Those who have grandmothers and mothers hummed for the night “Bai-bayushki-bayu ...” should not explain what lullabies are. However, a generation is already growing up, which before bedtime includes a nightlight projector with a pleasant melody. But this is not the same, even if the music on it is very good.
Russian folklore
Word of mouth, and no other way, passed songs under which babies fell asleep. The obligatory "buy-by" rhymes perfectly with "go to sleep soon." Sometimes ai-lyuli appears, which is also wonderfully woven into a rhyme. What is a lullaby is clear from a simple example:
Ai-luli-luli-luli,
The cranes arrived
They sat on the gate
And the gate is a creak
Do not wake you Vanyushu,
Our Vanya is sleeping, sleeping. "
Lullabies created a special protected world in which it is pleasant and not scary to go to sleep. The images of animals and birds, everyday objects became fairy-tale characters, the beginning of dreams and peace.
"Cat-kitten-cat, cat, gray pubis,
"Come, cat, spend the night, swing our little one."
A leisurely rhythm, melodiousness put the children to sleep. Lulling a small child, reassuring him is one of the important skills of the mother. It is believed that initially, before going to bed, conspiracies-amulets sang. Not without reason in such songs the name of the child was necessarily mentioned.
Undoubtedly, the presence of the mother, her calm, measured singing in the best way affect the baby. What are lullabies? You can answer this question by remembering how the children themselves ask them to sing.
For children who are just mastering the world, sometimes they worry and cry too much, lullabies are a promise of goodness, care, reliability, coming from elders.
Buy-buy-buy-buy, buy Van boots.
I’ll put it on a pair of legs and put it on the road.
Lullabies are an appeal to a small child, to his soul. Of course, in order to just put the child to sleep, it is enough to simply say “Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh onc onc on. correct behavior and a correct understanding of the foundations of life. Whoever we love, whom we fear, what we dream of, a lullaby talks about everything.
In the most charming way, a gray top from the most popular Russian lullaby was embodied in the cartoon of Yuri Norshtein "Tale of Tales". Who did not fall asleep under the advice "do not lie on the edge"? Lullabies are an amazing layer of folk culture from which native images grow. As psychologists call them, archetypes of consciousness.
Kinoklassika
In films, the most lyrical and gentle lullabies are remembered, which not only pay tribute to the folk tradition, but also become the development of its unshakable foundations - melody, attention and love for a loved one, trust, wishes of happiness, peace, hope.
One of the most touching is the lullaby from the Hussar Ballad, written by T. Khrennikov: “Sleep, my Svetlana, sleep, how I slept ...” Many people fell in love with the Starship's song from “Little Red Riding Hood”: “It’s high there, who shed milk ... "In the films" Circus "," Foundling "," On the main street with an orchestra "(and not only in them) there are memorable samples of this genre.
World masterpieces
The images of mothers bending over the cradle is one of the artists' favorite themes. It is interesting to follow from the paintings of the masters what it was customary to do while sitting by the crib - knit, sort out something, just admire the child or, perhaps, fall asleep from fatigue. And I want to think that on some of the wonderful canvases, mothers sing lullabies.
Great musicians appreciated this folk genre and created their masterpieces on its basis. Everyone knows Mozart's lullaby in the Russian version as "Sleep, my joy, sleep." Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and other composers wrote beautiful lullabies.
Lullabies in poetry
Russian poets, who knew perfectly well what a lullaby is in the works of the people, left a great legacy: the researchers counted at least five hundred poems written by the best authors in this genre.
An interesting fact is given by philologists about poems created by M. Yu. Lermontov, A. N. Maykov, which are not only literary heritage, but also passed into folklore. For more than a hundred years their lullabies exist in a folk environment.