music, the song is for beauty and lacks a message of truth.

  9. David Rothenberg - Wikipedia

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    David Rothenberg (born 1962) is a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, with a special interest in animal sounds as music.He is also a composer and jazz musician whose books and recordings reflect a longtime interest in understanding other species such as singing insects by making music with them.