page_title: Common nightingale
section_title: Cultural depictions
hierarchical_section_title: Common nightingale / Cultural depictions
caption_attribution_description: Morning of Changgyeonggung The annual early-morning gugak concert initiated by the National Gugak Center 2013.08.17. Changgyeonggung, Seoul -Related Korea.net Articles- Early birds flock to palace on Saturday morning www.korea.net/NewsFocus/Culture/view?articleId=111615 Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Korean Culture and Information Service Korea.net(www.korea.net) JEON HAN 이른 아침 고궁에서 국악에 빠지다 국립국악원 고궁 아침 국악 공연 ‘창경궁의 아침’ ‘이른 아침 고궁에서 국악에 빠지다’ www.kocis.go.kr/koreanet/view.do?seq=1939 창경궁(昌慶宮), 서울 문화체육관광부 해외문화홍보원 코리아넷 전한
context_page_description: The common nightingale, rufous nightingale or simply nightingale, is a small passerine bird 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. It belongs to a group of more terrestrial species, often called chats.
context_section_description: The Aēdōn (Ancient Greek: Ἀηδών, "Nightingale") is a minor character in Aristophanes's 414 BC Attic comedy The Birds.
  Philomela is transformed into a nightingale, according to Metamorphoses (book IV) of Ovid.
  The love of the nightingale (a conventional cultural substitution for the Persian bulbul) for the rose is widely used as a metaphor for the poet's love for the beloved and the worshiper's love for God in classical Persian, Urdu and Turkish poetry.
  "The Owl and the Nightingale" (12th or 13th century) is a Middle English poem about an argument between these two birds.
  "When The Nightingale Sings" is a Middle English love poem, extolling the beauty and lost love of an unknown maiden.
  "Laüstic", a lai by French poet Marie de France from High Middle Ages (1100-1300)
  John Milton's sonnet "To the Nightingale" (1632–33) contrasts the symbolism of the nightingale as a bird for lovers, with the cuckoo as the bird that called when wives were unfaithful to (or "cuckolded") their husbands.
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem", printed in 1798, disputes the traditional idea that nightingales are connected to the idea of melancholy.
  Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 (1808), the "Pastoral Symphony", includes in its second movement flute imitations of nightingale calls.
  Franz Liszt  featured the nightingale's song in the Mephisto Waltzes No. 1.
  John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" (1819) was described by Edmund Clarence Stedman as "one of our shorter English lyrics that still seems to me... the nearest to perfection, the one I would surrender last of all" and by Algernon Charles Swinburne as "one of the final masterpieces of human work in all time and for all ages".
  The beauty of the nightingale's song is a theme in Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Nightingale" from 1843.
  A recording of nightingale song is included, as directed by the score, in "The Pines of Janiculum", the third movement of Ottorino Respighi's 1924 symphonic poem Pines of Rome (Pini di Roma).
  Igor Stravinsky based his first opera, The Nightingale (1914), on the Hans Christian Andersen story and later prepared a symphonic poem, The Song of the Nightingale (1917), using music from the opera.
  In 1915, Joseph Lamb wrote a rag called "Ragtime Nightingale" that was intended to imitate the nightingale calls.
  "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" (1939) was one of the most popular songs in Britain during World War II. In 2004, the song featured in an episode of series 2 of the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show and in 2019, it featured as the closing song of the Amazon/BBC miniseries Good Omens.
  Both Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's novel Good Omens and the aforementioned miniseries adaptation joke that, "...while they were eating, for the first time ever, a nightingale (sang/actually did sing) in Berkeley Square. Nobody heard it over the noise of the traffic, but it was there, right enough."
  A nightingale is depicted on the reverse of the Croatian 1 kuna coin, minted since 1993.
  Nightingale was an inspiration of the creation of a Korean court solo dance Chunaengjeon (춘앵전). The dance initially was performed by male dance of the court of Joseon Dynasty, Mudong.
  In Chapter 13 of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the monster compares Safie's singing voice to that of a "nightingale in the woods".
  Manfred Mann's Earth Band's sixth album, 1975's Nightingales & Bombers, took its title from a World War II naturalist's recording of a nightingale singing in a garden as warplanes flew overhead. The recording is feature in a song on the album.
  The song of the nightingale is one of the main elements in the 2019 single "Let Nature Sing".
caption: Dance of Spring Nightingale depicting movement of a nightingale, a solo Korean court dance
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