LULLABIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MUSICAL ABILITIES OF CHILDREN FROM THE EARLIEST AGE

Abstract

In this article I will introduce my new children's book "Lullabies for Children" - illustrated and including references to recordings of the music. The melodies are created in accordance with the available knowledge in music psychology and music therapy for music with a relaxing effect, they are also pursuant with modern methods of developing musical abilities. Such a book is necessary, on the one hand, for parents who, already in the first days of a little man's life, are faced with the problem of building a certain regime of wakefulness and sleep for him. On the other hand, listening to the melodies, the pitch hearing, metrorhythmic sense, dynamic and timbre hearing begin to be stimulated in the child from the earliest age. Due to the purposefully created chants and instrumental accompaniment, the child quickly becomes receptive to smaller and smaller differences in the pitch of the sounding tones, to a variety of metrical pulsations, to varying strength of sound, to characteristic rhythmic groups, timbres. Listening to melodies accompanied by various musical instruments, which is an active musical activity for the earliest childhood, accelerates the development of musical abilities, and according to numerous studies, musical
activities develop not only musical intelligence, but also intelligence in general. The aim of the study is to prove the effectiveness of lullabies on the development of the child's musical and general intelligence. The main method of the study is the theoretical analysis of melodies - intervals, scale structures, metrorhythmic organization, timbre and dynamic characteristics. References to research on perceptual abilities, specifically the perception and differentiation of sounds in the earliest childhood, were also used as methods. Addressing parents at the beginning of the book, I describe various ways in which it can be used to diversify everyday life and build a creative attitude in the child. Each of the illustrations, which I also composed myself, based on photo collages, is related to the title and the character of the melody it depicts. If the parents wish, they can create stories based on the images, and the child, when he is able, can also participate in composing the story. The collective creative activity of parents and child not only brings joy, but also develops the inventive abilities and creative thinking of the little person. The book also contains the note text of the melodies. This is useful for parents who are musicians, and subsequently, if interested, the child can also try to play them. In this sense, my main recommendation to parents is to take full advantage of the diverse possibilities that the book provides. The first listener of the lullabies and at the same time the owner of the first copy of the book is my grandson. He is now 5 months old but has been listening to the chants since six da ys after birth. So far, the melodies are successfully lulling him to sleep, he also looks at the printed illustrations. How he will develop his musical abilities, whether he will use them in the future, as a professional musician, whether it will be necessary to write a second book of illustrated melodies that will diversify the child's free time, serve for
entertainment and education, we have yet to find out.