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Russian folk songs for young children

This publication continues the line begun by the collection “Your First Songs” and associated with the publication of Russian folk songs for children's choirs. If the songs included in the first collection were exclusively single-voice and had piano accompaniment, then this release includes folk samples designed for polyphonic performance and mostly without instrumental accompaniment. In addition, the previous collection was addressed to children of preschool and primary school age, and the new edition is intended for both junior and senior schoolchildren. The main goal pursued by the compiler is to provide choirmasters working with children with a highly artistic repertoire that will help develop such important skills in the choir as the ability to sing in several voices and perform works without instrumental accompaniment.

In the collection you can find a number of treatments that have already found wide application in artistic practice. These arrangements belong to outstanding Russian composers who did a lot to promote folk music - N. Rimsky-Korsakov, A. Lyadov, Vik. Kalinnikov, wonderful masters of Soviet choral art - A. Sveshnikov, V. Sokolov and others. Most of the songs in this collection are published for children's choral performance for the first time, and many of them have been specially processed for this publication. These songs are selected from various folklore collections and represent the most diverse regions of Russia. Among the published samples there are very ancient tunes, songs of Russian antiquity and a number of modern melodies. In some cases, the text of the songs is shortened, local dialect expressions are replaced by generally accepted literary ones, individual melodies are transposed in comparison with the original sources into tonality convenient for children's performance. At the same time, taking into account the wide addressee of the collection, the compiler included arrangements of varying degrees of complexity, varied in genre and content: songs of the calendar, rituals, round dances, everyday songs, games, patriotic, lyrical, satirical and comic.

From the compiler 1. An old man 2. Oh, it’s raining outside 3. I’ll drive the tank 4. Before spring 5. And we sowed millet 6. A falcon flew 7. Through the wavy fogs. Words by A. Pushkin 8. Don’t fly, nightingale 9. How about a beloved mother 10. And borushka, pereborushka 11. Isn’t my dawn, dawn 12. Oh, you Grunya, you Grunyasha 13. How to be crazy about your godfather 14. Mosquito 15. Is the sparrow at home? 16. The mountains are steep, high 17. Shall I go, young one 18. As if by the ravine, by the ravine 19. You, curly white mountain ash 20. Sitting dozing 21. Pancakes 22. Sowing and weaving 23. On the mountain, on the mountain the roosters are whining 24. As it was on the bridge, bridge 25. Bunny on the hay 26. On the street there is a loon and a sandpiper 27. As in a field, a field of white flax 28. Spinning line. Folk words, arrangement by D. Martynov 29. My dear round dance 30. Don’t fly, nightingale 31. I sowed Lenka 32. I walk on the meadow 33. Oh, hops, my hops 34. The little bird disappeared 35. Cold, cold, cold well 36 You are my evening dawn 37. We drove up to the village 38. I didn’t sleep, didn’t doze 39. I myself am stroking the pegs 40. The color of the viburnum is white 41. Vanyushka is mine 42. Like on the sea, the blue sea 43. You chickens mine 44. Like we had on the Don 45. I walked around the market 46. You, Russia, you, Russia 47. How the cat got into the habit 48. Will I go, will I go out 49. Like in our little garden 50. I’ll sow quinoa 51 There was a birch tree in the field 52. I walk with the loach 53. You're an eagle, little eagle 54. What's on the sea 55. Our faithful, faithful well 56. Oh, you little mountains 57. In the valley, the meadow. Words and melody by A. Olenicheva 58. All fields, yes, and valleys. Words and melody by A. Olenicheva 59. Like the moon has golden horns 60. Like across the river. 61. Because of the forest, the dark forest 62. Down along Mother, and down the Volga 63. A young officer 64. Our well-worn path 65. I walked near the garden 66. Motherland 67. Slumber 68. In the pockets 69. Already you, little winds 70. The weather has risen 71. Oak tree 72. The starlings have arrived 73. A black ram lived with our grandmother 74. Lullaby. Music by A. Lyadov 75. Jokes 76. Wither, wither, stormy weather 77. Chernozem shrew 78. In a green forest 79. Blue-winged and blue-winged dove Processings performed by the following authors 1) Popov V. - 1,2,3,4 ,5,6,8, 10,11,12,30,31,32,34,35,36, 37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,46,47,53,54, 55 ,56,57,66,69,70,72,76,78. 2) Yurlov A. -7, 9, 13, 15 3) Abramsky A. - 14, 21, 25, 28 4) Abelyan A. - 16, 18, 22, 23, 24, 26, 45, 48, 52, 63, 67 5) Sokolov V. - 79 6) Boyko R. -64, 65 7) Sveshnikov A. - 68, 73, 74 Kalistratov V. - 75 9) Nikolsky A. - 78 10) Yaichkov D. - 60 11 ) Olenicheva A. - 58, 59 12) Kalinnikov V. -50 13) Lyadov A. -17, 19, 20, 27, 77 14) Kashperov V. -51 15) Rimsky-Korsakov - 62

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Russian folk songs lyrics for kids

There are a number of folk songs that are designed for the youngest age category of children.

These songs are kind of educational and developmental. They teach children a sense of rhythm, improve their mood, and can also teach counting, for example, or recognizing animal sounds.

Together with songs, it is easier for kids to get acquainted with the world around them, and it is simply more fun to do it.

By the way, if a child has difficulties in pronouncing words, then singing will be easier for him than just pronouncing words, phrases and sentences.

It’s not for nothing that some children learn to sing first and then speak.

Russian folk songs for children / Lyrics

Found 61 texts Russian folk songs for children

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Russian Folk Songs for Children

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