Nocturne (夜曲) by Secret Garden

Nocturne	Nocturne
La dagen få sin hvile nå	Let the day get its rest now
Og natten vil våke for den	And the night will guard in its place
Nocturne	Nocturne
Selv mørket må en gang forgå	Even the darkness must disappear sometime
Så natten kan føde en dag	So the night can give birth to a day

Nocturne (Secret Garden)

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Nocturne
Eurovision Song Contest 1995 entry
Country	Norway
Artist(s)	Gunnhild Tvinnereim, Fionnuala Sherry, Rolf Løvland
As	Secret Garden
Language	Norwegian
Composer(s)	Rolf Løvland
Lyricist(s)	Petter Skavland
Place	1st
Points	148
Lyrics	from Diggiloo Thrush

"Nocturne" was the winning song in the Eurovision Song Contest 1995, performed in Norwegian by Secret Garden representing Norway.

The song is unusual for its relative absence of lyrics - with only 25 words being sung in the original Norwegian version and much of the rest of the song being given over to a violin intermezzo performed by guest Irish musician Fionnuala Sherry. While no other victorious song has featured so few words, Finland would go on to place 15th in the 1998 Contest with "Aava", which contains only six words repeated throughout the song. The victory also represented the second for composer Rolf Løvland, who had previously written "La det swinge". Additionally, it represented the first time in four years that Ireland had not won the Contest, thus bringing to an end the only hat-trick of victories in Eurovision history. Ireland would go on to win the next Contest, achieving the feat of four victories in five years.

Both lyrically and musically, the song owes a debt to the New Age genre. Vocalist Gunnhild Tvinnereim sings that night and day are complementary to each other, and that their progress is natural.

As Norway had previously won the Contest in 1985 with "La det swinge", the second victory allowed the tongue-in-cheek tradition to emerge that Norway could only win in years ending with a 5, a joke referred to by the members of Bobbysocks at the Congratulations special in late 2005, Norway having entered "In My Dreams" that year and not achieved victory.

The song was performed fifth on the night (following Bosnia and Herzegovina's Davor Popović with "Dvadeset prvi vijek" and preceding Russia's Philip Kirkorov with "Kolibelnaya Dlya Vulkana"). At the close of voting, it had received 148 points, placing 1st in a field of 23.

Unusually, "Nocturne" was not released as a single in Norway itself. The first release of the song as a single would come in a comedic cover version by country-inspired band Dusty Cowshit.

The song was succeeded as winner in 1996 by Eimear Quinn representing Ireland with "The Voice".

It was succeeded as Norwegian representative at the 1996 Contest by Elisabeth Andreassen with "I Evighet".

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夜曲

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夜曲是一种形式自由的三段体器乐短曲，一般中段比较激昂，常有沉思、忧郁的特点。格调高雅，充满浪漫色彩，旋律歌唱性很强，也有叫做交响诗的，是富于诗情的短交响乐。由于一般在夜晚演奏，所以叫夜曲。

肖邦写过21首优秀的夜曲，德彪西的交响诗也都是夜曲形式。

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