The Nightingale
Stravinsky's singing bird
A small brownish European songbird celebrated for the male's rich, melodious singing, especially at night during breeding season.
The nightingale has long symbolized poetic inspiration and romantic longing in Western literature: She sang like a nightingale.
Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, took her surname from the bird.
- songbirdMelodious perching avian
- thrushSpotted woodland vocalist
- warblerSmall melodious bird
- melodyPleasing sequence of notes
- birdsongAvian musical vocalizations
bird song · nocturnal · Hans Christian Andersen · fairy tale · emperor · China · mechanical · golden · singing · Florence · nurse · Crimean War · Crimea · lamp · Keats · ode · poetry · romantic
- Andersen TalesThe Ugly Duckling, The Snow Queen, Thumbelina, The Wild Swans, ugly duckling
- Romantic PoetryWordsworth, Keats, William Wordsworth, Shelley, Coleridge
- Stravinsky WorksThe Firebird, Apollo, Oedipus Rex, Orpheus, Persephone
- war mediawar films, war footage, war correspondents, war correspondent, war reporting
The Nightingalesymphony
Extended composition for orchestra
grand opera · oratorio · tone poem · The Firebird · chamber music
The Nightingale1984
Dystopian surveillance state tale
A Clockwork Orange · American Psycho · The Road · dystopian fiction
nightingale, night, nights, nightly, nighttime, midnight, overnight, fortnight