A Dream of Nightingales
| Song Title | A Dream of Nightingales (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Ned Rorem |
| Composer Underrepresented Group | LGBTQ+ (Search) |
| Author(s): | David Bergman |
| Author Underrepresented Group | LGBTQ+; Jewish (Search) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Addressee: Corpses; Addressee: Friends; AIDS Epidemic; Arctic; Beauty; Beckoning; Being; Believing; Birds; Blasts; Caring; Cats; Classes; Creatures; Dark; Death; Drawing; Early; Escaping; Flowering; Flying; Friday; Funerals; Grace; Hearing; Hidden; Holding; Home; Homosexuality; Keats, John; Love; Memory; Music; Nature; Past; Pears; Penetrating; Poetry; Poets; Pure; Rapture; Remembering; Revealing; Scaring; Singing; Smugness; Sophomore; South; Speaker: Teacher; Spring; Teaching; Telling; Thinking; Tight; Truth; Windows; Winged; Winter; Youth |
| First Line | The Friday before your funeral I taught (Search) |
| Average Duration | 3:30 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1992 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | https://songofamerica.net/song/a-dream-of-nightingales/ |
| Larger Work | AIDS Quilt Songbook (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Audio Source | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGk7ov_fXZI |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Baritone or Bass |
| Range: | A2 - E4 (Search) |
| Contributor | GTM , James Allen (Search) |
| Contributor Affiliation | Georgia Southern University (Search) |