Lullabies

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French nursery rhyme

children's song

aria from the opera Porgy and Bess, composed by George Gershwin, lyrics by DuBose Heyward

song by Phil Collins

song composed by Johannes Brahms

French folk song

1968 song by The Beatles

Christmas carol about the massacre of the innocents

1843/1844 composition for piano by Frédéric Chopin

traditional Welsh lullaby

song

Welsh song

Ukrainian traditional song

compilation album

A is "a musical composition usually in time that resembles a lullaby". Otherwise it is typically in triple metre. Tonally most berceuses are simple, often merely alternating tonic and dominant harmonies; since the intended effect is to put a baby to sleep, wild chromaticism would be somewhat inappropriate. Another characteristic of the berceuse, for no reason other than convention, is a tendency to stay on the "flat side"; noted examples including the berceuses by Chopin, who pioneered the form, Liszt, and Balakirev, which are all in D.

1838 cradle song by Mikhail Lermontov

poem by Matthias Claudius

song composed by Richard A. Whiting

Christian lullaby

English nursery rhyme and lullaby

sacred Song with lyrics by Paul Gerhardt

4 songs by Igor Stravinsky (1915)

Yiddish song

traditional lullaby

song