I. Introduction to Children's Songs
Children's songs are short poems with folk songs, mainly for children. It is one of the oldest and most basic genres of children's literature. Children's songs are a kind of folk songs, which are found all over the country. The content mostly reflects children's interest in life and spreads knowledge about life and production.
The lyrics mostly use the method of comparison, and the rhyme is smooth and easy to catchy. The tune is close to the tone of language and has a brisk rhythm. There are solos and duets, such as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, which is recognized as the world's first children's song. Children's songs include folk nursery rhymes and poems written by writers. In recent years, Ye Peng New Children's Songs has a sense of the times. Another Fish Leong song was named Children's Song.
Second, the classification of nursery rhymes
Children's songs can be classified in different ways according to different standards. Children's songs can be roughly divided into two categories according to their functions: playing children's songs and teaching children's songs. Game nursery rhymes are a kind of nursery rhymes mainly for entertainment, which are easy to understand, catchy and close to life. Comparatively speaking, children's songs are more focused on education and guidance, so they are also called inspirational children's songs.
The characteristics of children's songs:
1, the content is simple
Children's songs come into children's lives with the mother's singing beside the baby's cradle. With the growth of children's age, from perception to imitation, they finally learn to sing children's songs and gain aesthetic feeling from them. The content of children's songs is often very simple and easy for children to understand, or simply describe and narrate events in a concentrated way, or express ordinary things with simple and interesting rhymes.
For example, Ye Sheng's children's song "Doll": "Doll/disobedient/feed her/refuse to open her mouth." In naivety, it expresses children's imitation and thinking about the life around them. At the same time, when children recite this children's song, they will immediately associate themselves with eating and know how to develop good living habits.
2. The space is short
Children's understanding of the surrounding things is still relatively simple, limited to word of mouth. Therefore, the length of children's songs should be short and exquisite, and the structure should be simple and uncomplicated. Common children's songs are generally only four or six or eight short sentences, but of course there are longer ones. Judging from the number of words in each sentence, there are three words, four words, five words, seven words and miscellaneous words. Three sentences, five sentences and seven sentences are basic sentence patterns.