Lullaby
A lullaby (also sleeping or lullaby ) is a variant of the evening song, which is sung mainly children before falling asleep. It is distinguished in that it has a quiet and sleepy melody and is sung slowly.
In English it is called at the lullabies of so-called Lullabies. The term comes from the lautmalendem English " to lull " to equate the German lull. Their heyday had the lullabies, or Lullabies in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Well-known German -language lullabies
- Evening there will again
- In the evening I will go to sleep ( Evening Prayer from the opera Hansel and Gretel )
- ( Aba ) Heidschi bumbeidschi
- Soon it will be night again
- The moon has risen (Matthias Claudius )
- The little flowers, they sleep ( Anton Wilhelm von Zuccalmaglio according to Bethlehem born )
- It is scho same Dumpa ( Christmas song )
- Good evening, good night ( Johannes Brahms op 49,4 )
- Dear Moon, you go so silent
- Hear, O Lord, and let me tell you ( Nachtwächterruf )
- I ghöre it Glöggli ( children's sleeping anthem from Switzerland )
- Joseph, lieber Joseph mein ( Christmas song )
- My child, go to sleep
- La -Le- Lu, only the man in the moon watches, music and text by Heino Gaze, from the movie When the father with the son with Heinz Rühmann
- I'm tired, go to rest
- Müsle gang ga schlofa ( from Vorarlberg )
- Well rest all forests
- Oh, how well I do in the evening
- Sleep, baby, sleep,
- Sleep, my little prince sleep, a (Johann Friedrich Anton Fleischmann ( 1766-1798 ), was long attributed to Mozart. )
- Still, still, still ( Christmas song )
- Do you know how many stars are ( by Wilhelm Hey, first printed in 1837 in the appendix to the second volume of his Fables )
- Who has the most beautiful sheep
- Train in Slumberland (Roland Zoss, Switzerland )