Lullabies exist in almost every culture in the world. While they relate to the world of childhood, they also evoke the privileged relationship established through music between an adult and an infant. The lullabies presented here were recorded at different times and come from eighteen countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and America. They share certain musical characteristics that can be identified from one piece to another: simple melodies, a sequence of short patterns repeated several times in succession, an overall melodic contour following a descending line.
- A1 Ukraine Lullaby
- A10 Haiti Lullaby
- A11 Canada Loving Song Composed For A Child
- A2 Taiwan Lullaby
- A3 Armenia Lullaby
- A4 Lithuania A-a A-a Mažulyte (“Ah, Ah! My Little Girl”)
- A5 Portugal Song To Rock
- A6 Ireland An Irish Lullaby
- A7 Spain Songs For Cradle
- A8 Solomon Islands Lullaby
- A9 Algeria Lullabies
- B1 Greece Come Now And Sleep My Child
- B2 Canada Ho Ho Watanay
- B3 Rwanda Kamananga
- B4 United States Go To Sleep
- B5 France Nelli Monti Di Cuscione (“In The Cuscione Mountains”)
- B6 Georgia Lullaby
- B7 Balkans A La Nana Y A La Buba (“To The Grandfather And The Grandmother”)
- B8 Romania Cradle Song
