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To return to Handlebars for babies
Nowadays it is known that the music is the most important stimulus for the emotional and intellectual development of our babies. As soon as possible let's communicate them with the biggest music there will be his benefits. There are studies that they prove that if a mom listens to certain type of music when it is pregnant, on having been born, the baby will recognize it as to the voice of his parents, this will help it to relax and to trust in his environment that him is immense and unknown.
The music for babies and the rhymed games in general favor the language development, the baby will learn words and new expressions, and it even is capable of repeating and of memorizing in his half language or language of rag, simple heaps, short strophes of songs, small series.
The musician also encourages the capacity of attention, the concentration, the imagination, and the development psicomotor, since a lot of music for babies includes movements sequence while the song passes or the ditty is recited, and this is what makes it precisely more entertaining.
The music for babies is a juicy food to satisfy the desire of learning that they have the smallest, they are like sponges, very curious and receptive, they like to imitate the adults. They enjoy very much repeating, with us and for us, the strophes and the gestures that they have learned.
The music for babies and children reinforces the tie with the parents. Why is it a space of game and creativity to share. Also in many songs the physical contact intervenes: tickling for the whole body, caresses in the hands, swinging in the lap of mom or dad, etc. Finally, the music for babies contains a big affective load.
To the babies it fascinates the music from very small. The heaps and the poetry also. But what really seduces the baby and to the child it is to share moments with his parents.
When the baby is very small the favorite music is the soft and lulling one, like the lullabies, that resemble the maternal belly to him for the calmness to which they take it with the melody. These lullabies exist in all the cultures of the world, and they are always quite similar in his tones; what it changes is the letter that the mother sings (although there are always affectionate tunes and of protection). An example of lullaby is the following one:
” Arroró my child, arroró my sun,
Arroró piece of my heart
This pretty baby does not want to sleep
It closes his ojitos and opens them again
This pretty baby who wants to sleep
And the crafty sleep does not want to come
This pretty baby who was born night
They want that they lead it to walking in car
This pretty baby who was born day
He wants that they take it to walk in tramcar
Missis Santa Ann why does the child cry
For an apple that has got lost him
Come to yourself you to my house I will give you two
One for the child and other one for you
Arroró my child ….”
When the baby is a little bigger the songs that they prefer are those who fulfill these conditions:
“Sack I make a manito dance,
I close it, open it and keep it again
I extract another manito make her dance,
I close it, open it and keep it again
I extract two manitos make them dance,
I close them, open them and keep them again”
Accompanying the song on the hands.
Accompanying with the palms, the smallest babies love this.
“Fat pancakes, mom gives me the nipple
Pancakes and tortones, dad gives me bonbons”
A type of songs for babies that more catches the child is the one that brings different movements that the mother prints his cuerpito. This can last beyond the baby's age, if your son finds satisfaction great in the movements and in the interaction when he is a baby. Here we bring an example of a song with swinging or trot on the knees of the adult, who is already an outstanding figure.
“Sawdust aserrán the beams of Saint John
They ask that they do not give bread to him, ask that cheese they give him bone
And they cut the neck”
To accompany the song balancing the baby backwards and ahead. With the baby in the knees, and on having finished the song, when it names to the neck, to do to him cosquillitas in the neck, this provokes many laugh to them.
Also we have the song of the small horse. With the baby in the knees to make it go first to the step, then to the trot, to finish in a rapid gallop, to name the baby in the song, for example:
“In a gray small horse Joaquín went away to Paris,
To the step, to the trot, to the gallop, gallop, gallop …”
The songs with rounds, like “The bluffer”, or the "Rice pudding", are successful in children but also in babies. The songs that have simple language, with very pronounced heaps and in which it predominates over the repetition of words or strophes, as for example:
“The one that wants to swim a little bit like a duck like a fish
That extracts the shoes as I extracted them to myself
To the water broke, broke, without the shoes, ducks
To the water broke, broke, to the water fish”
The songs that they speak about things that know or that are learning, like the parts of the body, the numbers, or the animals. As for example
“In the battle of the warming
It was necessary to see the fury of the rider
Rider, to the load, with a hand
In the battle of the warming
It was necessary to see the fury of the rider
Rider, to the load, with a hand, with other one, with the two … …”
And it begins again, always adding a part of the body, moving in time of the music, and the song ends up by waving the whole body, having named to every part of the same one.
The ludicrous and meaningless songs, whenever they are very rhythmic and musical also they attract babies' attention. Here it is where there is place so that the mother improvises with her own creativity. The traditional songs, the songs that it was we who liked of children, let's rescue them of our memory and let's enjoy them with our children.
The name of a composer of music for babies that is exceptional is Maria Helen Walsh., and it has already being successful for three generations, all of us are fascinated by the ingenuity of his letters and the sticky of the melodies.