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- This powerful night (and early morning, and afternoon…) ritual has been around for thousands of years. The oldest lullaby on record is 4,000 years old and hails from Babylonia.
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A lullaby (/ ˈlʌləbaɪ /), 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.
- Jack Sprat (1639) Jack Sprat wasn’t a person but a type—a 16th-century English nickname for men of short stature. That likely accounts for the opening line, “Jack Sprat did eat no fat, and his wife could eat no lean.”
- Pat-a-cake, Pat-a-cake, Baker’s Man (1698) What first appeared as a line of dialogue in English playwright Thomas D’Urfey’s "The Campaigners" from 1698 is today one of the most popular ways to teach babies to clap, and even learn their own names.
- Baa, Baa, Black Sheep (1744) Although its meaning has been lost to time, the lyrics and melody have changed little since it was first published. Regardless of whether it was written about the trade of enslaved people or as a protest against wool taxes, it remains a popular way to sing our children to sleep.
- Hickory, Dickory Dock (1744) This nursery rhyme likely originated as a counting-out game (like “Eeny Meeny Miny Moe”) inspired by the astronomical clock at Exeter Cathedral.
Jan 21, 2013 · The earliest written evidence of lullabies dates back to the ancient Babylonians - and it seems they have changed little in 4,000 years.
Sep 27, 2021 · The earliest lullabies recorded are from Babylonia, in modern day southern Iraq, where the lullabies are not only songs to help babies sleep but they have characteristics we may find somewhat menacing (Figure 1).
Nov 21, 2019 · But how — and why — did humans create infant-directed songs? In January, Harvard University evolutionary psychologist Max Krasnow and grad student Samuel Mehr published the first formal theory on the origins of lullabies in Evolution and Human Behavior .
The Japanese folk lullaby originates from the village of Takeda near Kyoto. The song focuses on an outcast community at the bottom of the Japanese social order and a young girl who has to work...
Many medieval English verses associated with the birth of Jesus take the form of a lullaby, including "Lullay, my liking, my dere son, my sweting" and may be versions of contemporary lullabies. [5] However, most of those used today date from the 17th century.
