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cradle song
noun
A lullaby.
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Ukolébavka = Cradle song / Smetana.
Dmitri Smirnov: Cradle song, op. 1, no. 5 / Grechaninov.
A piece of Moran's called "Cradle Song" memorializes his mother.
"The 'Cat's in the Cradle' song that this generation grew up with meant something".
His percussion, shouting and bonhomie always provided respite from Pavement's cat's cradle song structures and clever-clever lyrics.
He gave a quick nod, and she flipped to the next page in the score of Chopin's Berceuse, a cradle song.
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A pair of German cradle songs underscored Chanticleer's tonal richness.
To conclude, Miss Davis and her accompanist, Wayne San ders, offered Ned Rorem's "Three poems of Paul Good man," five Afro‐Cuban cradle songs and a group of spirituals.
We particularly like the "grim" (Warner's word) cradle songs from Germany collected by Hans Magnus Enzensburger in the 1960s: "Sweet little babykin, what are you whispering in the straw?
"Tales of the fire of Moscow, of the battle of Borodino... of the taking of Paris were my cradle songs, my nursery stories, my Iliad and my Odyssey," Herzen wrote.
But I'd like to think that their stories are somewhere in there, lurking in the underbelly of the cradle songs that mothers, caregivers and, today, many fathers still sing to their babies.
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