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.
In the singing of children's songs, beautiful melody, harmonious rhythm and sincere emotion can give children beautiful enjoyment and emotional edification. Children singing children's songs is the process of emotional leakage, from which they can experience and imitate the work and life of adults and verify their own experience and memory evolution. The common forms of children's songs are metaphor, personification, exaggeration, arousal, description, repetition and questioning.
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 basic characteristics of children's songs:
1, the content is simple: 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.
2. Short space: 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.
3. Vivid language: The spread of children's songs is largely achieved through games, so it is required that their works are suitable for chanting and can be coordinated with the game process, and they must show a distinct sense of music and rhythm.