Lullaby

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A lullaby (also known as a sleep song or bedtime song ) is a variant of the evening song that is mainly sung to children before they go to sleep. It is characterized by the fact that it has a calm and drowsy melody and is sung slowly. The oldest written evidence for lullabies in German comes from the 13th and 14th centuries, but their content was not suitable for children. The first heyday came in the 15th and 16th centuries, but most of the songs known today only date back to the 18th and 19th centuries.

Well-known German-language lullabies

Good evening, good night, sung by Ernestine Schumann-Heink (recording: 1915)

A special form is the "spiritual cradle song", a form of Christmas song , the on originating from the Middle Ages custom of " child weighing back", symbolic the newborn in the baby Jesus is sung to sleep. Examples are:

Foreign lullabies

England
Japan
New Zealand
Wales

See also

literature

Collections

Secondary literature

Web links

Commons : Lullaby  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Lullaby  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Simone Falk: Music and language prosody: Child-directed singing in early language acquisition. Walter de Gruyter, 2010. ISBN 978-3-11-021990-6 . P. 71
  2. E. Goretzki, D. Krickenberg: The lullaby "by Mozart". In: Communications from the International Mozarteum Foundation. Salzburg, July 1988, p. 114 ff.
  3. ^ Franz Magnus Böhme: German children's song and children's game. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1897, p. 10 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  4. Arnold Blöchl: Melodiarium to Wilhelm Paillers Christmas and Krippenlieder collection (= Corpus musicae popularis Austriacae, Volume 13). Böhlau, Wien 2000, ISBN 3-205-99123-0 , p. 464 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  5. ^ Lutz Röhrich : "Drey even beautiful New Weyhnacht-Gesänglein" in an Augsburg pamphlet from the 17th century. In: Ders .: Collected writings on folk song and ballad research. Waxmann, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-8309-1213-7 , p. 388 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  6. Walter Pötzl : The little baby weighing - the oldest Christmas custom ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landkreis-augsburg.de 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. In: Customs. From St. Martin's goose to Leonhardiritt, from cradle to grave. Augsburg 1999, pp. 37-39.