Nursery rhyme

A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for young children in Britain and many other countries, but usage only dates from the late 18th /early 19th century. In North America the term Mother Goose Rhymes, introduced in the mid-18th century, is still often used.

History

Lullabies

The oldest children's songs of which we have records are lullabies, intended to help a child sleep. Lullabies can be found in every human culture. The English term lullaby is thought to come from "lu, lu" or "la la" sound made by mothers or nurses to calm children, and "by by" or "bye bye", either another lulling sound, or a term for good night. Until the modern era lullabies were usually only recorded incidentally in written sources. The Roman nurses' lullaby, "Lalla, Lalla, Lalla, aut dormi, aut lacta", is recorded in a scholium on Persius and may be the oldest to survive.

Many medieval English verses associated with the birth of Jesus take the form of a lullaby, including "Lullay, my liking, my dere son, my sweting" and may be versions of contemporary lullabies. However, most of those used today date from the 17th century. For example, a well known lullaby such as "Rock-a-bye, baby on a tree top", cannot be found in records until the late-18th century when it was printed by John Newbery (c. 1765).

Machali (tigress)

Machli, also known as Machali, (Devanagari मछली), Hindi for "fish"; Code name: T-16; born around 1997) is one of the most famous tigresses. She is an iconic figure of Ranthambore National Park in India. Machali is celebrated with titles such as "Queen Mother" of tigers, Tigress Queen of Ranthambore, Lady of the Lakes and Crocodile Killer.

History

Machali was born in 1997. Formerly, she was known as "Jhalara". It is a location of the park site where the tigress used to live. She was named fish due a fish-shaped mark that had been seen on her mother's face. Originally, the name Machali derived or passed from her mother to daughter who had a fork-like mark on her face. She gave birth to eleven tiger cubs, including seven females and four males. The progeny of Machali increased the tiger population in the park and made about 60% of tigers of her lineage. Also, she was keen to protect her cubs from threats including from male tigers and other animals.

She is famously known for her hunting skill and strength when killing a 14 foot long mugger crocodile. Due the crucial fight she lost a couple of canine teeth. A report says that India had earned about USD 10 million per year due to tourists attracted by the tigress for the last ten years. She won the "Lifetime Achievement Award" of Travel Operators For Tigers due to her contribution to conservation and tourist attraction that earned significant economy for India.

For Children (Bartók)

For Children (Hungarian: A Gyermekeknek) is a cycle of short piano pieces composed by Béla Bartók. The collection was originally started in 1908 and completed in 1909, and comprised 85 pieces which were issued in four volumes. Each piece is based on a folk tune, Hungarian in the first two volumes (42 pieces), and Slovakian in the last two (43 pieces). In 1945, Bartók revised the set, removing six pieces which used tunes which had been inaccurately transcribed or found not to be original folk tunes, and substantially changing the harmonisation of a number of others; the cycle, now of 79 pieces, was reissued in two volumes (of 40 and 39 pieces).

The pieces were written as student works, and progress slightly in difficulty through each half of the cycle. However, in modern times, some concert pianists (notably Zoltán Kocsis) have begun including some of them on their recital programs, citing their musical value even apart from their pedagogical origins.

See also

Mikrokosmos

Nursery

Nursery may refer to:

Childcare

Places

Music

Science

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Rani

Rani (Hindi : रानी) is a Hindu/Sanskrit Indian feminine given name(sometimes spelled ranee), which means "duchess", "queen" and "sovereign", the term refers to female form of princely rulers in Southeast Asia which applies equally to the wife of a Raja or Rana.

Rani (Hebrew: רני‎) is also a nickname of the Israeli masculine name Ran, which used also by female, which means "[He] sings".

Notable people named Rani