Nursery rhyme

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The English children's verse Humpty Dumpty as a riddle (with solution), in a picture book by William Wallace Denslow published in 1902

A nursery rhyme is an orally transmitted verse that is taught to young children, especially in kindergarten or by their parents , or that is thought up by themselves.

Intentions

The verse is often melodic or rhythmic spoken or sung, so nursery rhyme and children's song almost indistinguishable. Learning such verses helps children build vocabulary , learn to count , or - in connection with movement - train motor skills . A special case of nursery rhymes are counting rhymes . Children are often presented with verses that were first published in book form. Examples are Struwwelpeter and Max and Moritz . These verses are often intended to guide the children morally . As a nursery rhyme, however, an often completely meaningless form of rhyme (Eene meene, minke manke, pinke panke ...), which can be "drastic, vulgar, corrosive" (disappear like the fart in the wind) , can be called.

English nursery rhymes

English nursery rhymes , called nursery rhymes, are often quoted in pop music . The group Genesis titled their third album, which was released in 1971, Nursery Cryme ; in the opening piece The Musical Box , the children's verse Old King Cole is quoted. All Mama's Children by Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash from 1956 begins with the first verses of There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe . Humpty Dumpty , who is best known for his appearance in Lewis Carroll's Alice Behind the Looking Glass , is among others cited in Aretha Franklin's All the King's Horses (1972) and the Monkees song of the same title, in Billy Joel's The Great Wall of China from 1993 and in Aimee Mann's Humpty Dumpty from 2002.

The line sticks and stones may break my bones in the song S & M by Rihanna also comes from a nursery rhyme, which in the British collection for the first time in 1894 Folk Phrases of Four Countries was published. This rhyme can also be found in the text to Pocketful of Sunshine by Natasha Bedingfield .

Because of the collection called Mother Goose , nursery rhymes have a similar status in the Anglo-American canon to Grimm's fairy tales in German (even if the first book published under this title was by Charles Perrault ). Allusions to children's verses are as common in the English-speaking world as allusions to fairy tales are in German. Works of high literature also allude to children's verses, such as B. Robert Penn Warren's famous novel All the King's Men (1946; allusion to Humpty Dumpty, film versions 1949 and 2006). Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward named their book about the Watergate Affair appropriately All the President's Men (1974; film 1976). In 1981 John Hulme brought out a collection under the title Mörder Guss Reims: The Gustave Leberwurst Manuscripts , in which he underlined the English text of some nursery rhymes with German words and explains the resulting nonsense with pseudoscientific annotations. From Little Miss Muffet ... is liters bad muffelt ... with a note that the speaker lamented be spoiled beer. There is a similar version in pseudo-French.

Modern use

Little Baby Bum (known as LBB) is a YouTube channel that combines the well-known and specially created nursery rhymes with a 3D animation produced for this purpose and serves the visual track. The channel, which has existed in several languages ​​since 2011, enjoys worldwide popularity with over 15 million subscribers. The best known and equally first video is for the rhyme "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" about the star, which also appears as an intro in every LBB video as a brand component. The rhymes that are widespread and often covered on YouTube, such as B. "Johnny, Johnny, Yes, Papa" or "Finger Family (Daddy Finger)"

Other well-known channels that have similar concepts to LBB are ChuChu, ABCkidTV, Dave and Ava, Kids TV, LooLoo Kids, CVS 3D Rhymes, ABC for Kids, BillionSurpriseToys, etc. a.

In addition, YouTube fans produce their own modifications of the nursery rhymes in z. Sometimes elaborately made short films with their own children as protagonists or make digital creations with well-known characters such as Spiderman, Mickey Mouse and the like. a.

List of nursery rhymes (selection)

  • That is the thumb, it shakes the plums (= index finger), it collects them all (= middle finger), it carries them home ' (= ring finger), and the little one eats them all (= little finger).
    • Swiss German : Das isch de Tuume, de schüttlet d Pfluume, de list si uuf, de treit si hei, and de chli chly Luuser eats si completely elei.
  • Hoppe Hoppe Reiter
  • Once upon a time there was a man who had seven children, and the children said: Father, tell us a story. Then the father began, once upon a time there was a man who had ...
  • Knife, fork, scissors and light - are not for small children.
  • We're hungry, hungry, hungry, hungry, hungry, hungry, hungry, hungry, hungry, thirsty. Where is the food, where is the food, where is the food, where is the food, where is the sausage? If we don't get anything, we get, get, we eat flies, flies, flies, we eat flies, flies, flies, off the wall.
  • Beep, beep, beep, we all love each other, we eat what there is, bon appetit!
  • Beep, beep, beep, we love each other, everyone eats as much as he can, except for his neighbor.
  • Beep, beep, beep, we all love each other, everyone eats what he can, just not his neighbor; and if you take it very carefully, not even your concubine; and not the dishes either, otherwise the stomach will clink. If he did eat it, don't forget to brush your teeth.
  • Beep, beep mouse, stay in your house. If you eat my sandwich, the cat will come and bite you to death. Beep, beep, beep, have a good appetite.
  • Here you have a thaler (you put a fictional thaler in the child's palm), go to the market, buy yourself a cow, add a calf, calf has a tail - didldidldänzchen (you crawl the child in the palm).
  • S kunnt (comes) a bear from Constance (you march up the child's leg with your fingers), black and know - he wants to de / d ... (child's name) bite, bite, bite (you pinch the child gently in the chest, nose or cheeks) (from Südbaden).
  • Three Chinese with the double bass
  • As I Was Going to St Ives
  • London Bridge is Falling Down
  • Bake bake cake
  • Heal, heal Gansje

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reinhard Baumgart: Volksgesang, Volksgestank . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1967 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.volksliederarchiv.de
  3. ^ Dean Borgman: Center for Youth Studies - BULLYING OVERVIEW , accessed July 3, 2011
  4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/user/LittleBabyBum
  5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nursery+rhymes