Find the writeups of some of the core musicians involved in the nursery rhymes recordings about their initial feelings towards the project. All writeups were written after the release of the first Nursery Rhyme Collection back in 2009.
You can hear all those musicians' actual studio performances on this interactive Musicans' website (PC requiered, won't run on mobile devices )
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In this section you can enter some free children's online games related to our nursery rhymes recordings. Please note that all games need a current Adobe Flash player installed, so they will only run on a PC or Laptop.
Work on preschoolers' listening skills by identifying popular nursery rhymes/songs. Short game for short attentions.
Please have the child listen to these songs before playing: 1. Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes; 2. Finger Family; 3. This Little Piggy; 4. Pat-a-Cake; 5. Baby Shark; 6. I Love You (the Barney Song)
A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and many other countries, but usage of the term dates only from the late 18th/early 19th century. The term Mother Goose rhymes is interchangeable with nursery rhymes.[1]
From the mid-16th century nursery rhymes begin to be recorded in English plays, and most popular rhymes date from the 17th and 18th centuries.[2] The first English collections, Tommy Thumb's Song Book and a sequel, Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, were published by Mary Cooper in 1744. Publisher John Newbery's stepson, Thomas Carnan, was the first to use the term Mother Goose for nursery rhymes when he published a compilation of English rhymes, Mother Goose's Melody, or, Sonnets for the Cradle (London, 1780).[note 1]
A French poem, similar to "Thirty days hath September", numbering the days of the month, was recorded in the 13th century.[7] From the later Middle Ages there are records of short children's rhyming songs, often as marginalia.[8] From the mid-16th century they begin to be recorded in English plays.[2] "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man" is one of the oldest surviving English nursery rhymes. The earliest recorded version of the rhyme appears in Thomas d'Urfey's play The Campaigners from 1698. Most nursery rhymes were not written down until the 18th century, when the publishing of children's books began to move from polemic and education towards entertainment, but there is evidence for many rhymes existing before this, including "To market, to market" and "Cock a doodle doo", which date from at least the late 16th century.[9] Nursery rhymes with 17th century origins include, "Jack Sprat" (1639), "The Grand Old Duke of York" (1642), "Lavender's Blue" (1672) and "Rain Rain Go Away" (1687).[10]
The first English collections, Tommy Thumb's Song Book and a sequel, Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, were published by Mary Cooper in London in 1744, with such songs becoming known as 'Tommy Thumb's songs'.[11][12] A copy of the latter is held in the British Library.[13] John Newbery's stepson, Thomas Carnan, was the first to use the term Mother Goose for nursery rhymes when he published a compilation of English rhymes, Mother Goose's Melody, or, Sonnets for the Cradle (London, 1780).[14][15] These rhymes seem to have come from a variety of sources, including traditional riddles, proverbs, ballads, lines of Mummers' plays, drinking songs, historical events, and, it has been suggested, ancient pagan rituals.[3] One example of a nursery rhyme in the form of a riddle is "As I was going to St Ives", which dates to 1730.[16] About half of the currently recognised "traditional" English rhymes were known by the mid-18th century.[17] More English rhymes were collected by Joseph Ritson in Gammer Gurton's Garland or The Nursery Parnassus (1784), published in London by Joseph Johnson.[18]
There have been several attempts, across the world, to revise nursery rhymes (along with fairy tales and popular songs). As recently as the late 18th century, rhymes like "Little Robin Redbreast" were occasionally cleaned up for a young audience.[35] In the late 19th century the major concern seems to have been violence and crime, which led some children's publishers in the United States like Jacob Abbot and Samuel Goodrich to change Mother Goose rhymes.[36]
In the early and mid-20th centuries this was a form of bowdlerisation, concerned with some of the more violent elements of nursery rhymes and led to the formation of organisations like the British 'Society for Nursery Rhyme Reform'.[37] Psychoanalysts such as Bruno Bettelheim strongly criticized this revisionism, on the grounds that it weakened their usefulness to both children and adults as ways of symbolically resolving issues and it has been argued that revised versions may not perform the functions of catharsis for children, or allow them to imaginatively deal with violence and danger.[38]
It has been argued that nursery rhymes set to music aid in a child's development.[41] In the German Kniereitvers, the child is put in mock peril, but the experience is a pleasurable one of care and support, which over time the child comes to command for itself.[42] Research also supports the assertion that music and rhyme increase a child's ability in spatial reasoning, which aid mathematics skills.[43]
Introducing children to a variety of nursery rhymes can help them understand and learn about different sounds. This is an important part of developing those early literacy skills. Listening to different sounds in the environment as well as in nursery rhymes provides children with the foundations in helping them to read and write.
Look up the words to sing-along or make up your own rhymes to our instrumental versions! Songs and nursery rhymes are great for supporting children's learning and encouraging creativity, and our Bookbug app can help support you as you play and sing together.
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