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Lullaby by François Nicholas Riss A lullaby (/ ˈ l ʌ l ə b aɪ /), or a cradle song, is a soothing song or piece of music that is usually played for (or sung to) children (for adults see music and sleep). The purposes of lullabies vary. In some societies, they are used to pass down cultural knowledge or tradition.
Lullabies – soothing songs meant to lull children, teens, and adults to sleep. Pages in category "Lullabies" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 ...
Tanya Goodman (singer) for Cedarmont Kids - Lullabies - All Night All Day ; Holly Cole, as "All the Pretty Little Horses", for her 1997 album Dark Dear Heart; Joan Baez on her 1968 album Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time; Jon Crosse, in his 1985 album Lullabies Go Jazz: Sweet Songs for Sweet Dreams, with Clare Fischer, Putter Smith, and Luis ...
Hush, Little Baby" is a traditional lullaby, thought to have been written in the Southern United States. The lyrics are from the point of view of a parent trying to appease an upset child by promising to give them a gift.
Raisins and Almonds" (Yiddish: ראָזשינקעס מיט מאַנדלען, romanized: Rozhinkes mit Mandlen) is a traditional Jewish lullaby popularized in the arrangement by Abraham Goldfaden (1840-1908) for his 1880 Yiddish musical, "Shulamis". [1] [2] It has become so well known that it has assumed the status of a classic folk song.
"Hush-a-bye baby" in The Baby's Opera, A book of old Rhymes and The Music by the Earliest Masters, ca. 1877. The rhyme is generally sung to one of two tunes. The only one mentioned by the Opies in The Oxford Book of Nursery Rhymes (1951) is a variant of Henry Purcell's 1686 quickstep Lillibullero, [2] but others were once popular in North America.
The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1] The first known book containing a collection of these texts was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, which was published by Mary Cooper in 1744 ...
Tàladh Chrìosda (' Christ's lullaby ') is the popular name for the Scottish Gaelic Christmas carol Tàladh ar Slànaigheir (' the Lullaby of our Saviour ').It is traditionally sung at Midnight Mass in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland.