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

Face masks made of nightingale faeces, used by elite Japanese women for centuries, are one of the stranger beautifying techniques currently resurgent in western salons.

From The Guardian • Nov. 19, 2019

That was mine because I liked that idea that, for once, a nightingale actually did sing in Berkeley Square.

From The Verge • May 30, 2019

That piano had once belonged to Pacheco’s wife, who could play it like a nightingale can sing.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols