Those to whom grandmothers and mothers sang "Bayu-bayushki-bayu…" at night should not be explained what lullabies are. However, a generation is already growing up, which, before going to bed, turn on a night-light projector with a pleasant melody. But it's not the same even if the music is very good.
Russian folklore
By word of mouth, and nothing else, songs were passed, under which babies fell asleep. The obligatory "bye-bye" rhymes perfectly with "go to sleep." Sometimes "ai-lyuli" appears, which is also wonderfully woven into the rhyme. What is a lullaby is clear from a simple example:
Ai-lyuli-lyuli-lyuli, The cranes have arrived, They sat on the gate, And the gate - creak-creak, Don't wake Vanyusha, Our Vanyusha is sleeping-sleeping.
Lullabies created a special protected world in which it is pleasant and not scary to go to sleep. Images of animals and birds, household items became fairy-tale characters, the beginning of dreams andrest.
"Kitty-kitty-kitty, cat, gray pubis, "Come, kitty, spend the night, rock our baby."
Slow rhythm, melodiousness put the children to sleep. To lull a small child, to calm him down is one of the important skills of a mother. It is believed that initially charms were sung before going to bed. Not without reason in such songs the name of the child was necessarily mentioned.
Undoubtedly, the presence of the mother, her calm, measured singing has the best effect on 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 learning the world, sometimes worrying and crying unnecessarily, lullabies are a promise of kindness, care, reliability coming from elders.
Bayu-bayu-bayinki, I will buy Vanya felt boots.
I'll put it on my legs, let me go along the path.
Lullabies are an appeal to a small child, to his soul. Of course, in order to simply put a child to sleep, it is enough to simply pronounce “Shhhhhhhh…” measuredly and melodiously, but he gets something more - the mother’s or nanny’s motivation is much more interesting: the song contains a simple, but very important plot for life, which sets you up for the right behavior and a correct understanding of worldly foundations. Who we love, who we fear, what we dream about - the lullaby tells everything.
In the most charming way, the gray top from the most popular Russian lullaby was embodied in Yuri's cartoonNorstein "Tale of fairy tales". Who hasn't fallen asleep to the advice "Don't lie on the edge"? Lullabies are an amazing layer of folk culture, from which images native to everyone grow. As psychologists call them - the archetypes of consciousness.
Cinema classics
Movies remember the most lyrical and tender lullabies, 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 as I slept…" high up, someone spilled milk…" Circus, Foundling, Down Main Street with Band (and more) have memorable examples of this genre.
World Masterpieces
Images of mothers bending over the cradle are one of the artists' favorite themes. It is interesting to trace from the paintings of the masters what was customary to do while sitting by the crib - knitting, sorting out something, just admiring the child, or, perhaps, falling asleep from fatigue. And one would like to think that in some of the wonderful paintings mothers sing lullabies.
Great musicians appreciated this folk genre and created their masterpieces based on it. Everyone knows Mozart's lullaby in the Russian version as"Sleep, my joy, sleep." Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and other composers have written beautiful lullabies.
Lullabies in poetry
Russian poets, who knew perfectly well what a lullaby was in the work of the people, left a great legacy: the researchers counted at least five hundred poems written in this genre by the best authors.
An interesting fact is given by philologists about the poems created by M. Yu. Lermontov, A. N. Maikov, which are not only a literary asset, but also turned into folklore. For more than a hundred years, their lullabies have been circulating among the people.
