The Book of Lullabies: Wonderful Songs and Rhymes Passed Down from Generation to Generation for Infants & Toddlers

by John M. Feierabend (Editor)

Including the text and musical notation of 80 lullabies that have withstood the test of time, this book will inspire joy, and laughter in infants and toddlers. The book features songs in English as well as in Japanese, Russian, Yiddish, Spanish, French, German, and several other languages, with English translations. Favorites such as Brahms' "Lullaby," "Hush, My Baby Don't You Cry," "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," and "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" are just a sampling of the numerous multilingual, multicultural soothing songs that lull children to sleep.

Genres: Music

112 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2000

About the author

John M. Feierabend is professor and chair of the music education division at the Hartt School of the University of Hartford in Connecticut.

Reviews

[Jennifer]

Would be more useful with a cd accompanying it.

[Bonnie Tesch]

There were a lot that seemed pretty, but the compiler made some strange and haphazard decisions with regards to whether to translate and/or transliterate, and whether to acknowledge sources. There was no pattern.