nightingale

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He laid out the "hard problem" of working out how and why any of the complex operations of brains give rise to conscious experience, such as our emotional response when we hear a nightingale sing.

From BBC • May 25, 2025

Just as the familiar tune “In the Hall of the Mountain King” gradually builds speed “accelerando,” as the compositional notation is known, some birdsong does too, like that of the nightingale.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023

In 1924, the BBC recorded the cellist Beatrice Harrison playing in her garden accompanied by a nightingale.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2020

The book has the line “for the first time ever, a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square.”

From The Verge • May 30, 2019

The music rises into the air with the wings of a nightingale and carries us forward, just when it seems we cannot take another step.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar