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Alla (Lullaby)
  • Manage No, Sortation, Country, Writer ,Date, Copyright
    Manage No EE00001350
    Country Uzbekistan
    ICH Domain Performing Arts
    Year of Designation 2011
Description Alla (Lullaby) is a song performed by a mother or babysitter when pumping a child; a special lyrical genre popular in folk poetry. It is one of the oldest genres of folklore.
Social and cultural significance Lyrics of Alla are created taking into consideration the mother's mood and condition in an impromptu manner. Mother enters into communication with her baby, who does not understand any word, with the means of words and music and tries to pacify the baby by expressing her dreams and expectations. Lullaby is a means of communication which can spiritually connect the mother and the baby. Meanwhile, it is the singing of mother that is healing for the baby. Infancy is the most suitable for laying moral foundations. Performing a lullaby song, which gives only a positivethe mother sets the child up for a certain behavioral way. Listening to lullaby songs, the born child seems to bathe in caress, the songs inspire a sense of confidence, protection from troubles. Lullaby songs remove anxiety, act calmly on the child. This is facilitated by a smooth melody, a rhythmic combination of word and movement (easy pumping). With modern trends in the development of problems with speech in children, lullaby songs help to form language hearing, and the child will begin to speak earlier and better, his speech will become more colored and emotional. Accompany the singing lullaby with a rhythmic patting on the tummy, back, pens, and you will develop a sense of rhythm in your baby. Lullaby songs have long been conspiracies based on the magical power of the influence of word and music, on their ability to calm, protect, guard. Caress is transmitted with a lullaby song, the child feels love, mother's tenderness. Our ancestors did not know the scientific explanation of the meaning of lullaby songs, but they felt it intuitively. Lullabies and conspiracies are the oldest songs of mankind, possessing great power of suggestion.
Transmission method Decreasing as a song. It is mainly transmitted in the families from mother to daughter.
Community Womens committees and families in Uzbekistan.
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Republican Scientific-Methodical Center for Organization of Culture Institutions Activity
http://www.folklore.uz

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