Editing Common nightingale (section)

==Cultural depictions==
[[File:KOCIS_Korea_Changyeonggung_Morning_Gukak_20130817_01_(9558347741).jpg|thumb|right|''Dance of Spring Nightingale'' depicting movement of a nightingale, a solo Korean court dance]]
* The ''Aēdōn'' ({{langx|grc|Ἀηδών}}, "Nightingale") is a minor character in [[Aristophanes]]'s 414 BC [[Attic comedy]] ''[[The Birds (play)|The Birds]]''.
* [[Philomela]] is transformed into a nightingale, according to ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' (book VI) 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 literature|Persian]], [[Urdu literature|Urdu]] and [[Turkish literature|Turkish poetry]].<ref name=Diba2001>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Diba|first=Layla S.|title=Gol o bolbol|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica|year=2001|volume=11|pages=52–57|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/gol-o-bolbol|access-date=15 November 2013|editor-first=Ehsan|editor-last=Yarshater|editor-link=Ehsan Yarshater|publisher=Routledge|location=London and New York}}</ref>
* "[[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 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 6]] (1808), the "Pastoral Symphony", includes in its second movement [[flute]] imitations of nightingale calls.
*A nightingale (called by its French name rossignol) features prominently in the French [[folk song]] [[À la claire fontaine]]
* [[Franz Liszt]]  featured the nightingale's song in the [[Mephisto Waltzes]] No. 1.
* [[John Keats]]'s "[[Ode to a Nightingale]]" (1819) was described by [[Edmund Clarence Stedman]] as "one of our shorter English lyrics that still seems to me&nbsp;... the nearest to perfection, the one I would surrender last of all"<ref>{{Citation | last = Stedman | first = Edmund C. | author-link = Edmund Clarence Stedman | title = Keats | journal = The Century | volume = XXVII | pages = 600 | year = 1884 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=XLWqByOcRjwC&pg=PA600 }}</ref> and by [[Algernon Charles Swinburne]] as "one of the final masterpieces of human work in all time and for all ages".<ref>{{Citation | last = Swinburne | first = Algernon Charles | author-link = Algernon Charles Swinburne | year = 1886 | title = Miscellanies | pages = 221 | chapter = Keats | place = New York | publisher = Worthington Company | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=UHsRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA211 | access-date = 2008-10-08}}. Reprinted from the ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]''.</ref>
* The beauty of the nightingale's song is a theme in [[Hans Christian Andersen]]'s story "[[The Nightingale (fairy tale)|The Nightingale]]" from 1843.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/TheNightingale_e.html|title=Hans Christian Andersen : The Nightingale|website=www.andersen.sdu.dk}}</ref>
* 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]]'' (''{{lang|it|Pini di Roma}}'').
* [[Igor Stravinsky]] based his first opera, ''[[The Nightingale (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 (composer)|Joseph Lamb]] wrote a rag called "Ragtime Nightingale" that was intended to imitate the nightingale calls.<ref>[http://www.perfessorbill.com/pbmidi2.shtml#nightingale Ragtime Nightingale] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100814021226/http://www.perfessorbill.com/pbmidi2.shtml |date=2010-08-14 }}</ref>
* "[[A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (song)|A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square]]" (1939) was one of the most popular songs in Britain during World War II. In 2004, the song was featured in an episode of series 2 of the Channel 4 sitcom ''[[Peep Show (British TV series)|Peep Show]]'' and in 2019, it featured as the closing song of the Amazon/BBC miniseries ''[[Good Omens (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."
* In the works of [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], nightingales are closely associated with the characters [[Lúthien and Beren|Lúthien Tinúviel]] and her mother, [[Melian (Middle-earth)|Melian]].
* A nightingale is depicted on the [[Obverse and reverse|reverse]] of the Croatian 1 [[Croatian kuna|kuna]] coin, minted between 1993 and 2009.<ref>[http://www.hnb.hr/novcan/kovanice/e1kuna.htm?tsfsg=2f8fb802e4db3c45c05d9feb07991fe6 1 Kuna Coin] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090622005600/http://www.hnb.hr/novcan/kovanice/e1kuna.htm?tsfsg=2f8fb802e4db3c45c05d9feb07991fe6 |date=June 22, 2009 }}. – Retrieved on 31 March 2009.</ref><ref>[https://www.vecernji.hr/biznis/trgovci-zarade-2-milijuna-kn-godisnje-ne-vracajuci-1-lipu-1001205]</ref>
*Nightingale was an inspiration of the creation of a [[Korean dance|Korean court solo dance]] [[Chunaengjeon]] (춘앵전). The dance initially was performed by a female dancer 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 featured in a song on the album.
*The song of the nightingale is one of the main elements in the 2019 single "[[Let Nature Sing]]".
*An operator in the mobile video game ''[[Arknights]]'' is named after it.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Arknights: Nightingale|url=https://gamepress.gg/arknights/operator/nightingale|website=Gamepress.gg|language=en}}</ref>

=== In the Baha'i Faith ===
The nightingale is used symbolically in the [[Baháʼí Faith|Baha'i Faith]] to represent the founder [[Baháʼu'lláh|Baha'u'llah]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bahá'í Reference Library - Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, Pages 264-270|url=https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/GWB/gwb-125.html.utf8?query=nightingale&action=highlight#gr10|access-date=2021-01-21|website=reference.bahai.org}}</ref> Baha'is utilise this metaphor to convey how Baha'u'llah's writings are of beautiful quality, much like how the nightingale's singing is revered for its beautiful quality in Persian music and literature.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sweet essence of Iran|url=https://gulfnews.com/entertainment/arts-culture/sweet-essence-of-iran-1.1336853|access-date=2021-01-21|website=gulfnews.com|date=22 May 2014 |language=en}}</ref>

Nightingales are mentioned in much of Baha'u'llah's works, including the [[Tablet of Ahmad (Arabic)|Tablet of Ahmad]], [[The Seven Valleys]], The [[Hidden Words]], and the untranslated Tablet of the Nightingale and the Owl.