Ode to a Nightingale - Instructions




Ode to a Nightingale - Instructions

OTAN can be read with audio accompaniment. In order to listen and read at the same time, you must have the following:

  • Either a print-out of the story in your hands or the story on your computer screen.

  • A copy of the correct version of the song, as specified in the notes on the main page. I highly recommend purchasing a copy of each of the albums listed below, as they are excellent additions to your music collection.

    • Bonafide - Maxi Priest
    • Brown Sugar - D'Angelo
    • The Distance to Here - Live
    • The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
    • Dummy - Portishead
    • Erotica - Madonna
    • Eve 6 - Eve 6
    • Faith - George Michael
    • Grace - Jeff Buckley
    • Little Earthquakes - Tori Amos
    • Surfacing - Sarah McLachlan
    • This Fire - Paula Cole
    • Violator - Depeche Mode
    • Warm Up the Gong - Rockwell Church (mp3 of "She Hung the Moon" is available at their website)
    • Women in Technology - White Town

  • Enough time apart from distractions to read and listen at the same time.


Instructions

  1. Cue the music, make sure it is on �Pause� before you begin reading.
  2. Bring up/place the story in front of you.
  3. �Play� music.


The fiction can, of course, be read without the musical accompaniment, but the experience is not the same.


I would like to credit a Haverford graduate from the Class of 2002 for the inspiration for this series. I attended a recital he gave as part of a senior project in which he played the piano while the audience was shone the text of �The Masque of the Red Death� by Edgar Allan Poe, projected onto a screen on the stage. He kept perfect time on his piano as we read the words and the �incidental� music elegantly captured the terror and dread that the prose engendered. Bravo, young man! Well done.



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