Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 ]
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:
In 2015, British comedian and TV host Alexander Armstrong performed it on his first album, A Year of Songs. [25] On a 2015 bonus episode of the podcast My Brother, My Brother and Me ("The McElroy Family Fun Hour Brought to You by Totino's"), co-host Justin McElroy sang a parody entitled "A Pizza Roll Sang in Berkeley Square." [26]
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 ...
This nightingale's song was pretty, but always the same. The real nightingale, no longer appreciated, flew out of the palace while no one was looking. The emperor placed the artificial nightingale at his bedside and banished the real nightingale for his desertion. The artificial bird sang the emperor to sleep each night until its cogs wore down.
My Nightingale Is Singing was first published in 1959 in the Swedish magazine Vi.In 1960 it was published in the fairy tale collection Nils Karlsson Pyssling. In 1984 Rabén & Sjögren published My Nightingale Is Singing (Spelar min lind, sjunger min näktergal) as a picture book, illustrated by Svend Otto S. [1] English, Danish and German editions of the book followed later.
The word Luscinia was used for nightingales and similar birds in Classical Latin (e.g. in the AD 70s Naturalis Historia by Pliny the Elder), if not earlier. Etymologically, it might be derived from luscus (Latin for "half-blind", "half-understood" etc.) or clueō (Latin for "to be well-known") + (probably) Latin canō "to sing".
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 ...